Michael Bower

3803 Marquette Place Apt. 4J • San Diego, CA • 92106 • (510) 304-6230 • mbower33@gmail.com

SUMMARY OF • Highly experienced in communications, including strong writing, editing,

researching and interviewing skills.
QUALIFICATIONS • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize work load and meet
deadlines in high-pressure situations.
• Knowledgeable with AP style and familiar with website and blog
writing.
• Experienced with performing administrative tasks, including
maintaining tear sheets, filing, billing, data entry, customer support and
updating websites.
• Ability to interview effectively and generate work product that reaches
a targeted audience.
• Local to the San Diego area, able to interview or start immediately.

EDUCATION B.A. in Print Journalism and Minor in Sociology, California State University Long
Beach, CA (2004)
A.A. in Liberal Arts, Ohlone College, CA (2002)

EXPERIENCE Contract Work, California

Crittenden (October 2009 – Present)
• Cover Presidio League soccer games.
• Write game stories and feature stories.
• Establish a social network within the soccer community.
Alameda Newspaper Group (August 2005 – September 2005)
• Covered high school athletics.
• Wrote game stories under extreme deadline pressure.
Orange County Register (September 2003 – December 2003)
• Covered high school football games
• Wrote game stories under extreme deadline pressure.

Local Sports Bureau Chief/Sports Reporter, Bay Area News Group, Hayward, CA
(September 2005 – October 2009)
• Organized sports coverage of 18 high schools and three colleges.
• Assigned coverage to a staff of correspondents.
• Wrote feature stories, game stories, news stories, columns, investigative stories
and blog entries under extreme deadline pressure.
• Copy edited stories for grammar and factual errors.
• Interviewed athletes, administrators, coaches and parents.
• General office work (answered phone calls, data entry, filing and billing).
• Tracked statistical leaders and standings using Microsoft Excel.
 • Tracked individual statistics while covering football, baseball and basketball
games.
• Created live video streaming Internet show, “Prep Corner Live!” and increased
page views by 25 percent.
• Started a blog (Prep Corner) and increased its page views to eventually average
60,000 hits per month and topped out at 139,000 hits in a month – ranked second in
the company.
• Used Coveritlive, Facebook and Twitter to report on live events and developed a
strong social network.
• Scheduled photographers to cover events.

Player Participation, National Football League (Fall 2007 and 2008)

• Input data using 10-key.
• Scanned photographs for player jersey numbers and entered them into system.

Sports Editor/Reporter, Daily 49er, Long Beach, CA (August 2002 – December 2004)
• Interviewed pro baseball players: Troy Tulowitzki, Jered Weaver and Jason
Vargas.
• Named Best Sports Writer of Spring 2003.
• Organized coverage of Cal State University Long Beach sports.
• Managed and assigned stories to a staff of three.
• Wrote headlines and designed pages.
• Copy edited stories.

Engineer Aide, Kaiser Electronics A Rockwell Collins Company, San Jose, CA

(Summers 2000-2003)
• Filed and organized computer database.
• Built symbols for schematics using Mentor Graphics.
• Input data.
• Assisted engineers with making copies and faxing paperwork.

COMPUTER • Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).

SKILLS • Jazbox
• PC and Mac capable.
• Adobe Acrobat.
• Type 72 WPM (certified Nov. 30, 2009).
• 10-key proficient.
• Internet Savvy.
• Social Networks.
• Mentor Graphics.
• Wordpress.
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST