Michelle L.

Alfini

www.michellealfini.wordpress.com

54 Cypresspointe Ct. | Severna Park, MD 21146 | 410-412-6016 | michellealfini@gmail.com

Communications Experience
Elon Local News, Elon University, Reporter/Anchor

August 2013 present

Record, write and edit news packages, VOSOTs or readers for broadcasts
Contribute news stories to website
Operate video playback, camera or audio board during live broadcasts
Served as Web Update Anchor for Winter Term 2014

Win Stuff, Elon University, Executive Producer

August 2012 present

Oversee production and design blocking plans for weekly episodes

Manage production crew
Choose content and episode themes
Write questions for weekly episodes

WXII-12 News (NBC), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, News Intern

May August 2014

Wrote VO and VOSOT scripts alongside producers

Produced news packages alongside reporters and photographers
Booth produced 30 minute newscasts
Trained on camera equipment and Adobe Premiere
Logged interviews for reporters
Assisted with production of live shots and in-studio newscasts

WNAV 1430, Annapolis, Maryland, Intern

Wrote news readers and rewrote and uploaded the stories to website
Instructed staff on use of social media to spread news and market station
Recorded and edited 2-3 minute newscasts
Anchored live during 4th of July holiday

Work Experience
Assistant Director in World Languages Lab

May August 2013

September 2013 present

Assist world language professors

Manage lab assistants
Digitize foreign language films for class usage
Administer Foreign Language Placement Test

Skills
Fluent in Spanish; proficient in Avid Media Composer, Final Cut 10, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition and
Adobe Photoshop; experience operating a jib, RIFA lights, SONY video cameras

Education
Elon University, Elon, NC

Expected Graduation May 2016

Bachelor of Arts: Broadcast Journalism, Spanish Language

Honors: Lumen Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, Honors
Fellow, Presented research at National Conference on Undergraduate Research April 2014
GPA: 3.9, Presidents List

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

August December 2014

Semester abroad in Quito, Ecuador for Spanish language immersion

Courses taken: Introduccin a Documental, Sociedad y Gnero, Cultura Ecuatoriana, Antroploga
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