Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I am an online producer for Gannett/USA WEEKEND and a freelance journalist and web developer.

I am a 2007 graduate of the University of Tennessee's Journalism and Electronic Media program where I focused on feature reporting, photojournalism, television and video production, and radio broadcasting (and ran up my student loans pursuing all of these media passions). I was an editorial intern with Playboy magazine and later an investigative reporter intern with the non-profit ProPublica where I spent 3 months working on the USA Today front page story "Crimes by Air Marshals Raise Questions About Hiring" (Nov 2008). I've also worked on a FRONTLINE documentary ("College, Inc"), developed a news-based content management system, and keep feeding my inner computer geek.

Work History

• Freelance
• Writer and News Applications Developer
• January 2009 to Present

• The Daily Beacon
• Reporter / Editorial Developer
• August 2004 to Present

• Gannett (USA WEEKEND)
• Online Producer
• December 2010 to Present

• ProPublica
• Investigative Reporter Intern
• July 2008 to October 2008

• Playboy
• Editorial Intern
• June 2006 to August 2006

• Scoop Magazine
• Editor-in-Chief / Writer / Photographer
• January 2006 to December 2006

• Tennessee Journalist
• Opinion Editor
• Febuary 2007 to May 2007

• WUTK 90.3 FM "The Rock"
• Radio Personality / Assistant Programming Director
• January 2005 to March 2006

Education

• University of Tennessee
• Bachelor of Science in Communication, Journalism and Electronic Media
• 2004 - 2007

• Phi Sigma Kappa (Epsilon Lambda)
  Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  Golden Key International Honour Society

• Eastern Michigan University
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• Phi Sigma Kappa (Epsilon Lambda)

• United States Army Military Intelligence School
• Intelligence Analysis
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