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Qualifications

* Highly creative entrepreneur and independent thinker

* Possess knowledge of computers, design software, the Internet and HTML

* Have many contacts in numerous industries (movie, home entertainment, education, travel, PR, government, police, animal.)

Experience

Freelance Journalist/Writer

1/01 to present

Duties include writing entertainment stories, celebrity interviews,

first-person columns, dog-themed articles, news stories, features,

movie reviews, DVD/video reviews, business pieces, public-relations

materials and trend pieces.

Publications include:

Dog's Life Magazine, Examiner.com, the Pasadena

Star-News, Dog Fancy Magazine, Bow Tie Inc publications, Orange Coast Magazine, Los Angeles Daily

News, Los Angeles Times' Campus Times, Video Store Magazine, All Movie

Guide, Veterinary Practice News, Pet Product News, Fullerton News

Tribune, WHERE Magazine, Preferred Destinations Magazine, The D

Newspaper, the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Popular Dogs Series, MyHero.com.

Highlights: 7-time national award winner at the .

National columnist for Dog Fancy Magazine, spearheading the new "For the Love of Dogs" and "Star Power" columns;

Contributing Editor for Dog Fancy Magazine;

Doggie Diva and Creature Connection columnist for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (ex: the Pasadena Star-News);

"Dinner and a DVD" columnist for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group;

Regular entertainment columnist for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group;

--Regular writer for Orange Coast Magazine's celebrity cover features;

Spearhead Dog Fancy Magazine's annual, national search for Dogtown USA;

Cover-story writer for various publications (Dog Fancy Magazine, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News);

Fashion columnist/writer for Preferred Destinations Magazine;

Entertainment columnist and writer for The D newspaper (part of the

Riverside Press-Enterprise) in Palm Springs as well as the Campus

Times, a publication of the Los Angeles Times.

Author

2/08 to present

Wrote Move Over Rover!, a nonfiction book for dog lovers. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of, in August 2009.

Journalism Professor

8/08 to present

Instructor for Journ. 101, teaching college students about journalism skills, from writing and reporting to sports writing and magazine features. Instructor for Journ. 108, teaching advanced feature- and freelance-writing skills. Instructor for Journ. 110, Mass Media Survey a critical examination of the media industry and its history.

Editor/Proofreader

6/10-present

Proofreads and edits a variety of projects, from articles to books, novels to textbooks.

Journalism Advisor

1/02 to 1/09

Spearheading and creating a school-newspaper program for fourth- and fifth-graders at two elementary schools.

Creative Writing Advisor

9/05 to 6/06

Spearheading and creating an after-school fiction writing program for fourth- and fifth-graders.

Associate Editor-Video Store Magazine

10/99 to 6/01

Wrote weekly features, trend stories and business articles, designed

and wrote a weekly theatrical page, covered issues in the video and

home entertainment industries, wrote movie and DVD reviews. Special

sections editor (July 2000) and Web Content Provider.

Designer-Tustin Weekly newspaper

8/99 to 10/99

Used Adobe PhotoShop and Quark Express to design an award-winning, two-section, four-color weekly newspaper.

News Editor-The Orange Independent newspaper

11/97 to 10/99

Designed a four-color weekly newspaper using Quark Express and Adobe

Photoshop. Wrote a columns, news and feature pieces. Supervised a staff

of freelance writers and photographers.

Accomplishments: Three-time CNPA contest award winner for design and layout (first place two times)

Journalist-Tustin Weekly newspaper

11/97 to 10/99

Covered the Tustin Unified School District and reported on education

issues. Also found, developed and wrote feature stories, unsigned

editorials, columns and profiles. Designed sister publication, The

Tustin Weekender, a 24-page Los Angeles Times-affiliated newspaper.

Journalist-The Orange Independent newspaper

5/95 to 10/99

Found, developed and wrote features, news briefs, government stories, breaking news, cover stories and columns each week.

Accomplishments: Six-time award winner at The Best Reporter's Contest in Costa Mesa (three for first-person column writing)

Media Relations Spokesperson-American Red Cross

7/93 to 9/94

Wrote press releases, worked with media, co-spearheaded community

events, assisted with annual reports and neighborhood outreach.

Education

University of Southern California

Bachelor of Arts, Print Journalism

Contact Info

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