EXPERIENCE
News Director / Assistant News Director
KCRA-TV 3 NBC – Sacramento
2014–Current
- Lead daily news coverage across all platforms
- Re-imagine newsroom roles with digital-first mentality to execute cutting-edge cross-platform content
- Innovate graphics, studio ingenuity and newscast music through partnership with HTV graphics hub
- Developed and launched hour-long 10 p.m. news on KQCA
- Project manager for election coverage; provided content on 10 platforms in November 2016
- Served on corporate “jump team” to help manage WJCL in Savannah during wall-to-wall hurricane coverage
Executive Producer
KMBC-TV 9 ABC – Kansas City
2012–2014
- Increased ratings year-to-year for #1 10 p.m. newscast
- Launched and executed digital-only newscast to increase social interaction with viewers
- Project manager for field-anchored newscasts for station’s 60th anniversary music festival
Executive Producer
KOCO-TV 5 ABC – Oklahoma City
2009-2012
- Launched first 4:30 a.m. newscast in Oklahoma, plus two new hours of weekend morning news
- Field produced for KOCO & Hearst group during tornado outbreaks
- Filled-in for News Director and Assistant News Director as needed
Morning / 10 p.m. Producer
KOCO-TV 5 ABC – Oklahoma City
2006-2009
- Primary producer for severe weather and Emmy award-winning breaking news coverage
- Filled-in for Executive Producer, produced sports specials and election coverage
Producer / Reporter
KOMU-TV 8 NBC – Columbia, MO
2005-2006
- Produced morning, 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts
- Shot, wrote and edited stories, then presented them live; also fill-in anchored
- Operated ENG truck and worked as graphics engineer
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Journalism
University of Missouri – Columbia
EXPERTISE
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere
- Appboy
- Excitem
- ENPS
- Facebook Publishing
- Google Analytics
- HTML5
- iNews
- LAKANA
- MediaOS
- Microsoft Office
- Oasis
- OBS Studio
- ReactCast
- Sprinklr
- Stage TEN
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