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Saint Petersburg, FL, US

Greater Tampa Bay Area

-Improv with co-detective and actors.-Host. -Audience interaction during the show. -Handle guest issues and sometimes unruly audience behavior.

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

-Assisted with color applications.-Mixed Redken formulas.-Provided shampoo and conditioner services. -Gave awesome customer service.

United States

• Pitch story ideas to editors.
• Conceptualize stories and photography for Watermark Online, The Weekly Challenger, Jackson Free Press, Folio Weekly, Arts Coast Magazine and Coast Guard publications.
• Wrote over 1,000 art, music, film and theatre articles.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Wrote five-seven AP Style stories a day for St. Pete Patch, Brandon Patch, Lakeland Patch and Bloomingdale-Riverview Patch
• Covered all beats for each: crime, breaking news, business, real estate, arts, politics, sports, health, events, statewide weekend-to-do, statewide good news stories and statewide wow houses
• In charge of photography for all stories
• Managed social media pages
• Created SEO headlines - Communicated with news team via Slack and Zoom

Jackson, Mississippi

• Planned newscasts that made the station the number one watched news channel in the area on Saturday mornings within one month
• Increased productivity and completion speed for the weekday morning newscasts by meeting hourly morning deadlines and obtaining accurate information by working effectively with news sources and creating a working.
• Created web content stories that ranked amongst the highest number of website hits for the station that included Butler Snow Law Firm Ponzi Scheme and Woman Killed Inside Nursing Home
• Created social media polls to drive increased social media engagement and conversation; poll metrics increased traffic 50%
• Created catchy headlines on social media status posts that increased reader clicks by 60% on the station's web stories

• Researched national and international college journalism competitions such as Hearst Journalism Awards for student entries.
• Ensured that competition guidelines were met, and chose the best-published works to submit to competitions.
• Communicated and networked with the Poynter Institute for information about competitions, and exposed the works of USFSP students to the competitive field.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Produced daily live radio traffic reports for Tampa's WLLD 94.1
• Generated pre-recorded traffic reports for iHeart Media Jacksonville stations
• Conducted aerial traffic shots for Fox 13 and Bay News 9

Multiple Duty Stations

• Maintained security for Crystal River Power Plant on daily boat patrols
• Rescued boaters in distress and provided disaster response to sinking vessels or grounded boats
• Planned and briefed boat crew on missions with zero casualties and two tons of contraband seized
• Charged with communications operations with vessels afloat; conducted trouble-shooting operations to ensure full operability

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

• Answered emergency calls
• Obtained required details for police and officer safety information from callers
• Communicated with Jacksonville Fire Rescue for medical calls and when officers needed their assistance
• Trained in suicide prevention and handled many suicidal threats by calming caller with law enforcement techniques

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Organized material, determined area of emphasis, and wrote stories according to prescribed editorial style and format standards.
• Solo anchored the 5-hour weekday morning traffic segments on four radio stations.
• Researched and wrote 2 pieces per morning for a national newswire service.
• Anchored news segments on two radio stations.

Jackson, Mississippi Area

• Broadcasted traffic reports for four radio stations.Board-op.
• Promoted events and businesses through live-remote broadcasts.
• Provided voiceovers for commercial spots.

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Cosmetologist in training.

Master Of Arts (Ma) Digital Journalism & Design, Digital Journalism

Activities and Societies: •Member of Omicron Delta Kappa; The National Leadership Honor Society •Vice President of Online News Association.

Ba In Mass Communications, Journalism

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