University of South Florida Saint Petersburg

Multimedia Specialist/Studio Manager

St. Petersburg, FL

2013 – Present

• • • Produce multimedia assets for online and hybrid classes for the Digital Journalism and Design Master’s online program.
    • Contributed photography for the University of South Florida Communications and Marketing Department that has been used in a variety of print and online marketing and news materials.
    • Consultant with colleagues regarding classroom video, audio, photographic, and educational technologies to ensure the department will remain relevant in the field of higher education and digital communication.
    • Responsible for maintenance and recommendation of new student equipment and checkout procedures for students.
    • Past faculty advisor for The Bullcast Association, which was a student led YouTube channel where students learned live media production both in the field and studio.
    • Science communications mentor for the 2024 and 2025 REU Making Waves program that is hosted by the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. The students learned media production skills in the studio to create a video about their experiences while attending the program.
    • Past faculty advisor for ONA (The Online News Organization). Duties included teaching students video, audio, photography, and live streaming in the field through real world experiences, most notably the students covered the ACES (The Society for Editing) conference for three consecutive years in three different locations (Saint Petersburg, Chicago, and Providence).
    • Responsible for all aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production for any projects associated with Videoworks, which is a multimedia production studio that is available for both university and external clients. Current projects include:
      • Technical director and editor for audio podcasts that are produced by the Journalism and Digital Communication Department in collaboration with the Tampa Bay Times (Florida in Depth), the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (The Rising Tides Podcast), and the Poynter Institute (The Poynter Report Podcast) which includes and audio only version and YouTube channel.
      • Editor, Cinematographer, Motion Graphics Artist, and Director for a music video under production for CRESCENDO (Community Research Expansively through Sonification and Community Engaged Neuroaesthetic Data-literacy Opportunities), an interdisciplinary collaboration between multiple University of South Florida research departments that reenvisions how scientific data is reported to the public. The data set is taken from Red Tide blooms along the Florida coast and instances of Stony Coral Tissue Loss disease that affects corals in Florida tropical reefs. The completed music video will incorporate the musical piece that was composed by the University of South Florida Music Department and data visualizations.