Assistant Managing Editor/Databases & Tech

Direct the news-gathering and production technology of 24-hour metropolitan news organization

  • Promoted to member of senior management committee of eight top managers.
  • Completed development and rollout of Sharepoint-based story-planning CMS. Assemble team; coordinate cross-department efforts; development of forms, views and pages; train staff.
  • Developed database application to tabulate real-time election results for metro Detroit. Outputs to Twitter, print, web and broadcast in XML and HTML. Inputs from reporters, clerks offices, county data and AP-ATOM. Saved hundreds of staff setup hours; best results in market. PHP/MySQL/Ajax.
  • Responsible for innovating web-based journalistic tools. Examples include using the Google Maps API to streamline online mapping, implementing centralized tweeting with Twitter API and rolling out Caspio database tools to streamline online database display.