Earned The President’s Volunteer Service Award through AmeriCorps for creative/content writing and research assignments which include game design documents, extensive summaries of YouTube videos, books, and articles aiding design teams, and game screen captions.

Responsible for the research, analysis, writing, and editing of documents supporting grant proposals for Foundation Relations, Salvation Army, Chicago, IL. Topics included sheltering the homeless population, Englewood youth profile, and human trafficking.

Served as the in-house replacement for outsourced social media services. Responsible for developing, writing, publishing, and managing the monthly social media content calendar, social media content, the prospective student newsletter, the school newsletter and the semi-monthly blog. Interviewed staff, students, alumni and board members and researched background information. Analyzed industry practices. Responsible for communicating the organization’s responses to the public’s social media queries.

Used research, interviewing, writing, interpersonal, multitasking, scheduling and editing skills to meet daily, weekly and monthly article deadlines. Provided general assignment reporting and photo coverage of local news, community events, board meetings, businesses, political events, profiles, celebrity visits and lectures for print and online publication in the daily (M-F) paper and its special editions; the weekly papers: Jasper County Tribune, Prairie City News, Monroe Legacy; the quarterly Jasper County Living and the triannual Central Iowa Ag Mag. Edited copy as required. Provided monthly weekend on-call coverage for community events and emergencies.

Maintained full-time student status while working eight to twelve hours daily as the sole Administration Reporter for print and online issues of the Eastern Illinois University daily newspaper. Wrote daily articles on the activities, plans, challenges and issues of the university and its administrators. Scheduled meetings, interviewed and wrote about the university president, faculty senate, student senate, foreign speakers and various student events. Covered the weekly student senate during final semester.

Wrote general assignment stories.

Edited stories, wrote headlines, and paginated select sections.

Contributing writer to the Eastern Illinois University yearbook

Interacted with hundreds of guests daily, in-person, online and by phone, ensuring their satisfaction by providing solutions and resolving issues while adhering to corporate policies in an efficient and effective manner. Handled various ticket transactions and provided ticket problem reconciliation. Balanced cash register. (Summers only)

Contributed weekly freelance online articles in the 500-Words, The News, and The List categories of the national publication.

Contributed weekly articles in the 500-Words, The News, and The List categories of the national publication.

Operated point-of-sale computer system to sell and upgrade tickets, season passes and parking passes to an average of a thousand guests each week. Captured biometric data. Provided guests with park information, policies, and procedures. Balanced cash register. Featured in How to Bring a Friend Free at Six Flags Great America YouTube video. (Summers only)

Operated point-of-sale computer system to sell and upgrade tickets, season passes and parking passes to an average of a thousand guests each week. Captured biometric data. Provided guests with park information, policies, and procedures. Balanced cash register. Featured in How to Bring a Friend Free at Six Flags Great America YouTube video.