Professional Experience

Marketer, Content Writer

Nov. 2011 - Present, Notable Positions

• TMC (2013 - 2016): Top contributor of IT articles - WebRTC, cloud, communications
• Zype (2015): Initial web presence, managed blog, social media - video hosting articles
• Quora (2017): Created hundreds of Facebook posts summarizing website content
• VirtualPBX (2018 - 2021): Lead content writer, created marketing collateral and internal documentation - blog posts, technical docs, emails, style guides, and web pages
• What's in a Phrase? (2022 - Present): Lead writer of fiction analysis newsletter, maintains a regular publishing schedule and has grown its subscriber base

Grant Writer (Volunteer)

May - August 2016

• Water Underground, of Mozambique: Managed a 3-person team to write and research several grants and proposals. Private funding. Reported weekly to the head of WU.

Journalist

Apr. 2012 - Oct. 2014

• The Inter-Mountain Newspaper (2012 - 2013): Beat encompassed all of West Virginia's Tucker County. Local government; environment; human interest; public events; business.
• Boothbay Register (2014): Contract writer for the 2014 tourist season. Feature-length stories for daily web and weekly print. Local education; politics; community events.

Magazine Writer

November 2013 - May 2014

• Wheeling Life, of Wheeling, WV: Feature stories of community groups and education captured parts of the city not shown by other local magazines.

Technical Knowledge

• Data, reporting: MySQL (Wordpress), SQLite (Rails), MS Office, Google Docs
• CRM: Salesforce
• Web: HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Mailchimp, Substack, Zapier
• Graphics: GIMP, Blender, Vega (plots, graphs)
• Programming: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C, Javascript, Python

Education

B.A., Psychology and Human Services, Davis and Elkins College, 2007