Résumé
Work Experience
Editor
4/2008 - Present • Visalia Times-Delta, Visalia, CA
- Created a supplemental quarterly targeted publication for Visalia’s daily newspaper, focusing on downtown Visalia.
- Generate story ideas, report, design and coordinate photography for the 8-page tabloid-sized section.
Radio host/programmer and volunteer
10/2007 - 4/2008 • KFSC-LP 94.1 FM, Visalia, CA
- Hosted, produced, edited and scripted weekly radio show about the U.K. culture.
- Recorded interviews with overseas guests over Skype, mixed in music from the U.K., then edited the show in Adobe Audition.
- Helped nonprofit low-power radio station create website, raise funds and organize events.
Copy editor
5/2004 - 12/2007 • Visalia Times-Delta, Visalia, CA
- Helped proofread, select stories, edit, write headlines and lay out pages for Visalia’s daily newspaper.
- Designed broadsheet pages and section fronts on deadline, including the front page.
- Uploaded paper to web and managed web content through Saxotech / Publicus.
- Shot, edited and uploaded weekly entertainment videocast for two months.
Editor in chief
4/2004 - 1/2005 • Fusion Multimedia, Visalia, CA
- Led content and design, managed staff, edited and proofed submissions, coordinated writers and photographers for bimonthly local youth magazine.
Editor in chief
8/2002 - 5/2004 • College of the Sequoias, Visalia, CA
- Managed staff, designed front page and news section, assigned and edited stories for weekly newspaper at College of the Sequoias.
Proofreader / Graphics pre-press operator
6/1999 - 8/2002 • Premier Color Graphics, Visalia, CA
- Proofread graphic designers’ work to customer specifications.
- Performed customer service and clerical duties.
- Promoted to pre-press operator; took designers’ and customers’ graphics and output them for press.
- Learned color separation and traps, press specifications, software and pagination.
Education
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA • 1/2008 - 12/2009 (expected graduation)
B.S. in Magazine Journalism, minor in Business • Cumulative GPA: 3.75
College of the Sequoias, Visalia, CA • 8/2002 - 5/2004
A.A. in Journalism • Cumulative GPA: 3.65
Skills
Quark Xpress • InDesign • Illustrator • Photoshop • Audition • FinalCut Pro • NewsEditPro • Saxotech / Publicus • Mac OS 9 and X • Word • FrontPage • HTML • Excel • Typing: 55-65 wpm