Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi

Joseph A. "Jody" Correro Jr. 1415 Terrace Road, Cleveland, MS 38732 Home: 662-843-0715 Work: 662-846-4072 Home: [email protected] Work: [email protected]

Experience

* May 1977 – June 2002. Director, Marketing and Media Relations; Sports Information Director (7/1981- 7/1993); Assistant Public Information Officer/Assistant Sports Information Director

* Managed and directed staff of three full-time employees, three graduate assistants and four student workers in the Office of Media Relations/Public Information and Sports Information and a $200,000 budget for 9 years.

*Work daily with local, area, state and national print and electronic media, including ESPN, CBS, ABC, NBC (Today Show/Sports), USA Today. Know the information media needs and wants and how to present it to them.

* Author, editor and writer of 95 percent of all printed and electronically delivered news releases. Assisted in the design and maintenance of the office's Public Information Web Page. Developed and designed weekly web newsletter for internal and external constituencies.

* Direct Recruiting and College Relations' advertising thrust for 9-plus years, as well as that of many of the other Colleges' various Divisions and Departments on campus.

* Assist in writing, editing, design and marketing of recruiting, public relations and athletics' marketing publications.

* Accomplished many of the same tasks while serving as Sports Information Director, Campus Photographer, Student Newspaper and Student Annual adviser for 16 years.

* Instructor in English Composition, Expository Writing, Technical Writing and Journalism (1994-present)

* Illinois Central Railroad Corporate Relations, Chicago, Illinois June 1970 - May 1971, Assistant Editor of Main Line of Mid-America, ICRR's corporate magazine

Various Daily Mississippi Newspapers, June 1968 - June 1970 & June 1971-February 1974

* Sports Editor, Delta Democrat-Times; Sports & City News Editor, McComb Enterprise-Journal, respectively; News & Editorial Page Editors, Greenwood Commonwealth

* Wrote and edited news, sports, columns, feature articles and edited and wrote editorials for The Greenwood Commonwealth, 1972-74.

* Photographed and managed own b/w darkroom work at all three newspapers.

Education: Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi May 1991, Master of Science in English Education June 1968, Bachelor of Arts in English. Minor in French, Journalism. Technical Skills/Proficiencies * Excellent written and communicative skills * Intermediate experience in Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect * Intermediate skills in Windows XP and 98; Microsoft Front Page/Editor; * Basic skills in Macromedia Flash4, DreamWeaver web publishing software; * Basic skills in QuarkExpress, Excel, Outlook, MS Publisher * Advanced in E-mail composition/Preferences/Web navigation * Advanced skills with digital camera and 35 mm cameras * Novice in spoken French and Spanish; basic in reading/understanding French, Spanish and Latin