CAREER HISTORY
Pomona College, Claremont, Irvine, California
Assistant Director of Communications, Web Editor, January 2008 to present
-- Manage daily updates to web content for Pomona.edu
-- Write news briefs and features
-- Create and distribute staff and faculty newsletter
-- Load print magazine onto website
-- Collaborate on big-picture strategy for Pomona College's web presence
Freedom Interactive, Irvine, California
Content Producer, March 2007 to October 2007
-- Worked with 50-plus newspaper and broadcast websites to improve content and user engagement
-- Evaluated vendors for enterprise content solutions
-- Guided the implementation of new content products and solutions on an enterprise level
-- Acted as a corporate liaison for web editors in the field
-- Developed "best practices" for navigation, section nomenclature, site layout, web editorial workflow and product implementation
-- Assisted with SEO projects for all sites
Entrepreneur.com Inc., Irvine, California
Online Executive Editor, August 2003 to March 2007
-- Help to guide the editorial direction, voice and style of the top small-business website
-- Organize, schedule and archive more than 15,000 articles across 12 channels
-- Brainstorm, create, implement and manage new editorial initiatives
-- Create and manage content areas for major partners, including AOL, Yahoo! and MSNBC
-- Source content through freelance writers, in-house resources and partners
-- Collaborate with other departments to create online content and promotions
-- Write articles, blog entries, newsletters and other copy for all site areas
Managing Editor, January 2002 - August 2003
-- Maintained all channels, created special content areas for in-house and partner projects, and brainstormed and implemented new editorial content
-- Wrote and edited several newsletters, managed a stable of 20-plus freelance writers, and fulfilled content feeds
Articles Editor, January 2000 - January 2002
-- Developed, planned, assigned and edited all content for HomeOffice.com
-- Wrote articles for Entrepreneur.com and HomeOffice.com
Staff Writer, June 1998 - January 2000
-- Developed story ideas and wrote several monthly columns and features for all Entrepreneur publications
Editorial Assistant, November 1997 - June 1998
-- Wrote several columns and features for all Entrepreneur publications, and fact-checked articles
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in English
California State University, Fullerton
Entertainment Writing, 2006
Photoshop, 2006
UCLA Extension, Los Angeles
MISC WRITING
-- Contributing writer for Entrepreneur magazine and Entrepreneur.com
-- Contributing film reviewer for Home Media Retailing with more than 250 DVD reviews written since 2002
-- Listings writer for Flavorpill.net since 2005
-- Contributing editor for Plume-Noire.com