Resumé

Currently

Teacher Support Network: Currently the Digital Media Manager for this organization. Some highlights:

  • Teachersupport.info, a news, fundraising and support service website for educators in England, Scotland and Wales, winner for  Best Use of the Web in 2009.
  • Recourse, a website aimed at provided news and services for HE and FE faculty and staff in post-16 education in UK.
  • Staffwise, an information and online assessment tool for organizational wellbeing in Scottish schools and local authorities.
  • Great Teachers, a website highlighting teachers’ roles in our lives and society.

I also manage the group of charities’ digital media strategy, which includes social networking strategy, search engine optimization and Google adwords campaigns among other things.

Movement Studio: This is the business name I and another online media colleague, Dave Reed, operate under for our various freelance endeavors. To learn more about Movement Studio, click here. I offer consulting and services in the following areas:

  • Web design
  • Print design
  • Logos and branding
  • Media strategy
  • Research projects
  • Campaign strategies
  • Issue framing
  • Using open source alternatives and utilizing new media tools
  • Freelance writing projects
  • Freelance editing projects
  • Freelance photography

Previously

Projects have included:

Other Careers

  • Copy editor for The Olympian, a daily newspaer in Olympia, WA.
  • Reporter/section editor for Sound Publishing, a weekly and twice-weekly newspaper chain in Northwest Washington state
  • Reporter for The Hermiston Herald, a weekly newspaper in Eastern Oregon
  • English as a second language teacher at Elite Foreign Language Institute, Andong South Korea and Amideast language center in Rabat, Morocco.
  • Web developer for Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice

Studies

  • BA in journalism and mass media at The Evergreen State College
  • ESL teaching accreditation through International House

Volunteer Efforts

For many of these organizations and efforts, I’ve been a board member, contract worker or coordinator and have remained involved since as a volunteer. You live in the world, that can’t be helped. Participating makes it more interesting. I continue to do these things as I find the time for free:

Contact

To get a full version of the CV with dates and references and more specific information, contact me via the form on this website.