Professional history

Centrifuge Brand Marketing, lead copywriter

Responsible for writing marketing collateral, including copy for websites, social media channels, email campaigns, brochures, sales folders, trade-show booth graphics, direct mail, video scripts, and other material on demand. Also responsible for brainstorming marketing plans, slogans, mottos, and names for companies as well as copy editing all material produced in-house.

Erikson Institute, director of audience engagement and content strategy

Primarily responsible for overseeing Erikson Institute's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts, including implementing Marketing and Communications strategy, creating Facebook and Twitter ads, writing all posts, taking photos, shooting video, scheduling, and retrieving and analyzing social metrics. Also responsible for writing stories, marketing materials, and digital newsletters; copy editing print and online content; and executing search engine optimization.

Chicago Tribune, digital news editor

Responsible for writing stories, sidebars, informational graphics, timelines and other material for chicagotribune.com; selecting, editing and preparing content for chicagotribune.com, including writing headlines, writing captions and rewriting when necessary; using Chicago Tribune's Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus channels to promote content and coordinate promotion with Tribune sub-accounts.

RedEye, web editor

Responsible for writing daily digital features; coordinating and planning the daily, weekly and monthly content schedule; implementing the digital strategy for redeyechicago.com; overseeing a group of freelancers, reporters and photographers to carry out the day-to-day content of the site; retrieving and analyzing traffic data for redeyechicago.com; and creating content such as photo slideshows and videos.

RedEye, sports editor

Responsible for writing daily features for the print and digital edition; overseeing daily content for RedEye's sports section, in print and online; directing staff reporters and freelancers; and editing content. As sports editor, created RedEye sports' accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Tumblr.

RedEye, copy editor

Responsible for copy editing print and digital editions, including rewriting stories, writing headlines, writing captions and fact-checking; writing and contributing to daily features.

Elgin Courier News, copy editor

Responsible for copy editing stories, including rewriting copy, writing headlines, writing captions and fact-checking; designing the newspaper's national and local pages.

RacingOne.com, associate editor

Responsible for writing stories, overseeing freelancers, copy editing stories, writing headlines and posting stories on RacingOne.com.