Resume
ESSENTIALS
Packaging won gold, silver at 54th Birmingham ADDY Awards 2012
Poster advanced to semifinals in Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2011
Film screened at Sidewalk Film Festival 2010
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts December 2011
Majors: Art Studio – Graphic Design; Communications – Journalism
Minor: Anthropology
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
UAB Dining Services | Graphic Designer Fall 2010-Present
Rebranded the campus dining facilities including names, logos, brochures and installations
UAB Athletics | Marketing Intern Fall 2010
Responsible for film/print production, ideation, event coordination, and market sampling
UAB Student Media, InsideUAB.com | Alternative Media Editor Spring 2010-Summer 2010
Assigned, covered and designed short form stories for print and online editions
Generated multimedia packaging: maps, polls, audio, video and photo slide shows
Search engine optimization
UAB Student Media, Kaleidoscope | Assistant Production Manager Fall 2011 | Editor-in-Chief 2009 | Photo Editor 2008 | Staff Writer 2006-2007
Developed management skills by coordinating editors, revising the staff manual
Created training seminars
Redesigned the paper
Contributed copy, design, multimedia, web
UAB Student Media, Aura Literary Arts Review | Art Director, Managing Editor 2008-2009
Generated editorial design
Judged creativity and content of submitted art
UAB Student Media, BlazeRadio.org | New Student Trainer 2007-2009 | Disc Jockey 2006-2010
Created shows by generating a listener base, producing ads
Broadcasted live interviews that were recorded for podcasts
Contributed vocal talent to a Sirius Student Exchange broadcast
Birmingham Weekly | Intern Summer 2009 | Contributor Fall 2009
Covered features, music, art, news and environmental issues with multimedia
Started “Indie Index,” a showcase of local musical talent for print, web and radio
The Birmingham News | Photography Job Shadowing Fall 2008
Learned proper photojournalism and visual storytelling techniques
The Madison County Record | Reporter Summer 2007, 2008
Covered news, sports and features with photos for a small city weekly
The Crimson Crier | Business Manager 2005-2006 | Staff Writer 2004-2005
Created print advertisements and monitored advertisements sold, wrote stories
Involvement
American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA Spring 2009-Present
Management Seminar for College News Editors, Cox Management Institute 2009
Eye Ink UAB Graphic Design Club, Ringmaster Fall 2010-Present; Member Spring 2009-Present
Society of Professional Journalists, UAB Chapter Historian Fall 2007-Fall 2010
Southeastern Journalism Conference Representative Spring 2007-2009
Green Initiative at UAB, Publicity Chairman Fall 2008; Member Fall 2007-Fall 2009
Recognition
“Split Milk,” Best of Show, AIGA Birmingham, Emerging Designers Showcase, 2012; Gold ADDY, AAF Birmingham, 54th ADDY Awards, 2012; UAB Juried Student Show, 2011; Run of the Mill Club, French Paper Co., 2011; UAB Student Research Expo, 2011
“Campus Crime,” 1st Runner-Up in Poster, AIGA Birmingham, Emerging Designer Showcase, 2012; Semifinalist, Adobe Design Achievement Awards, 2011; You’re Fabulous (2nd Place), AIGA Birmingham, Salon des Refuses, 2010
“Generating Bright Ideas,” 4th Runner-Up in Packaging, AIGA Birmingham, Emerging Designers Showcase, 2012; Silver ADDY, AAF Birmingham, 54th ADDY Awards, 2012
“Always Saving,” Silver ADDY, AAF Birmingham, 53rd ADDY Awards, 2011
“Extraordinary Actors Who Happen to Be…,” Sidewalk Film Festival, 2010
“It’s Time to Ride,” Birmingham diversity discussion series, 2010
Journalist of the Year, UAB Department of Communications, 2009
Third Place, SEJC Radio News Broadcast Writing, 2008
TOOLS
Adobe InDesign CS5, Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Flash CS5, Lightroom 2, Muse, CSS3/HTML, CSS Edit, Final Cut Pro, Sound Slides, Audacity
