About
I earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in nonfiction writing and editing for the Web from George Mason University. During my time at school, I served as Culture Editor and Senior Staff Writer for the only independent student newspaper on campus. This experience allowed me to exercise my detailed writing and editing skills in a deadline-driven environment. I have also, through the University English department, conducted undergraduate talks on hypertext and copyright and given lectures to graduate students on web design.
I have three years of office experience. I am skilled in Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, and PowerPoint; and Adobe Acrobat, PhotoShop CS, and Illustrator CS. I am proficient with web composers like Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive for website development and maintenance. I have advanced hand-coding skills in (X)HTML and CSS and I have had extensive experience with FTP.
Writing
I have blogged about blogging and hypertext. I have shadowed a washingtonpost.com reporter and taken classes in AP style. Some of the websites I created have been for economists and marching bands. I have written an extensive guide to posting (PDF) as a website companion.
Writing samples from my time as Culture Editor and Staff Writer for George Mason University's Expulsion newspaper (all links are in .JPG form).
- On Blogging
- Working with a Computer Part 1
- Working with a Computer Part 2
- Working with a Computer Part 3
- Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith
Sample Work
The website for Annandale High School Bands was a challenge in simplicity. The website aims to increase the speed and scope of the department's communication. Updating and maintenance needs to be simple to achieve this goal. I integrated a blogging application to the front page of the website to allow simple and fast updates to the site.
See also: My flickr site.