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Jackson, Mississippi, United States

+Manages a team of 12 communications professionals, including public information officers, digital specialists, graphic designers, videographers/photographers and administrative staff. +Leads the agency's expansive content strategy, running monthly content meetings with a goal of keeping multi-platform content organized, informative, fresh and optimized.

+Oversees all aspects of MDOT's internal and external digital communications footprint. +Sets the agency's overall social media strategy and supervises the Social Media Strategist.+Spearheads the agency's content strategy, including running the division's monthly content meetings.+Collaborates with MDOT's Information Systems Division on maintaining the.

Jackson, Mississippi Area

+Oversaw robust social media program that boasts over 245,000 followers including MDOT properties, the executive director and the three-member elected transportation commission. +Worked with the public information department to provide a response to every inquiry received on social media.+Spearheaded disaster response efforts on social media and other.

Ridgeland, Mississippi

+Helped spearhead the agency's content marketing efforts through numerous blogs and social media posts. Utilized knowledge of WordPress CMS and Google Analytics +Conducted comprehensive industry/market research that helped form the background of proposed strategic branding and digital recommendations for a key client +Increased my knowledge pertaining to.

Oxford, Mississippi

+Worked as a research assistant on a comprehensive policy scan of public policy programs and organizations working on family economic security and asset building policies. +Set up and conducted interviews with 13 leaders in Mississippi organizations who deal with family economic security and asset building. Wrote summaries of these interviews. +Wrote two.

Ridgeland, Mississippi

+Worked on a team that handled large-scale hardware rollouts for two sizable school districts located in Central Mississippi. Contributed to logistics, hardware prep, deployment, and troubleshooting +Worked on a team that handled software upgrades —including Microsoft Office Suite — for a sizable law firm in Central Mississippi. Troubleshot various.

Oxford, Mississippi

+Served as the sports editor of The Daily Mississippian, official student newspaper of The University of Mississippi +Hired and trained a staff of 10 reporters, beat writers and columnists +Created a weekly sports schedule with an emphasis on fresh and engaging content+Wrote sports news, game stories, features and columns. Occasionally contributed to news.

Jackson, Mississippi

+Served as a sports intern for The Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi's state-wide newspaper+Wrote sports news, features and game stories. Occasionally contributed to news +Worked as a beat reporter covering the Mississippi Braves, the Class AA affiliate of the Atlanta Braves

Oxford, Mississippi

+Covered college football recruiting, men's golf, men's tennis and men's and women's track and field/cross country as a freshman +Worked the coveted Ole Miss football beat as a sophomore and junior

M.A. In Integrated Marketing Communications, 4.0

Activities and Societies: graduate assistant to Dr. Samir Husni, founder and director of the Magazine Innovation Center

B.A. In Journalism, Print Journalism, Major Gpa: 3.86

Activities and Societies: student senator, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College; inductee, Kappa Tau Alpha (journalism and mass.