Career

Resume

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Skills:
  • Coding: HTML, R, MATLab, IBM SPSS
  • Graphic and Web Design: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver
  • Writing: technical writing, news and feature writing, AP style
  • Public Speaking: with and without accompanying presentation
  • Creating Surveys for Research: Qualtrics, Google Forms
  • Photography
Paid Positions:
  • Student Assistant at The STEAM Factory, Columbus, OH, November 2018-Present
  • Wallace-Carver Fellow at USDA-ARS NCAUR, Peoria, IL, June-August 2017
  • Wallace-Carver Fellow at USDA-ARS TMRU, Athens, GA, June-August 2015
Extracurriculars:
  • SEMI-ME Research Lab in the School of Communications, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2018-Present
  • Honors & Scholars Content Creators and Social Media Team, 2017-2018
  • CFAES Student Council Liaison for Citation Needed, 2017-2018

Breaking into the Field of Photography

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Photo taken at High Falls State Park

I took an introductory course in photography over spring break, 2018.  Twelve students and one professor all piled into two vans and road-tripped down to Georgia, stopping and taking photos along the way.  All told, we stopped in nine states and traveled 2456.4 miles.

Over the course of the week, we learned to use our cameras and worked to become proficient in photography, photo editing, and image composition techniques used in the agricultural communications field

Photo of spiderweb taken on Red Top Mountain

You can view the photos I submitted for my assignments during the week on my Flickr account.

Writing Samples

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The following are links to articles I have written for various student publications at The Ohio State University:

ACEL Student Blog 2018

Czech Republic Education Abroad Student Blog 2018

Honors & Scholars Chronicle 2018

CFAES Student Blog 2017

CFAES Student Blog 2016

 

The following are papers I have written for class:

Final project for journalism class – my portion of a group project about study abroad opportunities at OSU for COMM 2221: Media Writing and Editing

News/issue feature article for feature writing class – a feature length article about the recent decline in bee populations written for AGRCOMM 5194

Formal Report – the final report written for ENGLISH 3305: Technical Writing. This was a group project so not every section was written by me; my sections were the Executive Summary, Objective, Analysis, First Usability Test and Results, Second Usability Test and Results, Final Revisions and Future Considerations, Conclusions and Recommendations, and Appendix A

By Design

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When I first found out I would be taking a graphic design class as one of my major requirements, I was a little worried.  I tend to be more of an analytical thinker, so I was concerned that I would struggle with the creative aspect of graphic design.  However, much to my delight, the creative process is surprisingly logical.

The logo of an imaginary company I created for my graphic design class

For our first assignment, we learned to use InDesign to create vector graphics for a logo of a company (real or made up) of our choice.  We learned how to work with typography and color theory to make a cohesive product and how to avoid making common design mistakes.  The two big pieces of advice were: one, keep it simple; and two, if  you don’t know how to do something, google it.

All in all, I came to realize that there was no big mystery or need for mystical creative powers to be able to be good at graphic design.  Graphic design, like anything, is a skill that I was able to learn.