P.J. Harmer Email & Phone Number

• Work in two school districts to help with all aspects of communications• Helped develop, implement and run websites at both schools• Utilize social media at one district to convey message and news for school, launching Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, which was the first area school to utilize that platform• Write stories and releases and take photographs to showcase the school, as well as its students and staff• Design school-based publications and publishing, including special programs and brochures• Serve as a media liaison

• Founded, created and built a blog covering the sport of disc golf. • Lead writer for the blog and also oversaw a volunteer staff of nearly 10 other people. • Wrote, photographed, edited, and researched posts about one of the fastest-growing sports in the world. • Mixed journalism-style stories with results, photos, contest, giveaways, columns, opinion pieces and video.• Edited copy, formatted and did all the technical work for the blog, which averaged about 18,000 page views per month.

Milford, Ny

• Action and studio photographer at a 22-field baseball complex that draws 104 teams per week• Edit and process images on a daily basis• Interact and work with customers to help them with purchasing or requesting specific images

Cobleskill, Ny

• Write press releases and stories as needed on an as-needed basis• Work with members of the staff to research story ideas

Newspapers and publications I have freelanced for include: Press & Sun Bulletin, 2011, 2013Oneida Dispatch, 2010The Dispatch (N.C), 2010New York Daily News, 2003 Dallas Morning News, 1997-2002 Connecticut Post, 2003Asbury Park Press, NJ, 2003 The Daily Herald, IL, 2002-03 Scranton Times Tribune, PA, 2002The Reporter, Walton, NY, 2002 New Britain Herald, CT, 2002 Boston Herald, 2001NJCAA magazine, 1999-2004

Oneonta, Ny

• Covered events and wrote stories on a daily basis and handled a large quantity of phone calls nightly for a 6-day daily with a circulation of about 17,000.• Designed between 2-5 pages on a daily basis for an award-winning sports section.• Worked as a photographer, in news and sports.• Covered the Oneonta Tigers (short-season Single-A minor league team for Detroit) for 6 seasons.• Served as a trainer to the staff for the introduction for the newspaper’s new layout/content management system in 2006.

Delhi, Ny

• Planned, developed and taught freshman composition classes at a two-year state school.• Evaluated students and helped them improve on their writing and studies.

• Wrote several stories weekly for a group of newspapers in Connecticut.• Covered sports, wrote feature stories, and took photographs.

• Wrote press releases and contacted media outlets for events and functions at the university as a student assistant. • Worked on feature-length stories for the University alumni magazine, "Perspective."• Covered events for the school's newsletters.

• Served as the organization's first public relations director. • Designed and created the first website for the organization. • Wrote media releases for varied local media to help expand the New York ASA and to report on tournament results.

Master'S Of Science, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Co-founder and co-editor of a magazine for graduate students.

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism/Mass Communication

Activities and Societies: Student newspaper

Associate Degree, Humanities