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◆ Co-lead a team of nine investigative journalists. ◆ Co-manage all promotable stories and major projects for the news department.◆ Field produce content for special station projects.◆ Duties include enterprising promotable investigative ideas, creating features for air, researching, field producing, field directing, interviewing and writing. ◆ Original content productions include docuseries 'The Evidence Room', documentary, 'Astroworld, Countdown to Tragedy', live field production 'The Bench' and several other documentary-style projects in the works.

Houston, Texas, United States

◆ Producer for the award-winning Investigative / Special Projects Department. ◆ Duties include enterprising promotable investigative ideas, creating features for air, researching, field producing, field directing, interviewing and writing. Original content productions include docuseries 'The Evidence Room', documentary, 'Astroworld, Countdown to Tragedy', live field production 'The Bench' and several other documentary-style projects in the works. ◆ Producer for consumer content with Investigator Amy Davis including the popular series 'DRAINED' where we address viewer water bill concerns.

Houston, Texas Area

Freelance writing and Freelance Video Producing-Conduct video interviews, edit video, and provide expert recommendations for video content-Write articles, blog posts, press releases, ghostwriting, and website content.-Shoot, produce and edit short videos for clients for social media or other various uses. These videos include "testimonials" with a news-style format.-Freelance video producer, including on-site for live events.-I also did extensive writing work for EDGY Labs, an SEO company. I learned a lot about how to create content for SEO and google search.

Houston, Texas Area

-Producer for the Investigative / Special Projects Department on a freelance basis when needed.-Duties include enterprising promotable investigative ideas, creating features for air, field producing, interviewing and writing.

Launched new production for the ABC owned, Live Well Network. "Deals - Live Well for Less" focused on saving people money. Job duties include managing segment planning, social media content, field producing, tease writing, and interviewing.

Houston, Texas Area

Producer of the M-F 6pm news on KTRK - ABC in Houston. Organized full content of show, including story selection, overseeing of reporters and story & tease writing.Editorial responsibilities include newsgathering, writing original content/stories, deciding daily news coverage, managing live broadcasts from the control room, writing anchor scripts, creating and executing a compelling newscast and pitching story ideas

Greater Boston Area

Produced fast pace 4pm M-F show. I also worked on several other special projects including Red Sox playoff coverage and the Olympics.

I started at WOAI when it was KMOL-TV! I was hired to produce the weekend evening newscasts. Later promoted to producing the 5pm weekday show. Other duties included field producing station specials.

I started editing video (tape!) for the morning show in 1997. I eventually worked my way up to producing the morning show and then the 5pm show. By the time I graduated from Lamar University (Dec 01), I was producing the 6 and 10 M-F newscasts. I am so thankful for small market television where you had to do every job!!