Resume

Goals

Use technology to enhance communication
Incorporate politics and current events into the field of Visual Communication
Use emerging techniques in communication to enhance content
Produce videos and other media for organizations

Activities

SomosFoto
A week-long workshop for photojournalists; updated web site for 2008

The Last Game at the Miami Orange Bowl," slideshow
Recorded audio clips of final game, edited clips and helped build slideshow

"Haiti's Central Plateau," winner of Region 3 Mark of Excellence Award (Online Feature Reporting)
Coded site and developed the flash map with slideshows

We The Students
An online, interactive debate television program (February 2007- Present)
Created graphics

UMTV NewsVision (Freshman Year)
Edited B-rolls for weekly newscasts at campus television station
Created graphics

National Geographic Photo Camp—Homestead, FL (November 9-12, 2006)
Webmaster, responsible for maintaining the program’s web site, updating it daily with new photos taken at the workshop
Worked with students of Mexican migrant workers, helping them learn photography; recorded sound

Part-time Jobs

New Media Designer, Knight Center for International Media (January 07- Present)
Assist with day-to-day operations, set up equipment, and provide technical support

Webmaster, The Miami Hurricane (September 07- Present)
Upload articles and multimedia to campus newspaper web site

Sears Holdings Corporation
Sales Associate in Electronics Department at Sears (June 05- February 06, May 07- August 07)
Sales Associate (June 06- August 06, December 06- January 07)

Software and Programming Skills

Mac OS X and UNIX underpinnings (Tiger and Leopard)
Windows (XP and Vista)
Microsoft Office Applications
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe InDesign CS3
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Flash CS3
Apple Final Cut Pro (Versions 5.1 and 6)
HTML and CSS
Familiarity with PHP and MySQL

Honor Societies

Alpha Lambda Delta
National Honor Society
Mu Alpha Theta Math Honorary
International Thespian Society
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Foreign Language Honor Society

Conferences Attended

BarCamp Miami (2007 and 2008)
Future of Web Apps Miami (2008)

Interests

Multimedia and Interactive Media
Photography
Audio Capture and Editing