EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

The Record, 150 River Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601
December 2002 to present
• Copy Editor — edit staff and Associated Press stories for 180,000-circulation daily newspaper.

The New York Times on the Web, 500 Seventh Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10018
August 2000 to September 2001
• Multimedia Producer — created enhanced multimedia editions of The New York Times under deadline for electronic distribution, adding content from or creating hyperlinks to Web sites relevant to a given news article; nightly duties alternated among site's international, national, politics, metropolitan, science, health and opinion news sections.

iMDiversity.com, Inc., 909 Poydras Street, 36th Floor, New Orleans, LA 70112
June 1999 to October 2000
• Online Editor — managed and edited the Hispanic-American Village, an online news magazine and interactive forum which forms part of a diversity recruitment Web site providing information and network opportunities to minority jobseekers; developed a network of freelance writers to generate news, analysis, opinion, and feature articles relevant to Hispanic American professionals in the U.S. workforce; transferred to New York in the last four months of tenure.

Brief & Company, 203 Carondelet Street, Suite 801, New Orleans, LA 70130
June 1998 to June 1999
• Public Relations Assistant — handled communications and marketing for public relations firm.

New Orleans Publishing Group, 111 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 1810, Metairie, LA 70005
September 1996 to March 1998
• Freelance Correspondent — reported news stories for multi-publication media company's business weekly and Spanish-language newspapers.

Potomac News, 14010 Smoketown Road, Woodbridge, VA 22192
February 1995 to May 1996
• Copy Editor — edited staff and Associated Press stories for 30,000-circulation daily newspaper; composed the paper's daily national and international news sections.

The Daily Reveille, 39 Hodges Hall, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Spring 1991 to Spring 1994
• Managing Editor, Spring 1994 — assigned and supervised reporting of news stories for collegiate daily newspaper; determined news content and placement of stories for daily editions.
• Associate Managing Editor, Fall 1993 — supervised page layout, design and editing of staff and Associated Press wire stories; coordinated photography assignments.
• Copy Editor, Spring 1993 & Spring 1992 — edited staff and Associated Press stories for accuracy, grammar and AP style; wrote headlines; assisted photographers in caption writing.
• Staff Writer, Spring 1991 — reported on campus and community issues, events and college administration meetings; compiled campus crime reports.

SKILLS

• Proficient in state-of-the-art Internet publishing and desktop publishing software
• Familiar with radio and television broadcast and production equipment
• Possess functional knowledge of 35mm black & white photography and printmaking
• Fluent in Spanish and French; functionally literate in Portuguese

ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

• College Radio Announcer, KLSU-FM, 1990-94
• Vice President, LSU Latin American Student Association, 1993-94
• Member, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, 1999-Present
• Member, MENSA, 1997-Present