Want to get in touch? You can email me at Jason@BeTheShoe.com
Want to get in touch? You can email me at Jason@BeTheShoe.com
Lawrence, Kansas, Feb 2012-Present
Joining the shop that invented Django to work on the Ellington CMS. To be continued...
Kansas City, Aug 2010-Feb 2012
One of two web designers responsible for building and maintaining the Star's entire digital portfolio. We work with various stakeholders to support editorial staff with effective design and development solutions with limited resources and tight deadlines.
I designed, developed and maintained a wide variety of microsites, blogs, and niche products, built up a collection of tools to automate tedious tasks and save people time, ported the entire stack over to cloud hosting, integrated the newroom's new content management system into our homegrown Python/Django environment, and worked closely with writers and editors to ensure it all suited their needs.
Columbia, Aug 2009-Dec 2009
Designed the front page of the Columbia Missourian daily newspaper. Worked on deadline to create clean, content-oriented designs that make the paper more appealing to readers.
New York, Jun 2009-Aug 2009
Interned in New Ventures and Syndicated Research departments. Helped maintain ongoing studies and contributed to new research projects. Participated in the Emerging Media Subgroup.
Columbia, Jan 2009-May 2009
Kept station website up to date with latest newscast, and co-developed MoneyCommons, a collective effort between local news organizations to cover the economy.
Columbia, May 2008-Aug 2008
Worked as a beat reporter for the Columbia Missourian daily newspaper. Covered Neighborhoods, an experimental project in hyperlocal journalism, and Public Safety (crime/courts beat).
St. Louis, Jun 2007-Aug 2007
Interned as a media analyst, auditing advertising in print and television. Developed web-based training site and accompanying materials.
