Collaborate with reporters and editors to conceptualize, develop, build, launch, enhance and maintain digital news and information products for the newsroom. Examples include interactive maps, a weekly drought update, searchable databases, interactive graphics and charts, and data research and analysis.

Work with reporters to develop data-driven stories, which have included stories about a dormant pipeline that may be reactivated to ship crude oil, California’s prison realignment law and the homeless population, and wealth and poverty along Highway 111. Help grow audience by using analytics data to develop features like the award-winning “10 Picks” series.

Collaborate with newsroom staff to cover news events and topics important to our audience, which have included numerous weather stories, live blogging and shooting video during President Obama’s visits, helping to interview celebrities along the red carpet, and live-streaming the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s annual Awards Gala for our website.

Developed a company-wide social media strategy to increase engagement with our audience and pageviews on our website. Managed and posted content on the U-T’s social media accounts, which included niche social sites like Foursquare and Plurk.

Monitored analytics data and social media metrics, which showed we increased our monthly visits from select social media sites from 65K to 450K. We also grew our combined Twitter followers from 7K to more than 34K, and our combined Facebook fans from fewer than 100 to more than 6K.

Worked with the marketing, advertising and editorial departments to build community connections while promoting the U-T’s brands. Initiatives included a dinner with Chargers reporter Kevin Acee, a Foursquare newspaper giveaway, weekly online chats, and a weekly social media business column.

Helped coordinate the development and management of community and extension websites. Helped create, design and launch sdBackyard.com, a website featuring user-generated content.

Helped the U-T build community connections by meeting with community members and promoting our brands at the fair and local festivals.

Created and published national, international and breaking news stories and multimedia packages for McClatchy Newspaper websites, which included The Sacramento Bee; The News & Observer of Raleigh, NC; and The News Tribune of Tacoma, WA.

Managed the daily production of the Insider, an N&O newsletter covering NC state government. Aggregated political news from across the state for about 600 readers, which included elected officials, state employees, lobbyists and journalists. Maintained the Insider’s calendars, agendas, listings and website.

Worked with producers, editors, writers and graphic artists to produce national, international and breaking news for CNN.com. Produced multimedia content. Helped write daily news almanac. Rewrote stories for CNN Mobile.

Produced and maintained the website content of an 80K-circulation newspaper. Trained colleagues in basics of online content production. Researched and wrote news stories, which included the weekly centerpiece for the technology section.

Helped create the Times’ first website. Helped archive news stories. Assisted reporters with research.

Took the following continuing education classes: "Multimedia Design" during the spring semester of 2007, and "Introduction to Multimedia" during the first summer session of 2005.