Curriculum vitae

Summary of professional skills and qualifications

  • Computer assisted reporting
  • Writing styles (AP, APA, ASA, Chicago)
  • Editing
  • Working under deadline
  • Web/online business
  • Fast learned
  • Well-sourced in media and government
  • Extensive knowledge of firefighting procedures
  • Public relations and public relations management
  • Public speaking/speaking in front of camera

Technical skills

  • Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, inDesign, and Premiere)
  • HTML, PHP, CSS
  • WordPress
  • Graphic Design
  • Page layout
  • Digital photography/photo processing

Awards and honors

  • National Headliner Awards (2011) — Shared second place in spot news category for May 2010 Boston-area water main break
  • Boston Globe Impact Award (2011) — Reported on Occupy Boston
  • Boston Globe Impact Award (2011) — Reported on a massive apartment fire, during which a child was dropped from a window to a firefighter below
  • Boston Globe Impact Award (2010) — Reported a unique angle on a rare 9-alarm fire in Boston
  • Emerson College Evvy Award (2010) — Outstanding News Story (Amy Bishop case/Boston Globe)
  • Boston Globe Impact Award (2007) — Reported on fire that killed two Boston firefighters
  • Inaugural Northeastern University Husky Leadership Award (2006) — Credited for helping end post-sporting event rioting on campus
  • Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Outstanding Communications Program Award (2005) — Honored for creating the top communications program out of more than 200 college chapters, which has since been modeled nationwide

Work experience

    City of Boston, Starting January 2012

  • Deputy Press Secretary to Mayor Thomas M. Menino

    The Boston Globe, Boston, June 2006 to January 2012

  • News Correspondent and later Staff Reporter
  • Produced content on deadline
  • Cultivated sources in government, police and fire, education and other avenues
  • Contributed to city, suburban, business, arts, food, technology, and automotive news
  • Staff position at one of the top American newspapers
  • Wrote nearly 1,600 news reports

    • Newbury College, Brookline, Mass., Jan. 2011 to present

  • Adjunct Professor
  • Teaching college courses
  • Instructing students in law, ethics, advanced writing
  • Teaching about multiple fields including journalism, advertising, and public relations

    • The Good Men Project Magazine, Boston, Feb. 2010 to April 2011

  • Web designer/Web editor
  • Helped launch a new lifestyle magazine online

    • BoMoms.com, Boston, June to July, 2008

  • Launch producer
  • Handled editorial and technical matters for New York Times Co. web product
  • Helped get a new project off the ground in a team environment

    • The Sun Chronicle, Attleboro, Mass., April to Sept. 2007

  • Online Services Manager
  • Website editor
  • Responsible for web presence of major suburban newspaper
  • Developed new progreams for a news source unfamiliar with doing business online

    • BlastMagazine.com, Boston’s Online Magazine, Jan. 2007 to present

  • Owner, editor
  • Manage daily business and editorial operations for 200,000-reader publication
  • Write, produce, design, and package daily and monthly content
  • Member: Online News Association

    • MFS Investment Management, Boston, Jan. to June 2006

  • Communications intern
  • Facilitated a variety of client and broker/dealer issues company-wide
  • Learned all aspects of the mutual fund industry
  • Ported this business knowledge into news reporting worl

    • ReviewCenter.com, New Haven, Conn., 1997 to 2003

  • Owner/editor
  • Started one of the early web-based technology news portals at age 14
  • Supervised more than 20 writers
  • Learned basics of web design, journalism, news writing, and business management

    • Yahoo! Geocities, Online 1996 to 1999

  • Community leader
  • Helped people make their own personal websites in the early days of the web
  • One of a select group of teenagers allowed to take part in the program
  • Emerged as an early leader with one of the largest companies on the Internet

Education

Emerson College, Boston

Master of Arts, Journalism, 2010

Northeastern University, Boston

Bachelor of Science, Criminal Justice, 2007

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, 2007