WORK HISTORY

Managing editor
The Birmingham News
• Plan content and presentation of news, features and sports for Alabama’s largest newspaper.
• Supervise deadline production of the daily paper and online updates for al.com, the state’s top Web site.
• Oversee sports coverage for one of the most passionate college football fan bases in the nation.
• Edit stories, write headlines and develop visual opportunities for daily and advance sections.
• Manage design desk, copy desk, graphics and photo departments.

Previously at The Birmingham News:
Assistant managing editor, 2004-2009
• Created interactive online databases, including the first public listing of metro-area property values.
• Launched “Spaces,” a new home and garden section featuring alternative story forms.
• Led a redesign and content makeover of "City Scene," a weekly entertainment guide.
• Directed presentation of “Unseen. Unforgotten,” a collection of never-before-published images from the civil rights movement.
• Developed a new mission for the Sunday edition, including new design and content and the launch of an expanded college football section, “Football U.”

Presentation editor, 2002-2003
• Worked as a liaison between editors and designers for story planning.
• Redesigned prep sports pages for expanded coverage launched in 2001.

Page One editor, designer, 2001-2002
• Designed the front page, determining story play, headlines and use of photos and graphics.
• Led presentation of Sept. 11 coverage and a one-year anniversary section.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
1995-2001: Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, Design and graphics editor
1994-1995: The (Fort Pierce, Fla.) Tribune, Assistant news editor, designer
1992-1994: Anderson (S.C.) independent-Mail, Assistant news editor, designer