Odyssey.

In May 2016, I traded Indiana cornfields for New York skyscrapers. In NYC, I was an assistant managing editor at Odyssey - you know, the company that coined the phrase "Dad-Bod." At Odyssey, I managed 12 communities of 240 writers, and edited more than 240 articles each week.

In addition to editing, I optimized each story for best SEO practices. I wrote the social data metadata for each post to seamlessly edge toward to top of a basic Google search and attract the right audience on social media. I practiced growth-hacking skills, which gave one of my communities the most page views of the entire company (3.3 million, to be exact.)

Indiana University

The community at IU was made up of traditional and non-traditional students. As their AME, I was able to stay informed on newsworthy information happening in my home state, and help grow the journalistic passion and practice of 26 college students. 

Norwich University

As AME, I grew the Norwich University journalism community from a team of 8 content creators to a team of 20 content writers and editors. Because our hard work, Norwich University received over 3 million page views to their articles, making them the most viewed Odyssey community.

Virginia Military Institute

I launched the VMI community from scratch. Within 3 months, I established 12 writers and 2 editors. VMI was a strict military college, and the students wrote newsworthy articles derived from their political and military training. In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, it was my responsibility to fact-check every article before publishing.

These are just 3 of the 12 communities I managed. If you would like to hear about others, reach out!