gariot p. louima
SUMMARY
Professional
writer and editor with several years of news-writing, reporting and
investigative experience at major metropolitan newspapers. Background also includes university communications,
ghost-writing and public relations planning and management.
EDUCATION
Est. 2006 Nova Southeastern
University Davie
M.B.A., degree candidate
June 2001 University of Miami Coral
Gables
B.S. in Communication
- Double major in print journalism and creative writing
- Editor in chief of bi-weekly campus newspaper (Fall 2000)
- Section editor for 1999 law school yearbook
EXPERIENCE
07/04-Present Nova Southeastern
University Fort Lauderdale
Editor in the Office of Public
Affairs
- Assist and advise members of the university community regarding
public relations issues; assist administrative officers in planning and
formulating policies, strategies, and responses relative to institutional
issues and crisis management
- Provide public relations information to the university
community and its constituencies; plan and direct development and
communication of information designed to keep public informed of
university's programs, accomplishments, or points of view
- Respond to requests for information from media personnel and
the public; distribute promotional materials, including flyers, brochures,
and press kits; disseminate information via the appropriate media.
- Write, edit, review, and approve public relations materials
including news releases, articles, speeches, on-line information services,
and university publications, such as the President's Annual Report
08/04-Present Broward Community
College Pembroke Pines
Adjunt Professor-English
- Teaching College
Preparatory Writing Skills, a 3-credit composition course that focuses
grammar mechanics, usage and essay writing
10/02-07/04 The Palm Beach Post West
Palm Beach
Municipal Reporter
- Staff writer assigned to the burgeoning city of Boynton
Beach in the competitive south Palm
Beach County
area and the small, seaside town of Ocean
Ridge and surrounding suburban communities
- Sole Creole-speaking reporter assigned to the coverage of
Haitian American social service groups, public figures and communities
02/04-04/04 Florida Career College Miami
Instructor-English
- Taught College Preparatory Writing Skills, a 3-credit
composition course that focuses grammar mechanics, usage and essay writing
9/01-9/02 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles
General Assignment Reporter
- Worked at one
of the nation’s largest newspapers as part of the Minority Editorial
Training Program
- Covered
municipal government in Burbank and crime in South Central Los Angeles,
and general assignments from the downtown Los Angeles news desk
- Stories
included a chronicle of a 10-year-old girl's visit to a central-California
prison to see visit with her mother on Mother's Day and an investigative
piece about a young man charged with first-degree murder after killing a
man who tried to stab him with a screwdriver
6/01-9/01 The Miami Herald Miami
Reporter
- Postgraduate summer internship at South Florida’s
largest daily newspaper assigned to municipal coverage in the city's of North
Miami, Sunny
Isles Beach,
El Portal and Biscayne Park
- Wrote an enterprise news-feature on the failed revitalization
efforts of a nonprofit group that had been given public funds and wrote
about the resignation of the well-respected chief of the city of North
Miami
2/00-5/00 The Miami Herald Miami
Reporting Intern
- College intern assigned to the North Miami/Miami Beach
Neighbors news bureau
- Community news and city hall reporter covering various cities
in north Miami-Dade County
5/00-8/00 The Times-Picayune New Orleans
Reporting Intern
- Wrote for the Central New Orleans and East
Jefferson (suburban) news bureaus covering crime and
neighborhood news for the Metro pages
- Wrote a Page 1A feature on a local arts group’s plans to turn a
high school auditorium into a performing arts theater
- Reported on issues in the French Quarter and wrote about the
fall of Napster, among other things
6/99-9/99 McGraw-Hill Minneapolis
Editorial Intern
- Assigned to two peer-reviewed medical journals: Postgraduate
Medicine and The Physician and Sportsmedicine
- Checked references cited in clinical studies and proofread
articles written by physician authors
- Wrote patient profiles published in a special issue on the
importance of an exercise routine to geriatric patients
8/98-6/01 Otto G. Richter Library—University
of Miami Coral Gables
Publications Assistant and
Newsletter Editor
- Created, designed and edited a
monthly newsletter for the University Library system called Library Links,
which publicized campus library services, a multi-million renovation, and library staff news.
- Assisted the library’s
communication liaison with the preparation of news articles and in
drafting ghost-written articles for the library director
8/00-12/00 Miami Hurricane Coral Gables
Editor in Chief
- Oversaw the publication of
bi-weekly campus newspaper
- Managed a staff of seven editors
and 35 reporters
- Managed editorial payroll
SKILLS
- Proficient in IBM and Mac platforms
- Familiar with Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXpress,
basic HTML, and newspaper word processing programs, such as Coyote,
Decade, CCI and Speedwriter
- Conversational in Haitian Creole
AFFILIATIONS
National Association of Black
Journalists