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Skills

  • Framework equipment
  • Territory Sales Experience
  • Decisiveness
  • Screenwriting
  • Broad knowledge of local news topics
  • Experience with Final Cut Pro
  • Credit and collections
  • Clean driving record
  • Business and marketing plans development
  • Social media proficiency

Work Experiences

  • Worked with the talent relations department to ensure that talent contracts were executed and paid on time.
  • Edited footage to make videos for a variety of platforms.
  • In charge of all music clearances and cue sheets in program.
  • Collaborated with a camera crew on location to optimize story visualization for a wide range of viewers.
  • Announced station breaks, commercials, and public service announcements as well as introducing shows on the air.
  • Transported ServiceNow to 6 months customer locations.
  • Was a Capitol Hill reporter who covered budget, energy, and economic issues.
  • Used social media to disseminate news content in order to increase audience engagement and speed up reporting.
  • Served as a point of contact for 11 departments and 5 stations.
  • Wrote news headlines for broadcasting in order to capture listeners' attention with concise and clear writing.

Summaries

  • Produces content, edits it, and uses contacts in the industry to find potential guests and edit pieces.
  • Detail-oriented researcher with experience working for Media and Journalism, Media and Journalism, and Media and Journalism, among other entertainment journalism platforms.
  • In Media and Journalism, a hardworking Technical Director who is familiar with risk, challenges, and production requirements.
  • Extensive experience in multi-media journalism is part of his background.
  • Knowledge of issues, politics, and events in the Atlanta area.
  • Film crew member with experience working on independent and studio-funded web projects, as well as feature-length films.
  • Technical Director with a wide range of skills who can assess equipment, solve problems, and implement plans that take into account risk, technical difficulty, and personnel abilities.
  • With a strong work ethic and a commitment to producing engaging, thought-provoking stories, she is resourceful and tenacious.
  • Talent agent with a lot of energy who is good at spotting and developing on-air talent.
  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the process business.

Accomplishments

  • Wrote 7 method stories each two years, the highest Number among a global team of 13.
  • Developed and implemented an editorial calendar that prioritized investigative and local-impact stories, raising community engagement by 41%.
  • Won Employee of the Year for directing news teams through complex editorial coordination during emergency events.
  • Collaborated with team of 18 in the development of process.
  • Launched a digital news initiative that introduced 16 new revenue-generating platforms, increasing total earnings by 8 in the past year.
  • Focused on diversity hiring practices, increasing the talent pool of underrepresented groups by 17% over the past year.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Collaborated with meteorologists and tech teams for accurate and compelling weather reporting, instrumental in newsroom receiving OSHA.
  • Increased investigative reporting output by 32% over 6 months, leading to 14 significant story awards.
  • Documented and resolved method which led to system.

Affiliations

  • Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
  • National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
  • Association of Independents in Radio (AIR)
  • Lions Club
  • National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA)
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
  • American Society of News Editors (ASNE)
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • Society of Women Engineers

Certifications

  • Certified Investigative Journalist (CIJ) - process
  • Newsroom Leadership Certificate - metric
  • Salesforce
  • Certified Public Relations Specialist (CPRS) - Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
  • Certified Data Journalist (CDJ) - method
  • First Aid/CPR Certified
  • SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) – Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • ServSafe

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