Resume
work experience.
Freelance writer and designer
- Performed updates of content on multiple publication Web sites, optimized content for search engines and evaluated Web page analytics
- Managed and designed email marketing for multiple publication accounts
- Coordinated social media accounts and implemented marketing campaigns
- Produced multimedia content including photos and video for hyperlocal news site funded by the Knight Foundation and San Antonio Area Foundation
- Utilized social media for community building, aggregating news stories and linking content
- Trained interns and members of the community to use social media and create multimedia content
- Instructed two undergraduate Introduction to Mass Media Writing laboratory courses per semester
- Assisted new media professor Dr. Cindy Royal with Web Design and Publishing course
- Self-produced and edited multimedia content including videos, podcasts, blogs and photos for chooseorlose.com
- Created packages featured on Associated Press Online Video Network, MTVU, MTV Tr3s and MTV.com
- Established communication with various political organizations, activists throughout Texas successfully during project
- Awarded 2008 Emmy for Best Community Service Campaign for Think Web site, which featured Choose or Lose coverage
skills.
- Web design, graphic design, video production and editing, sound editing, digital photography, blogging, news writing, feature writing, copy editing
- Proficient in Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Soundbooth, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Soundslides, CSS, HTML
- Working knowledge of Audacity, Lightroom, Wordpress theming, Javascript
- Extensive knowledge of social media as a communication and networking tool
- Bilingual; speak, read and write in Spanish fluently
education.
Texas State University-San Marcos
- M.A., Mass Communication-New Media, 2009
- B.A., Mass Communication-Print Journalism and Political Science, 2007
