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Posted on: May 23rd, 2011 by Trey No Comments

 

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George “Trey” Hatt

117 Seguin Apt. 313
Phone: 254.220.3269
San Mar­cos, TX 78666
george.hatt@hotmail.com

 

Skills

News writ­ing, edit­ing, dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy, video edit­ing, visual storytelling

Web design, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, PHP, Word­Press, InDe­sign, Pho­to­shop, social media, Microsoft Office

Mil­i­tary lead­er­ship, organization

Teach­ing mass communication

Writ­ing and editing

 

Expe­ri­ence

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Spe­cial­ist, City of San Mar­cos, July 2011-present. Write and edit press releases, answer media queries, doc­u­ment and adver­tise­ment design, give pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tions, assist with pub­lic out­reach plan­ning. Edit and write for City of San Mar­cos employee newslet­ter and “City Exchange,” a newslet­ter for res­i­dents of San Marcos.

Texas State Uni­ver­sity, Grad­u­ate Teach­ing Assis­tant, August 2010-May 2011. Instruc­tor of record for Edit­ing for Clear Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, 2010–2011 aca­d­e­mic year.

Texas State Uni­ver­sity, Instruc­tion assis­tant, August 2009-August 2010. Instructed two sec­tions of Writ­ing for Mass Media lab dur­ing the 2009–2010 aca­d­e­mic year; taught one sec­tion of the lab dur­ing the 2010–2011 aca­d­e­mic year.

Llano County Jour­nal, Com­mu­nity Edi­tor, Jan­u­ary 2007-August 2009. Func­tioned as pri­mary news reporter, edited copy, assigned sto­ries, laid out pages, made news judg­ments, posted sto­ries and video to the paper’s Web site, and assisted with sports report­ing and ad sales. Per­formed Mac and PC applications.

KTSW 89.9, Stu­dent Radio Sta­tion Vol­un­teer, Sum­mer 2006. Wrote, recorded, edited sto­ries on Adobe Audi­tion for In The Pub­lic Inter­est, a gen­eral inter­est radio news program.

The Ram Page, Staff Writer, Angelo State University’s stu­dent news­pa­per, Spring 2004.

Texas Army National Guard, Armor Crew­man, July 2001-April 2006.

U.S. Army, Armor Crew­man, August 1998-July 2001.

 

Edu­ca­tion

Texas State Uni­ver­sity
Mas­ter of Arts degree May 2011
Mass Com­mu­ni­ca­tion with empha­sis in New Media
Grad­u­ate GPA 4.0/4.0

Texas State Uni­ver­sity
Bach­e­lor of Arts degree Decem­ber 2006
Major: Eng­lish
Minor: Mass Com­mu­ni­ca­tion
Cumu­la­tive GPA 3.7/4.0.
Mem­ber of Alpha Chi national honor soci­ety
Sigma Tau Delta Eng­lish honor society

Texas Army National Guard
Grad­u­ated Pri­mary Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment Course June 2003
Pro­moted to sergeant in July 2003

 

Vol­un­teer work

Hope and Love for Kids, web­site redesign project, Spring 2011.

Grad­u­ate House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Texas State Uni­ver­sity, Fall 2010-Spring 2011.

Austin Friends of Tra­di­tional Music, pub­lic­ity vol­un­teer, Octo­ber 2009. Assisted with pub­lic­ity for the Fourth Annual Austin String Band Fes­ti­val by writ­ing press releases and con­tact­ing media outlets.

Llano Cham­ber of Com­merce, Fourth Annual Texas Proud Pub­lic­ity Chair, spring/summer 2009. Wrote press releases, coor­di­nated with statewide media out­lets to pub­li­cize one of Llano’s biggest up-and-coming festivals.

Awards

First Place News Writ­ing 2007–Texas Press Association

Jour­nal­ist of the Year 2009—West Texas Press Association