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Resume

Work Experience

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh

President | June 2022-present
Unit Chair | November 2021-June 2022
Unit Delegate | 2015-2021

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Interaction Designer | November 2014-present

Work with reporters, photographers, and editors across the newsroom to create, design, code, and publish award winning story presentations and project sites.

Use a variety of programming languages such as Angular, jQuery, JSON, PHP, mySQL, among others, to build data widgets and displays to enhance individual stories.

Design and create internal newsroom tools to assist in reporting and story creation. Newsroom tools can range from front end user interfaces to add rich content to our core website, to back end tools to give more granular control to the user.

Design and create internal newsroom tools to assist in reporting and story creation. Newsroom tools can range from front end user interfaces to add rich content to our core website, to back end tools to give more granular control to the user.

Research and design stories from start to finish. Research includes archival photographs, story ideas, open government data, business data, etc.


WQED Multimedia

Web Developer | October 2011-November 2014

Used PHP, Javascript, jQuery, HTML 5 and CSS 3 to maintain, build and upgrade WQED.org, which received an average of 85,000 page views and 55,000 unique visitors per month. Led the migration of WQED.org from HTML 4 to a responsive, modern layout.

Worked in Wordpress to build and maintain the first digital downloads shop for WQED. Managed the digital download assets and worked within the organization to train others to build our catalogue of downloads.

Produced, shot, and edited parts of the Pittsburgh Innovators Series, which featured different startups and indivduals working in new fields in Pittsburgh. Utilized handheld camcorders, iPhones, and Adobe Premiere to produce the 15-part series.

Took part in a year long strategic planning process to map out the next five years of the company, sitting on the New Media, Metrics, and Innovation Committees.


Pittsburgh Penguins

New Media Intern/Game Night Entertainment Staff | January 2011-April 2012

Worked as a member of the In-Game Entertainment team, managing multiple in-arena video board games played with fans during intermissions and media timeouts.

Worked in the NHL Content Management System producing photo galleries, news stories and feature stories to be viewed on the most visited NHL team website in the United States.

Education

Slippery Rock University

Communication, Concentration in Emerging Technology and Multimedia | May 2011
WSRU-TV | President, Station Manager
The Rocket, student newspaper | Web Editor, Contributor

Programs + Languages

Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign
Affinity Designer, Sketch, InVision, Wordpress, Drupal, PHP, jQuery, Javascript, AJAX, SQL, LESS, XML, JSON, Angular

Awards

National

Associated Press Sports Editors

Pulitzer Prize

Tree of Life coverage | 2019 staff award
Coverings | 2020 finalist

Wilbur Awards

Editor & Publisher EPPY Spotlight Award

Associated Press Media Editors

Local

Golden Quills

 
Preparing for Chemical Valley | Multimedia Presentation
 
World Power | Digital Business Story
 
Pirates Classical Walkup | Digital Feature Story
 
Cuba: Behind the Facade | Digital Enterprise Story
 
WQED Pittsburgh Innovators Series* | Digital Business Story

*An update to WQED.org has broken some of this site

Keystone

 
Night Shift | Feature Story

Robert L. Vann Media Award

 
North Braddock: Treasures Amid Ruins | Digital Presentation
 
Life on the Hill | Multimedia Presentation