Experience
NBC News - Digital
Write, edit, code, analyze data and project manage for the Data / Graphics team at NBCNews.com.
- Data Editor
- 2018 – current
New York Daily News
Lead developer & project manager for the Daily News’ newsroom interactive team.
- Senior Developer
- 2017 – 2018
The Denver Post
Built front- and back-end tools and projects for the newsroom.
- Senior Developer
- 2014 – 2017
Digital First Media
Strategized and implemented CMS-level technology for the Denver Post’s parent corporation.
- Senior Developer
- 2012 – 2014
The Denver Post
- Senior Developer
- 2006 – 2012
Winston-Salem Journal
- Senior Online Producer
- 2004 – 2006
Joe Design
- Freelance designer & web developer
- 2001 – 2006
Skills
Journalism
- A.P. style
- Copy editing & headline writing
- Data analysis, cleaning
- News judgment
Design
- Tables, charts & graphs best practices
- Web site layout & information architecture
- Photo editing
Software fluency
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
- Command-line proficiency
- Git version control
- Spreadsheet layout and programming
- Vim text editor
Project management
- Agile methodology
- Vendor management best practices
Web development
Front-end
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Web accessibility
- d3
- Responsive design
- Site load optimization
- Web map-making
Back-end
- Screen scraping (bash, python, node, selenium)
- Data pipeline creation
- Python
- Django & Flask frameworks
- Shell scripting
- MySQL, SQLite
- Regular expressions
- Web app security best practices
- Web server setup & configuration (Apache, nginx)
Education & affiliations
Northwestern University
- Medill School of Journalism
- BSJ Journalism
- Black Studies
Member of IRE.