•Create marketing and public relations strategies for a food documentary and education technology company•Oversee social media accounts, email marketing campaigns, digital advertising, video production and media list development•Secure coverage in national and local media using innovative pitches and relationships with journalists•Collaborate with website developers, graphic designers and app engineers to achieve client goals

•Selected to lead the company’s first foray into an urban Midwest demographic•Launched and marketed five websites covering seven neighborhoods on Chicago’s North Side•Increased month over month readership with more than 100,000 unique visitors in July using searchengine optimization, social media promotion and data analytics•Accumulated 4,300 Facebook fans and 2,650 Twitter followers over 11 months•Organized strategic marketing events to increase newsletter sign-ups, sales leads and communityengagement with brand recognition

•Wrote an average of 30 articles a week with accompanying photographs and multimedia elements•Managed up to nine freelancers and recruited more than 20 bloggers from the community•Helped establish a partnership between Patch and Fox 2 News that resulted in shared content with theTV station’s audience•Led committees on sports and political coverage strategies for the entire network of 24 websites•Served as regional photography expert, training colleagues on technique and copyright issues

•Conceptualize and photograph editorial, commercial and portrait assignments under tight deadlines•Clients include Slay Event Management and Consulting, the Philadelphia Eagles and Pedal the Cause

•Trained six teenagers to produce newspaper-quality images using DSLR cameras•Developed and implemented a marketing and social media plan•Created promotional video clips highlighting the nonprofit institution for potential donors

•Produced and edited still photographs, video and multimedia with an emphasis in sports•Collaborated fellow reporters and sources for long-term projects•Reported on a major state university and breaking news with accuracy

•Photographed London Fashion Week, Chinese New Year and the G20 Summit•Developed unique methods of storytelling with Microsoft Photosynth, AP galleries and quizzes