Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

What Ed does

I come up with story ideas, finding writers, finding photographers, thinking about possible video footage, creating and editing that footage, following up with writers and artist on deadlines, editing articles and photos that come in, deciding where stories fit best and for what issue, designing the layout of the magazine for this next issue, updating and maintaining the website, blog, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and other social sites I have us signed up for, as well as creating and working on events.

What Ed does best

I am a people person so Networking, promoter, being creative, planning events, and finding those who can help bring it all together.
What does Ed need?

Stories to be sent in, funding, and to expand MIX IT UP to have a great team of hard workers who share the same interest as me.

Education

B.A. in Communications, Sales & Marketing certificate.

Experience

I have become very involved in the publishing industry combining my skills with photography, design, planning, and video to create my current project, MIX IT UP Magazine. I have always enjoyed taking photos, reading magazines, and learning how it all comes together. I have taken classes in photojournalism, journalism, advertising, marketing, and the list goes on as it relates to communications.

We live in an amazing world and I am here to help capture it and tell its stories. While attending the junior college I was a contributing photographer for The Oak Leaf, the schools newspaper. I worked close with the staff and that was actually where I first got my work published.

From there I moved onto landing my first internship at the North Bay Bohemian, a free local paper that services three counties Marin, Sonoma, and Napa. I did photography as well as a wrote articles. I have created a page containing these articles and photos here. Once I transferred to Sonoma State University I work as a photographer on the Star, the schools weekly newspaper. While there, I not only took photos but I also wrote a few articles. It wasn't long before I was promoted to Photo Editor.

During all of this I was able to land my biggest internship yet, an editorial intern for Make magazine. Make is a print magazine as well as online, owned by O'Reilly Company, and also publishes Craft magazine, now only available online. I do work for both magazines. I switched over from an editorial intern to a photo intern. Now, I am the assistant to our photo editor, helping her gather photos, photo credits, checking photo specs, taking photos, setting up shoots, and more.