Experience

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Enterprise reporter

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  2017-2018 portfolio focuses strongly on area recovery in the aftermath of Category 4 Hurricane Harvey. Investigative work includes pieces addressing Corpus Christi’s outdated, 33-year-old flood maps amid a continued development boom.Additional work includes contributions to USA Today’s “The Wall” series.

• City enterprise reporter

  • Aug 2014 - May 2017

  Enterprise reporting with an emphasis on city government. Focus includes watchdog work, city growth and affordable housing.

• City government beat reporter

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2014

  Covering all that is Corpus Christi by way of city government. Keeping watch over policy, development and spending.



Waco Tribune-Herald

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Public safety/crime reporter

  • Oct 2010 - Sep 2013

  Daily stories on the crime beat, breaking news, enterprise, project and investigative pieces. Daily stories on the crime beat, breaking news, enterprise, project and investigative pieces.



Laredo Morning Times

• City editor/reporter

  • Mar 2010 - Oct 2010

  Oversaw staff reporters, assigned stories, arranged art, edited and copyedited, assisted in breaking news. Also helped cover new outbreak of violence in Nuevo Laredo in summer 2010.

• Arts & Entertainment editor

  • Jul 2007 - Mar 2010

  Headed the weekly entertainment section, generated most of its copy content, wrote columns, features and entertainment news stories. Responsible for arranging all art, overseeing design/dummying pages. Also copyediting and headline-writing.

• County beat/general assignments reporter

  • May 2006 - Jun 2007

  Covered Webb County, along with a smattering of general assignments that included coverage of crime, schools and the city, as well as writing some features.



Texas State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• University Star news editor

  • 2004 - 2006



The University Star

• San Marcos, TX

• News reporter

  • 2003 - 2004

  Started as a freelance reporter, eventually becoming a staff reporter and then news editor, assigning news stories, overseeing staff reporters, editing and copyediting. Started as a freelance reporter, eventually becoming a staff reporter and then news editor, assigning news stories, overseeing staff reporters, editing and copyediting.