Resume - Lauren Michell Rabaino

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Summary & Bio Cal Poly journalism student graduating in December 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and experience in graphic design, web development, video production, multimedia reporting and social media strategies.

Experience Creative director, CoPress, May 2009 - Present •

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Designed series of educational videos to help student newsrooms utilize the web and re-think revenue formats Involved in UI design for internal software

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Online and multimedia editor, Mustang Daily June 2008 Aug.2009

Graphic designer, Cal Poly University Housing, Oct. 2008 Present •

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Create print/web materials for on-campus students, incoming/ potential students, parents and alumni (audience of 5,000+) Marketing strategy for the 20082009 resident advisor recruitmen boosted applicant participation 200 percent from the prior year. with use ofYouTube and Facebook Led design initiative for Fall Launch 2009 - a new orientation program for incoming freshmen

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Trained 10 editors and a team of 12 new reporters every 10 weeks how to capture, edit and publish podcasts, audio slideshows, video and package them for the web Migrated our Web site from proprietary to open-source software Co-design and executed a webfirst editorial workflow. Projects include the use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps and Flickr to increase reader engagement. Live streamed/tweeted student government debates and speeches by the university president Started a news wiki for communitygenerated news tips and information

Additional experience & projects Helped redesign Spot.Us, a crowd-funded journalism site, October 2009 Web designer, Stomping Ground Media, Dec. 2008 - Present Reporter, Mustang Daily, June - Aug. 2008, June -Aug. 2009 Intern, Center for Innovation in College Media, Jan. 2009 - April 2009 Design editor, Mustang Daily, June 2007 - June 2008

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Skills Graphic design: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Video production: Premiere, AfterEffects, iMovie, Final Cut, Soundslides Audio editing: SoundBooth, GarageBand, Audacity, Audition Web development: HTML / CSS Limited PHP/ CMSs Social media: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, YouTube, blogging

Broadcast intern, Mayberry Broadcasting Co., June 2007 - Aug.2007 Freelance reporter, Southern Sierra Messenger, June 2006 - June 2007

Education California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, graduating December 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism

References Brady Teufel, Cal Poly new media professor, [email protected] Bryan Murley, Eastern Illinois Univ. new media professor, [email protected]