Jay O’Brien

4475 Carter Creek Parkway, #814 Bryan, TX 77802 Jay O’Brien email:-mobile:- EDUCATION Ithaca College, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Class of 2017 Major: Television and Radio, GPA: 3.8, Magna Cum Laude Graduate PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Anchor/MMJ, KAGS TV June 2017— Anchor and Executive Produce KAGS’s 6pm and 10pm broadcasts. File reports daily, write and edit broadcast scripts and web articles. Also, direct daily assignments and news coverage. KAGS is the NBC in Bryan-College Station, Texas. Senior Writing Tutor, Ithaca College August 2015 - June 2017 Tutor students in the college’s writing center. Edit grammar, syntax, and help students build and execute outlines. Assisted in research and crafting argument. Worked with regular clients to help improve sentence structure and writing tone. Internship, MSNBC, MSNBC Live June -August 2016 Intern for the 10am hour of MSNBC Live. Produced my own segments, writing the script and picking VO, graphics, and stills. Assisted segment producers with research, as well as logging and cutting video. Booked guests and helped coordinate reporter hits. Internship, NBC News Washington D.C. Bureau January - May 2016 Intern for NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams and his producer, Mike Kosnar. Assisted in cutting packages for NBC Nightly News and Today. Conducted research, contacted sources, set up interviews, and logged pressers and events. Covered breaking stories for NBC News and wrote news articles for NBCNews.com as well as MSNBC.com. Internship, MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell Reports June -August 2015 Intern on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports. Provided research for interviews and segments. Logged pressers and congressional hearings. Wrote scripts and banners for air, as well as maintained the show’s blog for MSNBC.com. Project Manager, French Press Media LLC. June 2014-July 2015 Responsible for project management and client relations, developing and implementing media strategies. Worked with clients to create brand identity and comprehensive marketing campaigns. Key clients include: Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Growing Great Schools. ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS • Lambda Pi Eta, Communications Honor Society (2017-)- National Communications Honor Society, inductees must have above 3.8 GPA and excellent extracurriculars • Kappa Sigma Fraternity- Grand Master -) - Spearheaded creation of Tau-Rho Chapter, as Colony President. Subsequently, elected Chapter President. • SufLield Academy Torch Leadership Society (2012-) SKILLS Broadcast Journalism, iNews, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier, ProTools, DSLR Cameras, Television Studio Production, Adobe Photoshop, Social Media, PowerPoint, Writing.