About Me

Since arriving at the University of Miami in August 2006, Brian has been heavily involved. In November 2006, he participated in a National Geographic Photo Camp held in Homestead, Florida. He and other visual journalism students helped teach photography to the children of migrant Mexican workers. Brian was responsible for uploading a selection of the students’ daily photos to the camp’s website, and maintaining it each night.

In February 2007, Brian volunteered for UMTV’s newest endeavor, We The Students. The first exclusively online show for the station, We The Students is one of the first interactive collegiate debate shows in the nation. During the pilot shooting, Brian ran the graphics, using the skills he acquired from volunteering for NewsVision the previous semester. He also assisted in correcting any technical difficulties the website encountered.

In September 2007, Brian was hired as the webmaster for The Miami Hurricane student newspaper, a position he held until April 2010.

Throughout the summer of 2008, he completely rebuilt and redesigned the Hurricane’s site with a more multimedia-centric version, built on the powerful WordPress platform. Brian wrote an in-depth account of the entire process on the College Media Innovation blog.

Other student projects he participated in include West Grove 2008, Multimedia Standards, and the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games coverage.

Since the summer of 2009, Brian has also worked as a developer for GablesHomePage.com, a hyper-local news site for people who live and work in Coral Gables, built on the Drupal platform.

Brian is most excited about his opportunity to continue being a part of the Knight Center staff again, as the Senior New Media Developer. Three years ago, he began setting up servers and establishing procedures, even before the labs underwent construction. He also coded the website for Gaby Bruna’s report from Haiti’s Central Plateau— explaining the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, and how Project Medishare is helping it achieve them. Her report was one of the first produced under the initiative of the Knight Center for International Media.

After finishing his master’s degree, Brian hopes to work in online political media.