Web Content Specialist

PORTFOLIO

Dicewrites.com/writing

EDUCATION

M.A., Journalism

American University

2010

B.S., Electronic Media

Towson University

2005

SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Experience Manager

Drupal

Sitecore

Microsoft Office Suite

HTML

CSS

SEO

Social Media

Web Analytics

AWARDS

E.W. Scripps Multimedia Journalism Fellowship, 2010

Best of Scripps for Deadline Reporting, 2011

TAUREN DYSON

Writer Content Strategist

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linkedin.com/in/taurendyson

EXPERIENCE

Writer/ Editor/ Content Strategist

Freelance, September 2011 - Currently

Write daily news articles about politics,technology, healthcare, and real estate. Clients include Amazon AI blog, United Press International, Daily Mail, Newsmax, CNET, Bisnow, TVTechnology,Technical.ly, and other publications.

Created daily newsletter for various publications aimed at business and technology audiences.

Consult with clients on how to create, position, and promote content that reaches target audiences.

UX Writer/ Content Curator (Contractor)

Google, November 2016 - March 2018

Created voice user interfaces for Google Assistant.

Pitched new ideas and collaborated with other writers,visual artists, sounddesigners, and software engineers to develop new content.

Tested QA for games on the Google Assistant app,

Compared Google Assistant to similar artificial intelligence devices.

UX Writer/Web Editor (Contractor)

D.C. Office of Chief Technology Officer, July 2015- November 2015

Coded HTML to make static web pages responsive to mobile devices using Adobe Experience Manager.

Planned, wrote, edited, tested, and enhanced the user interface, microcopy, help content, buttons, and navigation.

Performed QA and 508 compliance for web pages.

Placed SEO keywords in titles, subheads, and image alt text.

Web Producer (Contractor)

Kaiser Health News, Nov. 2013 - March 2014

Wrote SEO-friendly headlines and subheads for healthcare articles.

Edited 8 to 10 health care articles per day.

Used HTML to enhance web page design.

Compiled daily health care policy e-newsletter for 50k subscribers.

News Assistant (Contractor)

Yahoo! News, June 2012 - August 2012

Edited 12 daily political articles for 700k monthly readers.

Anchored Twitter and Facebook accounts for Yahoo’s political blog.

Curated daily politics e-newsletter for 80k subscribers.

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