Charles Lindsay Scott

clscott@smu.edu www.linkedin.com/in/charleslscott www.charleslindsayscott.com

Experience:
For Love & Art Member of Board of Directors (June 2013 Present) For Love & Art is a 501c3 non-profit agency committed to healing patients by using art therapy via the agencys product, the Virtual Museum Artbook. Assist in social media implementation and strategy. Assist in decision making during board meetings and board conference calls. The Dallas Morning News Staff Writer (Aug. 2012 Dec. 2012) Paid internship. Worked Mondays and Tuesdays from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Reported and wrote breaking news briefs under tight deadlines for the paper and website, dallasnews.com. Reported and wrote two feature news articles that were published in the paper and online. Super Water Sympathy Super Water Sympathy is a nationally touring alternative rock band from Shreveport, Louisiana. Tour Manager VANS Warped Tour 2012 (July 5 July 22, 2012) Traveled on the road for seventeen-day stretch of tour as Tour Manager. Created and implemented social media strategies to boost audience interaction, media coverage and overall online presence. Designed, updated and maintained official band website. Collected all merchandise sales and maintained accurate inventory count. Coordinated daily equipment load in and out in high stress environments. Press Representative (Dec. 2011 March 2012) Wrote 23 press releases and distributed to media outlets based on tour route. Wrote band bio for website and Wikipedia page. Recruited third party to create Wikipedia page. Increased band coverage 30 percent. Smudailycampus.com Contributing writer (Aug. 2011 May 2013) Reported and wrote nine spot news stories and six feature news stories. Wrote tech and political blogs. Dallas South News Contributing writer (Jan. 2012 May 2012) Reported and wrote two feature news stories. Pegasus News Contributing writer (Jan. 2012 May 2012) Reported and wrote two feature news stories. Created one info graphic. Theotherperspective.net Founder, editor, writer (Oct. 2010 Dec. 2011) Theotherperspective.net was a web-publication covering student culture at SMU. Recruited and lead a team of 15 writers, three editors, and a photographer. Wrote, edited and assigned stories to contributing writers. Managed and formatted entire website, theotherperspective.net (now defunct).

Skills:

Production: Familiar with Final Cut Pro 7, Garage Band, Audacity, and versatile using Canon SLR cameras. Computer Skills: Microsoft (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Soundslides, Wordpress, Tumblr, Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Youtube, Soundcloud) Organizations: Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Feb. 2012 Present) Golden Key International Honor Society (Jan. 2012 Present) Alpha Lambda Delta (May 2010 Present) Education: Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) GPA: 3.531 Major: Journalism; Minor: Philosophy Certificate of completion (Summer Business Institute 2013), Cox School of Business.