CURRENT WORK
TurnerVision
Supervisor
Supervisor - Todd Andrick
May 28, 1999 - Present
(888) 999-2515
Performs customer service, sales and accounting tasks for inbound calls
regarding satellite service.
Streetmail
Correspondent
Supervisor - Deirdre Terry
July 1999 - Present
Writes weekly e-newsletter about Southern West Virginia. Handles all
correspondences with readers.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
WV Sports.com
Corerespondent
Supervisor - Craig Shibley
July 1999 - present
Writes feature stories covering Southern West Virginia prep sports.
Managerial
Assistant Crew Leader/U.S. Census Burea
Fall 1998
Managed dozen enumarators, processed paperwork
Publisher/West Virginia Sports Focus
October 1997 - February 1998
Published weekly sports tabloid, working several independent writers
and ad sales reps.
Editor-in-Chief/The Concordian
Jan. 1996 - May 1997
(304) 384-5279
Produced weekly college newspaper, working with dozens of student writers
and administrators
Writing/Layout & Design
Copy Editor/Parkersburg News
April 1998 - August 1998
(800) 642-1997
Handled all pre-press, pre-plate activities of daily sports and news
pages. Developed story ideas and made daily decisions for content.
Sportswriter/Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 1997-July 1997
(800) 763-2459
Covered high school and college sports. Laid out pages in Quark Xpress. |
Stringer/Beckley Newspapers
Oct. 1994 - Jan. 1997
(800) 950-0250
Covered high school basketball, football, cross country and college
football. Wrote community features as well as a weekly home video column.
EDUCATION
Concord College
3.7 GPA; Communications Major, Graduated with a B.A.
degree - Cum Laude, 1997 Dept. Class Agent
West Virginia State College
3.7 GPA, 1992-1994, English Major; Intro. to Computers, Expository
Writing, Screenwriting, Technical Writing, Math Tutor.
Poca High School
1992 graduate; 17th in class; 3.7 GPA; A.P. English, Calculus, Accounting,
Spanish I, II & III, Speech, National Honor Society, Basketball Clock
Operator, Hi-Q captain.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Charleston Gazette Web Design
Updated daily website for state's largest paper.
Beckley Newspapers Internship
Worked full-time writing features for the sports section, learned paste-up
and pagination.
Television Commercial
Produced thirty second commercial for local restaurant that ran on
local TCI affiliate.
Campus All-Star Challenge
Competed at B.E.T./Honda's national finals.
Outstanding Contribution to Journalism
Received annual departmental award for contribution to the school's
newspapers, The Concordian. Including move to pagination and increasing
advertising.
Actor
Performed the role of Mr. Horn in the Concord College fall
production of the play Rain. |