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Hudson Valley Renegades Baseball Team, Wappingers Falls, New York

Short-Season Class-A Affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays

Team Broadcaster (May/2012 – September/2012)

Acted as primary contact for all external media, issuing credentials and handling press requests

Wrote postgame recaps for all Renegades games and published them to web on MLBAM system

Broadcasted play-by-play for all 76 regular season games and all postseason games, including New York-Penn League Championship

Produced Facebook/Twitter posts, press releases, program articles, and social media initiatives

Sold tickets in person and over the phone, providing customer service and representing team

Hosted and produced live pregame show on-field, helping to promote sponsors and guests

Hickory Crawdads Baseball Club, Hickory, North Carolina

Class-A Affiliate of the Texas Rangers

Broadcasting Assistant (February/2011 – August/2011)

Broadcasted play-by-play and color commentary for 70 regular season games

Produced Facebook posts, Twitter announcements, newsletter articles, and social media initiatives for team

Interviewed players and managers for pregame show; wrote blog articles for official team site.

WCHL 1360 Radio, Chapel Hill, NC

Hyper-local news-talk-sports radio station

On-Air Talent/News Anchor-Reporter/Sports Play-by-Play and Reporter (September/2009 – September/2010)

Play-by-play for high school sports, and extensive coverage of NCAA athletics; hosted/produced high school sports pregame show

Reported on news and sports events and interviewed prominent figures from news and sports worlds

Anchor, morning/evening news; produced and edited stories for air, posted to web and Tweeted links on Twitter

WTOP Radio, Washington, DC

Top-rated radio station in United States

Sports Intern (July/2009 August/2009)

Interviewed local athletes and sports figures at various events around Washington

Edited audio of interviews and prepared sound clips for airing

Syracuse Crunch, Syracuse, New York

AHL hockey team

Play-by-Play Intern (November/2008 – April/2009)

Performed play-by-play for critique by team s official broadcaster

Helped compile highlights for in-studio intermission shows

Boston.com, Boston, Massachusetts

Online wing of the Boston Globe

Sports Intern (May/2007 – June/2008)

Created a number of pieces of original content, including the site s top-drawing feature for July 2007

Worked to synergize the organization s print and online operations by editing stories and blog posts

Created several pieces of content on-the-fly, including liveblogs of the 2007 and 2008 MLB amateur drafts

WBRS 100.1 FM, Waltham, Massachusetts

Student-run, FCC-licensed radio station of Brandeis University

Special Productions Director (2005-2006), Chief Announcer (2006-2007), PSA Director (2007-2008)

Performed as play-by-play announcer and color commentator for many Brandeis basketball and baseball games (clips on request)

Organized and directed special productions wing of WBRS as Special Productions Director, including parties and live sound events

Administered the operations logs and public file of WBRS as Chief Announcer

Managed the Public Service Announcements of WBRS as PSA Director; also recorded all station IDs for automationEDUCATION

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

June/2008 Early August/2009

M.S., Broadcast Journalism. Graduated August 2009. 3.708 GPA.

Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

September/2004 May/2008

B.A., English (minor in Journalism), Cum Laude, May 2008. 3.505 GPA. National Merit Scholar.SKILLS

Skilled with news-writing of all kinds, particularly sports; experienced with press releases

Very experienced and skilled with video and audio editing software (ProTools/Final Cut/Adobe Audition in particular)

Strong with use of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator

Web-savvy, with HTML coding experience, as well as frequent use with Twitter, Facebook, Blogger and WordPress platforms, and experienced with MLBAM CMS

Experience with cold-calling and external sales, as well as customer service, public relations and marketing REFERENCES

Joe Ausanio, Director of Baseball Communications, Hudson Valley Renegades.

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Corey Whitted, General Manager, Hudson Valley Renegades.

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Andrew Willmert, Director of Corporate Partnerships, Hudson Valley Renegades.

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Mark Seaman, General Manager, Hickory Crawdads.

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Andrew Buchbinder, Director of Broadcasting, Hickory Crawdads.

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Chris Forsberg, Reporter, ESPNBoston.com.

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George Wallace, Sports Director, WTOP Radio.

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Dennis Deninger, President/Exec. Producer, Deninger Media.

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