Project Manager – Wieck Media
September 2007 – February 2014
Work with Fortune 500 companies including: The New York Times Syndicate, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, American Honda Motor Company, Mercedes Benz USA, Hess Corporation, and Southwest Airlines.
Assist in handling press releases, photos and videos for client’s digital newsrooms. Handled some design work with CSS, HTML and various Adobe programs like Photoshop and Fireworks. Helped coordinate embargoed/time sensitive postings of releases, photos and videos for clients.
In May 2010, I became a Project Manager. I worked side-by-side with Baylor Health Care Systems in getting their newsroom launched (http://media.baylorhealth.com). I retained client relationship by maintaining conference calls and meetings for projects.
During the launch process, I organized, maintained and created tickets for developers to handle the back end coding of the newsroom. From there I handled the testing of the newsroom. I also added the client’s content from their old newsroom and organized it per their request.
In Oct. 2011, the Baylor Newsroom went on to win a PR News Digital award for Best Newsroom.
Other clients I support as a Project Manager include: Mercedes-Benz USA, Southwest Airlines, Mitsubishi Motors North America, Honda Automotive, HESS Oil, Australian Air Services, Australian Department of Immigration, ING-Direct (Australia), Institute for Public Relations, and the Arthur W. Page Society.
Previous positions held at Wieck include: Editorial Support and Assistant Editorial Manager
Data Clerk – Dallas Morning News
August 2007 – November 2009
Handled data entry for the Sports Department of the Dallas Morning News.
Communications Intern – WVU Foundation
August 2005 – June 2007
Wrote articles for Alumni magazine and helped assist with research-based projects to help coordinate various alumni events.
Assistant Sports Director – WWVU FM
September 2004 – June 2007
Assisted in coordinating a volunteer staff of 40 college students. On-air duties included a daily sports updated, hosted a weekly sports talk show, play-by-play and color commentary for soccer and basketball. Also worked with production staff to set up on-air promos for various sports related material. Conducted meetings and travel arrangements when needed.
Education
West Virginia University – 2007
Bachelor’s of Science in Journalism with concentration in Broadcast News