Resume

OBJECTIVE: Seeking a rewarding yet challenging position in a competitive environment helping with my personal growth and career advancement.


SUMMARY: Graduating journalism honor student with strong research skills, basic reporting, standard publication, online writing skills and knowledge of multimedia software. Creative, curious, self motivated with good judgement and a strong sense of ethics.

EDUCATION:
Texas Southern University Houston, TX
Candidate for a Bachelor of Arts in Communication December 2011
Major: Broadcast Journalism
TSU Honor Roll Spring 2010-Present

EXPERIENCE
April 2010-Present Best Buy Houston,TX
Wireless Sales Consultant

Activate wireless phones,help customers find the correct wireless devices, activate mobile broadband cards, perform upgrade checks, help customers find accessories, and give partial informed advice.

June 2009-August 2009 Walker Entertainment Group Houston, TX
Internship

Assist the CEO with scheduling rehearsals for band members, attend weekly meetings, performed data entry, answered phones on a switch board, helped to arrange the end of the year concert.

August 2008-February 2009 Vitamin World Houston,TX
Assistant Manager

Assist the store manger,manage and train new staff members, open and close the store,prepare bank deposits,help customers find nutritional supplements,balance daily sales logs,display the store,take weekly conference calls, merchandise the store and operate the cash register.


April 2008-August 2008 IRT Houston, TX
Customer Service Agent

Filed insurance claims for Alltel Wireless customers, made sure customers were paying the correct deductibles and premiums and exemplify excellent customer service.


November 2006-March 2008 579 Store Houston, TX
Manager in Training

Supervise staff, Prepare bank deposits, operate the cash register, conduct monthly meetings, open and close the store, merchandise the store and prepare weekly work schedules.

References Available upon request

Current Events Quiz

1. Who was not invited to the Royal Wedding?

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

2.What's happening in Missouri?

The levees broke causing massive floods


3.How many hostages were rescued in a Mexican Border City?

32

4.What happened at an Afghan prison?

Over a hundred prisoners escaped

5.Why is former President Jimmy Carter in North Korea?

To bring peace between N. and S. Korea


6.When and where was the body of a missing North Carolina honor student found?

On Saturday in Maryland


7.What happened in Texas City?

A plant exploded

8.What new device is Apple releasing this week?

The white iPhone4


9.What conclusion did the NFL come to?

The lockout was lifted

10.What's happening around the south?

Deadly tornado's


11.What's the deal with Donald Trump?

He's saying President Obama's birth certificate is not real

12.What's happening with Katie Couric?

She's leaving the Today Show


13.What is the latest with gas prices?

They are steady rising

14. The United States is in debt by how much?

14 trillion


15. Who's leading the Western Conference in the NBA between New Orleans and Los Angeles?

The Lakers


Who are these people and how have they been significant in the news


Kate Middleton -Prince William's fiancee

Nicolette Sheridan -Desperate Housewife star that's going through a lawsuit with the show

Jay Cutler-Chicago Bears quarterback who is now engaged to a reality star

Andrew Towle -Canadian high school student that is autistic who wanted to be on the track team but was banned because of the time he was enrolled in school.

Sam Nzima -South African photographer who exposed apartheid's brutality to the world.

Honors Day

Texas Southern University recently celebrated excellence in achievement at its annual Honors Day Convocation ceremony. The event took place in the HPE Gymnasium on Thursday April 14 at 10:00 a.m.

The university recognized students who are on the President's List, Dean's List, Honor Roll, and who have a 4.0 G.P.A. Each student received an honors medal and recognition in the convocation program.

Guest speaker for the event was Marcus Davis, president of TSU's National Alumni Association. Davis received a bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science in 1996. He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

He owns two very successful and popular restaurants in Houston the breakfast klub and the Reggae Hut. The breakfast klub has received rave reviews from respected media such as Good Morning America, Esquire Magazine, and USA Today. Davis prefers to be known as chief steward of tbk Holdings, Inc. the parent companies of his restaurants.

Marcus Davis credits his success on a good upbringing and God.

"As a child my mother would always call my name, when she called all three names I knew I was in trouble,each one of you are being honored today because your names have been called" Davis said.

Davis talked about how Harriet Tubman led the underground rail road to success.

"Harriet was fed up with being a slave so she decided to escape" Davis said.

"She went back for other enslaved Africans because she heard her name being called to help others" Davis said.

Mr. Davis gives credit to Harriet Tubman for his success and the success of the honorees.

"When she would make the 90 mile journey back and fourth sometimes taking three weeks she was calling your name" Davis said.

Texas Southern was proud to announce that out of 9500 hundred students 2000 of them were on the Honor Roll, some for two semesters.

A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words

The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most powerful movements in American history.

Many witnessed the movement through vivid and sometimes graphic photographs.Photography played a keyrole in the Civil Rights Movement.

Many of the photographs are on display at the Menil Collection. The Whole World Was Watching is curated
by Michelle White, associate curator at the Menil Collection.

This exhibition contains photographs from Civil Rights photographers Dan Budnik, Bruce L. Davidson, Elliot Erwitt,Leonard Freed, and Danny Lyon .

Some of the photos were given to the Menil Collection by Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil daughter of founders John and Dominique de Menil.

"I had to choose between 200 photographs to display in this exhibition" White said.

The title of the exhibition "The Whole World Was Watching" was a phrase adopted as a rallying cry for social change by political groups in the 1960's.


The Exhibition contains photos of black protesters being crushed with water hoses, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and police brutality of African Americans during that time.

The photographers in this exhibition were committed in showing the world what was happening in the south.

One photographer in particular stood out. That photographer was Danny Lyon a twenty year old student from the University of Chicago who wanted to come to the south and show the world the injustice that African Americans were suffering.

"He described his experience as grabbing his camera getting on a bus and heading down south" White said.

"He was the staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" White said.

The images displayed were being circulated in magazines and newspapers throughout the North. The most dramatic images came from those taken in Birmingham.

"Birmingham was known as Bombingham because of all the bombing taking place there" White said.

Images of policemen spraying the protesters with water hoses circulated like wild fire.

"When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw the images of the protesters being sprayed with the water hoses he said it's amazing how something so beautiful can come out of something so horrible referring to the power of the image" White said.

The civil rights movement is similar to what is happening today in other countries.

"It's just like the oppressed people now standing up for what is right" White said.

One of the photographs in the exhibition is that of one taken by Dan Budnik. It is a photograph of a protester carrying an American Flag on the way to Selma while passing by a National Guardsman who salutes the flag.

"The reason the guardsman saluted the protester's flag was because he whipped it out as he was passing by so the guardsman had to salute it, usually if a protester had a flag the National Guardsmen would turn their backs to it" White said.

The Whole World Was Watching exhibition is on display from March 5-September 25,2011. A selection from the collection is also on display at the African American Library at the Gregory School, in Freedman's Town in the Fourth Ward.

The Critic

Eric Harrison recently spoke with advance reporting students about the importance of professionalism. He stated that it is important to be professional at all times and going the extra mile and exceeding expectations on the job is not a bad idea.

Eric Harrison is a movie critic, freelance writer, web developer, and graphic artist. Mr. Harrison's career began at the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in journalism.

Harrison's career did not get off to a good start, he interned at the Austin American Statesman. He went in with the expectation of being hired after the internship.

"The editor took me to lunch he told me we like you and you write well but you did not blow us away" Harrison said.

It is one thing to be confident but being overly confident can kill a dream. Not getting the job from the internship reminded Harrison of when he was in an advanced math class in high school where he knew it all and was a hot shot.

"My teacher took me out of the advance class and put me in a basic course, she said I acted as though I was entitled and things should be given to me" Harrison said.

"I didn't learn my lesson cause I did the same thing at my internship but it was the best thing that happened to me" Harrison said.

When you first get a job go in professionally but be cautious because you are being watched. Harrison compared himself to some of his colleagues saying how great they wrote and that he could never be as great as them.

Harrison got the recognition he wanted from his fellow colleagues at the Star-Telegram.

"When I walked in that morning Lena Williams said there he is and she and the editor applauded me on my first story about Valentine's Day" Harrison said.

"In the end they were rooting for me" Harrison said.

Professional dress is a must. Start putting together a profile to display your work. Always be on time if you cannot be on time call. Harrison's work includes writing for the Los Angeles Times,Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Harrison is the editor of MovieHouston.com.

The Libyan Experience

Communications professor Jaballa Hassan spoke with students about his rebellion and dislike for Muammar Qaddafi.

Imagine living in a country full of injustice and a corrupt leader. That is what the people of Libya live everyday and have been living for the past 42 years.

Jaballa Hassan is a Libyan National who has lived in the United since 1996. Hassan escaped from Libya after being imprisoned for five days for refusing to teach Muammar el Qaddafi's Green Book.

The Green Book is a three-part collection of political thoughts, social and economic theories and day to day how to guides of Libya's Muammar Qaddafi. The book sums up Qaddafi's" Third Universal Theory" designed to be an alternative to capitalism and aesthetic communism. It is required reading in Libya.

"How could I reach common ground with my audience when I talk about this thing" Hassan said.

"I was in solitary confinement for five days in total darkness psychological torture, they thought I was in the CIA" Hassan said.

Being forced to teach something you do not believe in is torture in its self. Co-workers told him to just back down and tell the government he was nothing but Hassan refused.

He managed to escape Libya, many are not as fortunate as he was.

"My relatives smuggled me in a car to Egypt that is how I escaped" Hassan said.

At the time of the escape Hassan escaped with his wife and two children who were 3 and 5 at the time.

"My children were too young to remember, I remember the date April 7th but I try to put it out of my mind" Hassan said.

"I stay up late at night watching the Arabic news channel Alhora online and CNN it's horrible" Hassan said.

Qaddafi has been in office for 42 years the Libyan people want change. There is no communication right now in Libya, the phones and internet are down.

Many Arabic nations are for removing Qaddafi out of office but they want to remain nameless. This is the first time that an Arabic country has called on the United Nations for help.

At the hands of the Qaddafi reign in 1976 25 students were hanged at the local university and in 1996 1200 prisoners were massacred in Abualen Prison.

As a native of Libya Hassan witnessed and lived some of the horrors of Qaddafi's reign. Even though the country is having a major crisis Hassan remains hopeful about the future.

"Only seven percent of the country supports Qaddafi I believe we will have a Democratic and united country" Hassan said.

The Libyan people are suffering right now hopefully one day the country will be united and Qaddafi is removed from office.

Barbara Jordan Lunch Discussion

Texas Southern University recently honored the late great TSU Alumnus Barabara Jordan at a lunch discussion at the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs in the Walter J. McCoyAuditorium.

Special panel guest included Otis King her former debate team member and long time friend, Lestine Leakes her executive assistant of 14 years , and her older sister Rosemary McGowan.

The event honored Barbara Jordan's 75th birthday. The panel relived some of their fondest memories of the Diamond Jubilee. Otis King in particular shared stories of traveling across the country for debate competitions.

"Barbara was the only female traveling with us and she could out drive all the men" King said.

"I was with her at the beginning of her career and I was a pallbearer at her funeral" King said.

Barbara Jordan led an extraordinary career. Pioneering for the little people that did not have a voice.

When asked the question how would Ms. Jordan feel about immigration reform if she were alive Lestine Leakes responed proudly.

"Barbara was a fair person she would have been right their campaigning for immigration rights, she was a joy to work for" Leakes said.

Growing up in a house full of girls, Barbara and her sisters formed a singing group singing Gospel songs and she taught herself to play the guitar.

"My sister was always in the fore front, my father wanted her to become a teacher but she had other plans" McGowan said.

In fact Barbara did teach, she taught social Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. It was one of the most popular classes UT has ever had. The most notable memory is her President Nixon impeachment speech. Known for her powerful voice Barbara Jordan will forever be remembered.