Visual Journalist

Senior Graphics Reporter, Graphics Editor, Multimedia Artist,

Designer and Illustrator

South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale

Visual Journalist, Senior Graphics Reporter

• Sole creator of 100+ full-page graphics on topics in the news and product work.

   Created more than 5,000 graphics and interactives.

• Responsible for concept, research, writing, illustration, design and online interactives.

Multimedia Graphics Reporter

• Built interactive maps, charts and graphics and established production procedures.

• Created video animations interweaving graphic animation, photos and video.

Management responsibilities

• Daily and project meetings: Identified visual options, shaped content and set schedules.

• Oversaw graphics for three South Florida county bureaus collaborating

   with 12 editors and 37 reporters.

• Managed graphics through staff reductions and shift of visuals toward online.

Social media and Online

• Established process for posting graphic content to sun-sentinel.com

• Presence on Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus.

• Contributor for Sun Sentinel Facebook “The Edge Multimedia,” 2009 - 2013.

• Blogged on graphics department’s visual site, site no longer maintained.

 

Adobe Creative Suite: After Effects,
Edge Animate, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Muse, Omniture, Photoshop. 
Microsoft Office applications, Corel Painter, Poser; QGIS; NewTek Lightwave 3D Mag+
Final Cut; VizRT for broadcast television, CCI Newsgate publishing system, P2P Content Management System, jQuery, CSS, HTML5, Javascript and libraries, Actionscript, D3js,
SVG, WordPress, Bootstrap, Leaflet.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Leadership training; Google for Media Summit; Adobe Create Now Tour; Chicas Ponderosa, women in digital news; Visualization and Infographics with D3.js, The Knight Center for Journalism; jQuery; Javascript; GIS; SEO training.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree

Illustration and Commercial Design,
Northern Illinois University

POSITIONS PRIOR TO 1998

6 years

Graphic Editor,

Designer, Illustrator

News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana

3 years

News Artist, Illustrator, Business Graphics Coordinator, Macintosh System Manager

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta

2 years

News Artist, Illustrator, Advertising Layout Artist

Herald-News, Joliet, Illinois