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Education:

B.A. Mass Communications, Computer Science Minor; May 2000
Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana                              

Experience:

Online Content Specialist
February 2010 - Present
Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly Medical College of Georgia)
Augusta, Georgia

Part of a web content team that produces online content for university departments, systems and projects. As part of the name change team assisted with rebranding the entire site, redesigning the home page and switching to a new CMS. Responsible for enterprise-wide email communications and calendar development. Help with multimedia and web technology tasks and issues as needed. Train web publishers on our CMS

Spotted Coordinator 
August 2005 – February 2010
Augusta Chronicle Online
Augusta, Georgia

Responsible for content on the community photo site, Spotted.Augusta.com. Duties included managing photographer interns, budgeting for paid events and photo sales, arranging event access, editing galleries and comments, selecting photos to run in print and online, troubleshooting problems with the photo upload script and covering events.  

New Media Producer
October 2000 – February 2010
Augusta Chronicle Online
Augusta, Georgia

Part of a five-person team that produced online content for the AugustaChronicle.com and affiliated sites. Duties included web site maintenance and updates, CMS training, customer support, working with the newsroom, circulation, marketing and advertising departments on special projects, updating special sections and packages, photo and video coverage of events, attending daily budget meetings to better coordinate coverage with the newsroom and photo departments. I also handled the scoring database and produced content for for the award winning Masters site, Augusta.com. 

Professional Organizations:

  • National Association of Black Journalists (associate member)

Related Skills:       

  • Web content & branding standards
  • Strong knowledge of HTML & CSS
  • jQuery, Wordpress PHP, XSL
  • Extensive knowledge of PCs
  • Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Premier
  • Experience with various digital photo and video equipment
  • Coordinating social media campaigns
  • Management of user generated content

Awards/Honors:

  • 2006 Newspaper Association of America New Media Fellow
  • 2008 Maynard Institute Media Academy Fellow