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I am a web developer at the University of Houston, and I work in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences' Web Services Department helping departments redesign and update their websites.

Because I juggle a lot of projects at once, I keep all of my clients informed about my progress via Basecamp and a Web site that serves as my staging server. Thingy.

At the Houston Chronicle, I was responsible for the following Neighborhood News Web sites: The Woodlands, Cy-Fair, Spring, Conroe and Tomball.

To modify content on Chron.com pages, an in-house Content Management System called Chronicle Online News Environment (CONE) is used. For a month, I helped train the Chronicle's Features copy desk and I compiled a style manual to help guide them through CONE.

I recently launched a Web site re-design for my first client, Barefoot Drums of Houston. Here is a link to the client's previous Web site.

But before working professionally on the Web, I was a newspaper reporter and editor and I got my first taste of the trade by working on my high school newspaper The Cougar Claw and the Writers Club's annual literary magazine The Oracle. Back then, we used Aldus PageMaker and Adobe Photoshop on Macs that wouldn't be fit to hold a door open these days. If this experience counts — and I say it does — then I have been publishing for 15 years. Though newspapers are quickly becoming obsolete, the art of communicating well never will.

The story War hero comes home, from the Nov. 2, 2005 issue of The Tomball Potpourri, earned an internal company award when judged against other entrants across the Houston Community Newspapers chain and its sister newspapers in Colorado. The story tells the life experiences of one soldier who came home from the Iraq war.

The story School official arrested in sting, from the March 29, 2006 issue of The Tomball Potpourri, is one of my favorites.

Here's my most recent writing sample, a blog post about a Spring resident who caught a power line explosion on video and submitted it to YouTube, during the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. The blog post was also posted in the Spring/Klein/Tomball section of The Houston Chronicle.

Two recent writing samples are from a new feature called "7 Questions" that we've started on the Chron.com Neighborhood News pages. For these features, we e-mail seven questions to sources, they respond back with their answers, and then we edit the piece for spelling, grammar and clarity. The first one I did was with Tonja Jones, the Houston Alumni Organization director of Operation School Supplies. The second one I did was with Adam Silvers, a former Woodlands resident who thought it might be fun to dress up as Hulk Hogan and run through The Woodlands Mall. And video tape it.

I designed this page, using Quark Xpress, which features two photo essays and a nice table that displays the names of Tomball FFA award winners.

Here is an archive of stories I wrote for the Tomball/Magnolia Tribune. The archive highlights my proficiency in HTML tables more than it showcases my writing skills. Of course, I now prefer to use cascading style sheets to design my pages.

Here is a simple Web site I created and maintained for KPFT News that served as an archive of transcripts from the community radio station's newscast which I helped launch.

Thank you for taking the time to review selections from my portfolio.