Entries from November 2007 ↓

Less Than Jake at The Venue

Now that The Alligator has some equipment, I was able to take the video camera out for a spin. This is my second attempt at getting good video out of a concert.

The problem with RSS is that every time I screw around with my site, you all have to deal with the overload of feeds. Sorry about that, the flood should be over now.

On the bright side, every inch of the site is now CMS powered, no more hand-coding. Woo-hoo!

Education

2004 - May 2008
• Studying Journalism and Linguistics at the University of Florida

2000 - 2004
• International Baccalaureate Diploma at Coral Gables Senior High School

Skills

English/Spanish bilingual
CSS, HTML, beginning ActionScript, PHP and JavaScript
Dreamweaver, Flash, Microsoft Office
Audio editing
Windows, Mac OS
AP Style

Experience

6/17/08 - Present
• Multimedia Intern at The Miami Herald
  producing and packaging multimedia while learning how to build, work with and enhance databases for news stories.

September 2007 - Present
• Guest Blogger at News Videographer
  research and write a weekly blog post about video classes at j-schools (the whos and hows of training and gear), job and internship opportunities for videographers at newspapers, video in college publications (examples and interviews) and more

10/11/07 - 10/13/07
• Attended the Society of News Design conference in Boston, Mass.

9/28/07 - 9/30/07
• Attended the National Writer’s Workshop in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

August 2007 - May 2008
• Managing Editor / New Media at The Independent Florida Alligator
  lead a small team to get content (including multimedia and breaking news) online, create multimedia and special reports, get print staff thinking about the Web