Recent Experience
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C., and St. Louis 2014–2025
Senior Product Manager, Creator Experience
2024–2025
Led a cross-functional team dedicated to developing tools that empowered The Post's journalists to create, publish, and curate high-quality news content efficiently. Bridged newsroom needs with innovative solutions, driving strategic goals.
- Oversaw the development of a collaborative content creation platform and a next-generation video CMS for live and on-demand events.
- Integrated AI-powered tools that suggested improved language and graded SEO performance, resulting in streamlined workflows and enhanced discoverability.
- Managed the product roadmap, aligned stakeholder needs, and delivered tools adopted by the newsroom with minimal training required.
Senior Editor, News Product
2021–2024
Served as the primary stakeholder for newsroom curation tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams to elevate content discoverability, engagement, and editorial impact.
- Spearheaded the 2022 homepage redesign, increasing click-through rates through strategic curation guidelines and editor training.
- Designed and analyzed personalization experiments, improving content relevance for diverse audiences.
- Led the transition to a new page layout system with rigorous user testing and detailed documentation.
- Represented newsroom priorities in product and engineering discussions, ensuring editorial excellence in technical solutions.
Homepage Editor
2016–2021
Curated The Post's homepage and apps during pivotal news cycles, ensuring timely and visually engaging presentations that resonated with millions of readers.
- Crafted compelling headlines, news alerts, and blurbs that drove engagement during breaking news events.
- Led high-profile projects, including coverage for the 2018, 2020, and 2022 election cycles.
- Collaborated with design, photo, and video teams to deliver innovative story presentations.
News Designer/Art Director
2014–2024
Designed digital and print storytelling experiences, combining creativity and editorial precision to engage readers across platforms.
- Produced award-winning designs for Page One and special projects.
- Established best practices for transitioning the design team from print to digital-first workflows.
Previous Experience
The Boston Globe
Boston 2007–2014
Assistant Design Director, News
- Led high-profile Page One designs, earning multiple industry awards for excellence in storytelling and design.
- Supervised layout editors, developing workflows to balance creative design with editorial priorities.
- Mentored junior designers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
The Florida Times‑Union
Jacksonville, Fla. 2005–2007
Copy Editor and Page Designer
- Designed layouts for business, metro, and community news, ensuring accuracy and engaging storytelling.
The Jacksonville Business Journal
Jacksonville, Fla. 2003‑2005
Assistant Editor
- Assigned freelance stories, edited copy, designed layouts, and wrote profiles of local business leaders, balancing editorial and design priorities.
The Mandarin News
Jacksonville, Fla. 2003
Staff Writer
- Reported, wrote, photographed, edited, and designed for this weekly community newspaper, gaining hands-on experience in all facets of small newsroom operations.
Professional Awards
- 38th Best of Newspaper Design (2016): Four awards of excellence for news design, including recognition of an individual portfolio.
- 37th Best of Newspaper Design (2015): Two awards of excellence for news design.
- 36th Best of Newspaper Design (2014): Three awards of excellence for news design.
- 35th Best of Newspaper Design (2013): Silver Medal for news design; three awards of excellence for news design.
- 28th Best of Newspaper Design (2006): Two awards of excellence for business page design.
- Florida Press Association (2004): First place: Graphic design.
Key Skills & Expertise
- Technical proficiency: Expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Arc, Méthode, and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Editorial expertise: News judgment, curation, content strategy, and audience engagement.
- Leadership: Cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder alignment, and roadmap management.
- Innovation: Integrating AI tools for editorial workflows and enhanced storytelling.
Community Engagement
City Greens Market
St. Louis, Mo. 2023–present
Board Secretary and Chair, Expansion Committee
City Greens Market is a nonprofit grocery store serving the community with locally sourced food at affordable prices. As a board officer and committee chair, I’ve helped guide organizational strategy and planning around growth, funding, and long-term sustainability.
- Helps coordinate expansion efforts in partnership with developers and architectural teams, focusing on site planning, layout flexibility, and lease terms.
- Collaborates with the finance committee on capital campaign planning to fund buildout and first-year operating costs for a second location.
- Serves as secretary of the board, helping to document key decisions and maintain transparency across the organization.
- Volunteers in-store and works to deepen my involvement in fundraising strategy, including a growing focus on donor communications.
More Service & Side Projects
- Founded and runs the nonprofit Shaw Tool Library, a neighborhood tool-sharing library that fosters sustainability and community collaboration.
- Volunteer with the Missouri Historical Society, categorizing photos for the library's image archive to preserve local history.
- Served as a tutor with Reading All Stars, a program in Washington, D.C., helping improve literacy among children in underserved communities.
- Copy-edited and designed “Big Bad Banks: How Greed and Ego Among the Big Shots in Banking and Government Created the Crisis That Wrecked Our Economy” by C.R. "Rusty" Cloutier, contributing to the book’s professional presentation.
- Co-DJed a night of '80s/'90s alternative and indie rock (e.g., Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Morrissey) periodically from 2013 to 2016 at River Gods in Cambridge, Mass.
Education
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Fla. 1999–2002
- Bachelor of Science in Communications, Print Journalism; minors in Philosophy and Psychology.
- Photography Editor for the campus newspaper, The Spinnaker.