Carl V. Lewis CONTACT 266 Washington Ave [email protected] D9 http://carlvlewis.net, Brooklyn, NY 11205 http://linkedin.com/in/carlvlewis (912) 816-7007 OVERVIEW A post-platform journalist, web developer, design thinker, product manager, interaction designer, digital media educator and data visualization developer with more than 7 years of experience in data journalism, news graphics, newsroom interactive storytelling, curriculum design, digital publishing, homepage editing, product management, media entrepreneurship, digital strategy/social media management, mobile front-end design/development, interaction programming and Wordpress/Drupal content management development. EDUCATION M.S. in Digital Media, Honors. Aug. 2011 — May 2012 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism -Specializations in data visualization, interactive design, audience engagement and consumer reporting. -Awarded multiple honors designations, including only honor's status in entire cohort for Data Journalism focus and Journalism Business Models focus. -Elected as online editor and officer for Society of Professional Journalists chapter, the school's official student governing body. -Built new SPJ site from scratch using Twitter Bootstrap as a framework built on top of the popular WordPress CMS. -Grew SPJ digital audience reach among class from 150 per week to 1,482 unique impressions per week. -Served as online editor for Society for Hispanic Journalists, building organization's website and leading initial marketing efforts. (Recommendations provided from Susan E. McGregor, Ava Seave and Daniel Medina; Arlene Morgan, Sree Srenevasian and Rebecca Castillo may also be contacted as references). B.A. in Journalism, B.A. in Southern Studies, Aug. 2007 — May 2011 Honors. Mercer University -Graduated summa cum laude with a 3.94 GPA, University Honors, Presidential Service Fellowship and the annual Jimmy Carter Award for Community Outreach and Public Service, given to a graduating senior who exemplifies the school's long-held tradition of servant leadership and community activism by Pres. Carter, a member of the University's Board of Trustees. -Named "Most Outstanding Journalism Graduate" and "Most Outstanding Southern Studies Graduate." -Named one of two outstanding graduates for "Great Books," Mercer's interdisciplinary literature program that allows qualified, high-scoring students to replace their core curriculum requirements with a series of intensive discussion-driven and essay-heavy readings of texts that have shaped the Western canon. Carl V. Lewis 1 SELECTION OF COURSES TAKEN (All A+) -Digital Media Storytelling (A) -News Writing Basics (A) -Journalism Ethics (A) -Journalism Law (A) -Southern Food (A) -African-American History I, II (A) -Media Studies (A) -African-American Literature (A) -Southern Journalists (A) -Servant Leadership (A) -Urban Revitalization: Practices and Theories (A) -Applied Statistics (A) -Data Journalism (A) - Introduction to Computer Science (A) COURSES TAUGHT: -"UNV 101" -An introduction to life "beyond the shadows of Plato's cave," or an introduction for college freshman to the journey of their next four years. Taught course as a Peer Advisor in a pass/fail environment. -"JMS 262 - Civic and Community Journalism" - After applying for and receiving a micro-grant from the Knight Foundation, I led Dr. Jay Black's Civic and Community Journalism course in the spring of 2008 to build an online student-produced guide to the City of Macon – a semester-long project in which I regularly provided feedback, scheduled one-on-one time with fellow peers who needed extra learning time and consulted with Dr. Black on the class' progress weekly to help determine student grades based on not just their own content, but their contribution and collaboration with the team. COURSES DEVELOPED: -"SST 480: Schizoprenia, Relocation and Dislocation in the Minds of Southern Journalists" – With oversight from Southern Studies and English Professor Dr. David A. Davis – as well as input from Dr. Jay Chalfa from the Journalism and Media Studies Department – I assembled the curriculum and format for this independent study course, which analyzes the historical writings of prominent southern journalists to highlight the identity crisis of claiming a regional culture so blind to its own inhumanities, with a level of worldliness and fact-based observation that only journalists have traditionally had. The course is now regularly included in the SST and JMS curriculum. Dr. David A. Davis may be contacted as a reference. COURSES PRECEPTED: -"FYS 101: Composing the Self," under the leadership of Dr. David A. Davis. -"Southern Studies in the Classroom," a summer-long course for high-school teachers funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and held at Mercer University. (Recommendations provided from Dr. Jay Black, Grant Blankenship and Josh Rogers; Dr. Sarah Gardner, Debbie Blankenship, Andrew Haeg, Dr. Tom Huber, Dr. David A. Davis, Dr. John Chalfa and Dean Larry Brumley may also be contacted for references). St. Peter's College International Studies Aug. 2009 — Jun. 2010 Course University of Oxford, St. Peter's College -Earned all "Alphas" during selective year-long course of study at Oxford's St. Peter's College for visiting students. -Hired as news editor for The Oxford Student newspaper during my second term, which I later parlayed into "Online Carl V. Lewis 2 Editor" overseeing the successful implementation of a digital overhaul for the publication. Asked to stay on as Editor- in-Chief, but unfortunately had to fulfill requirements at my undergraduate institution and was unable to do so. -Trained student editors, veteran and first-timers, on the basic components of the traditional industrialized American news writing formula. -Assigned stories, laid out news pages, budgeted editorial content and reported dozens of own investigations. -Formatted content for the web, including adding hyperlinks, photos and optimizing stories for social sharing. TUTORIALS (COURSES) TAKEN: -Celtic History -Cold War Media Propaganda -The Philosophy and Dogma of Nietzsche -Western Media Impact in Developing Nations -British History -Educational Technology (Recommendations provided from Winston Featherly-Bean and Tom Rowley; Penelope Francis-Warner and Dr. John Jackson may also be contacted as references.) WORK EXPERIENCE Tow Center for Digital Journalism Oct. 2014 — present Research Assistant -Assisting in Tow Center's research endeavors. -Preparing own research for upcoming report on optimizing data visualization projects for mobile users. Vocativ Aug. 2014 — Sept. 2014 Data Journalism Consultant -Invited to serve as one-month, in-house training consultant for Vocativ.com's rapidly expanding Manhattan newsroom, primarily teaching reporters how to incorporate and visualize data in their stories in a way that sheds a new light on the story for users. Center for Collaborative Journalism at Jun. 2013 — present Mercer University Adjunct instructor, faculty news organization advisor -Teach courses on JavaScript, HTML and CSS basics, mobile development best-practices, real-time reporting, data journalism and visual storytelling. -Serve alongside faculty, journalists and media professionals as an instructor for annual Camp CCJ for digital media students at Center for Collaborative Journalism. -Spoken on panels with editors and professors, including "How is Journalism Different in the Digital Age?", "Social Media for Journalists", "Building a Brand as a Journalist" and "Mobile App Development with Little-to-No Programming Experience." -Led lightning talks on topics including "Making the Business of Digital Journalism Work", "Audience and Metrics" and "Wireframing, Prototyping and UX." -Serve as advisor for student news organization, The Cluster, leading quarterly workshops and remotely helping fix problems as they may arise on mercercluster.com. Oversaw 2014 redesign of site. Borrow.ly March 2003 — Present Co-Founder Carl V. Lewis 3 -Upon receiving a $5,000 exploratory grant from The Collaborative Fund in early 2014, my business partner and I set out to build the product I long believed could help shift decades of audience and revenue loss at daily newspapers from the once-lucrative classified advertising section, revenue which was swiftly poached by P2P exchanges such as Craigslist and eBay. -We built the product using the Ruby on Rails programming language, and it received widespread acclaim and a loyal local audience in our initial target market in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. -Briefly named "one of Silicon Alley's hottest civic-tech startups" by StartupBoost. -Unforeseen circumstances, including the death of my mother and my business partner's acceptance of a full-time offer at Google, shelved the project for the time being. Shuttl.es April 2014 — July 2014 Instructor, "Basics of Modern Web Design" -Taught a 12-week micro-learning course via email and in person at the Brooklyn-based TinyLabs, NYC. -Instructed students ranging in age from as young as 15 to as old as 52. -5 in-person classes, 20 micro-lessons digitally. Jacksonville Daily-Record Jan. 2013 — Feb. 2014 Newsroom Change Consultant -Developed device-agnostic stylesheet and more user-friendly editorial placement of content. -Monetized digital presence with local display and inline ads. -Presented legal, real estate and public notice data in interactive format. -Implemented integrated print and digital CMS that uses Google Docs as intermediary between InCopy and Wordpress. -Trained staffers/journalists on