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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.

Here is a work-in-progress for my first client I recently signed after starting my own freelance web design business. I am re-designing the client's existing Web site and I should be done with phase one of my work this week. Here is the work I've done so far for Barefoot Drums of Houston. Hurricane Ike and other events have stalled the installation of the completed design on the client's server for the time being.

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.