Resume

• 2015

  Certificate

  10-week software engineering fellowship exclusively for women; 5% acceptance rate\nFocus on full-stack web development with Python

  Flask

  HTML/CSS

  Javascript/jQuery

  Ajax

  SQL/SQLAlchemy\nDatabase management with SQLAlchemy and SQLite\nIntegrate interactive design skills with back-end engineering with goal of developing news applications

  Software Engineering

  Hackbright Academy

• 2010

  Master of Science

  Focus on Health & Science reporting and Interactive Publishing concentrations.

  Journalism

  News21

  Graduate Student Council

  Northwestern University

  Human-Computer Interaction

  Intro to Computer Science (Python)

  Facilitating an Online Course

  Marquette University

• 2006

  Bachelor of Arts

  Editor of Marquette Journal student lifestyle magazine; copy editor

  designer and reporter for Marquette Tribune student newspaper; hosted weekly talk show for Marquette Radio student media

• Play Responsibly: Guitar Makers Seek Sustainable Sound

  Next time you go to smash your guitar after a particularly rocking concert

  realize that you may be destroying a section of a 250-year-old spruce tree

  a rare cut of mahogany

  or a slice of endangered Brazilian rosewood. Musical instruments don't use much timber

  but when they do

  it's usually prized wood.

  Play Responsibly: Guitar Makers Seek Sustainable Sound

  Exclusive video: SomeKindaWonderful talks inspiration

  performs 'Reverse' at Summerfest - JSOnline

  Up-and-coming pop rockers SomeKindaWonderful made their festival debut at Summerfest on Saturday

  headlining the U.S. Cellular Connection Stage. The band's appearance was a late addition to the Big Gig's lineup and the group's first show in the Midwest

  though they have Midwestern roots: The band formed after surreptitiously meeting in a bar in Cleveland

  Ohio

  and wrote the song \"Reverse\" on the same night.

  Exclusive Video: SomeKindaWonderful at Summerfest

  Summerfest 2013 - Exclusive Video: Rick Springfield talks about Milwaukee

  where Jessie's girl is today - JSOnline

  Milwaukee denizen and ladies' favorite Rick Springfield gave an exciting power-pop rock show to a diverse crowd at Summerfest last night. Less than an hour before taking the stage as the Uline Warehouse headliner

  Springfield sat down with Journal Sentinel music writer Piet Levy to answer 10 questions for Tap Milwaukee.

  Exclusive Video: Rick Springfield talks about Milwaukee

  where Jessie's girl is today

  Summerfest: Alex Clare performs 'Three Hearts' - JSOnline Video

  British singer-songwriter Alex Clare performs 'Three Hearts' on a paddleboat at Summerfest for a Tap Pre-Show before his 10 p.m. show at the U.S. Cellular Connection Stage on July 3. Video by Sara J. Martinez

  Video: Summerfest: Alex Clare performs 'Three Hearts' on a paddleboat

  Video: Casting call for Toto in Skylight Music Theatre's 'Wizard of Oz'

  It will take a lot of heart

  brains and courage to play one crucial role on stage this winter. The Skylight Music Theatre had an open casting call for the role of Toto in its upcoming production of \"The Wizard of Oz\" on Monday.

  saramartinez/tv-or-not-tv

  tv-or-not-tv - Final project for Hackbright / winter 2015

  Hackbright final project (Github): TV or Not TV

  Sara J. Martinez

  Sara J. Martinez is a reporter for the Medill News Service. She was previously a Pulliam Fellow at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix and a Dow Jones News Fund intern at The Journal News in White Plains

  New York.

  Sara J. Martinez

  Best of Brew City mobile guide to going out

  Design and content development for mobile guide to going out in Milwaukee.

  Plan the perfect Milwaukee weekend and find drink specials with the Best of Brew City app

  your mobile guide to going out in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's application is available to download for free from the iTunes App Store and Google Play for Android phones.

  How the iPod and Other Audio Devices Are Destroying Your Ears

  Damage from music is not always permanent

  but some audiologists have seen mp3-inflicted issues so strong that hearing aids were needed Portable music players may be contributing to permanent hearing loss among many casual listeners

  gradually leading to the inability to discern speech.

  How the iPod and Other Audio Devices Are Destroying Your Ears

  96 books for your summer reading list - JSOnline

  By Jim Higgins of the Journal Sentinel The Milwaukee Public Library has a suggestion for teens this summer that could apply to all of us: \"Put your face in a book!\" If you want the youth in your home

  finally free of the burden of required school reading

  to pick up a book for fun this summer

  why not show them how by picking one up yourself?

  Story Design: 96 books for your summer reading list

  Handling the Rough Game: The Slow Evolution of Sports Medicine

  In 1980

  a torn ACL could end a professional athlete's career. Today

  minor surgery and proper rehabilitation can get a player back on his feet before the season's end. In 1980

  an on-field brain injury could be overlooked. Today

  a hit to the head can sideline a player for weeks as he recovers from a concussion.

  Handling the Rough Game: The Slow Evolution of Sports Medicine

  Hank's Day Out: Where should he go next? - JSOnline

  Hank the dog is now a cross-country traveler and media icon for the Milwaukee Brewers. So we started to wonder: What's Hank's next big adventure? We took the ballpark pup's publicity photo (pup-licity photo?) and Photoshopped him in to various scenes. Where will he go next?

  Hank's Day Out: Where should he go next?

  The man

  the mission and the moon

  Exclusive interview with Apollo 13 commander and Milwaukee native Capt. James A. Lovell

  Marquette Journal: The man

  the mission and the moon

  saramartinez (Sara J. Martinez)

  saramartinez has 14 repositories written in Python

  CSS

  and JavaScript. Follow their code on GitHub.

  Github

  The future of innovation

  For 15 seconds

  the robots run on an automatic program - some starting with a bright yellow inner tube gripped in the claw of the robot arm and trying to hang the special round \"Uber tube\" on the wall. This is called the \"Autonomous Period.\"

  Organize annual campaign for Milwaukee Newspaper Guild

  United Way of Greater Milwaukee

  Board Member

  cocktails+craft

  Facilitator

  Guide 6th-12th grade girls through the Girls Who Code club curriculum

  helping them to build sisterhood within the Club and learn to use computer science to impact their community. Learn alongside girls as they explore the foundational computer science concepts of variables

  loops

  conditionals and functions.

  Girls Who Code

  Coach

  Volunteer at annual DjangoGirls workshop to guide small group of women through installation and DjangoGirls tutorial

  writing a complete blog application in Django and deploying it to PythonAnywhere.

  Django Girls

  Volunteer

  Maintain social media accounts during specific times to promote the organization and raise awareness about diversity issues in science and technology industry.

  Techtonica

  Chicago Marathon operations

  Race-day volunteer for annual Bank of America Chicago Marathon

  a World Marathon Major event with 45

  000 participants

  approximately 1.7 million spectators and more than 12

  000 volunteers.\n2013

  2016: Start corral volunteers regulate access to the start corrals

  control flow through pedestrian crosswalks and keep participants organized as they move toward the start line to kick off their Chicago Marathon journeys.\n2014: Working at finish line to reward and congratulate athletes as they complete their 26.2-mile journey.

  Bank of America

  jQuery

  SQL

  JavaScript

  Project Planning

  SQLite

  Interaction Design

  CSS

  SQLAlchemy

  Front-end Development

  Web Design

  HTML

  React.js

  User Experience

  Web Development

  Flask

  Python

  Bootstrap

  Github

  AJAX

  Git

  Best of Brew City: What to do in Milwaukee

  Best of Brew City is a mobile guide to going out in Milwaukee available as a smartphone web app and in the App Store and Google Play. The app helps locals and visitors to Milwaukee locate bars

  restaurants

  drink specials

  live music and events

  and provides a combination of crowd-sourced and highly curated content.\n\nBest of Brew City is a cross-departmental effort between the Journal Sentinel newsroom

  advertising

  marketing and information technology. I am the content strategist and project manager for the effort.

  Jessie Safoshnik

  Rohit Dhiman

  Ezekiel Chentnik

  Marquette University

  Slate Magazine

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  Democracy Works

  Medill News Service

  The Arizona Republic

  News21

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Core contributor to the Process Modeling subsystem (UI and Microservice back end)\nOwned major features such as workflow task timeline

  company calendar

  etc.\nCo-maintainer and supporter of the engineering department's internal open source toolset

  building reusable components and evangelizing the correct use of these tools across varying teams to ensure efficiency and consistency in the look and quality of our product\nWorked with React/Redux

  Node.js

  Postgres

  Heroku and HTML/Stylus

  Summer 2010 fellowship in copy editing and page design.\n\nWorked on universal desk

  responsible for production-level copy editing on articles and graphic elements as well as at least one A1 and B1 story each night. Wrote headlines

  cutlines/summaries/refers/teasers. Adhered to local style and AP style

  learned geography of metro Phoenix area.\n\nOccasionally responsible for page layout of Inside A section.

  Pulliam Fellow

  Phoenix

  Arizona Area

  The Arizona Republic

  Milwaukee

  WI

  June 2013-Jan 2015. Web production and content development for the Journal Sentinel's entertainment website

  TapMilwaukee.com

  and new mobile app

  \"Best of Brew City

  \" a guide to what to do in Milwaukee. Other positions: Designer/Producer Jan. 2012-June 2013. News/features design and daily web production/breaking news.

  Interactive Producer

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  Democracy Works

  Slate Magazine

  Improve and maintain site CMS

  develop new features and components for CMS and optimize page performance and usability\nImplement and maintain native advertising templates and promotions inside of the core publishing platform\nAssist in the production of custom campaign creative\nProvide input on how to improve custom products\nTroubleshoot and solve problems when testing and publishing new products

  Software Engineer

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Produce content for daily news service and distribution to regional and national clients. Utilize varied reporting and presentation techniques. Focus on science

  education

  health

  technology and robotics.

  Reporter

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Medill News Service

  Milwaukee

  WI

  Teach courses in digital journalism and media writing to 12-18 undergraduate students in the Diederich College of Communication (JOUR 1100 - Intro to Digital Journalism

  ADPR 2200 - Media Writing).\nDevelop and implement curriculum; work to reinforce digital skills and importance of interactivity.\nWork with students to help them build skills in writing

  multimedia and alternative story forms. Serve as professional adviser to students.

  Adjunct Professor

  Marquette University

  Medill News21 Fellow for the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education\n\nWrote and produced multimedia content for http://northwestern.news21.com\nMaintained and edited blog\nDeveloped social media presence

  Fellow

  Greater Chicago Area

  News21

  Member

  Society of Professional Journalists

  Facilitator

  Girls Who Code

  Member

  Women Who Code

  Executive Board

  Graduate Student Council

  Member

  Online News Association

  Participated in courses in Python

  Javascript/jQuery

  CSS properties

  CSS selectors and advanced HTML.

  Member

  Girl Develop It

  Member

  National Association of Hispanic Journalists

  Hispanic Honor Society

  Sigma Delta Pi

  Jesuit National Honor Society

  Alpha Sigma Nu

  English

  Spanish

  Best Student Magazine (Region 6) - The Marquette Journal

  http://issuu.com/marquettejournal/docs/fall2008/1

  Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence

  3rd Place Digital Innovation — Best of Brew City mobile app

  A new or improved online venture

  such as a new or upgraded website

  an app

  a social-media experiment or other ways to share information in the digital world.\n\nThird: Emily Yount

  Sara Martinez

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  “Best of Brew City”\nJudge’s comments: This is a useful

  easy-to-use app to guide locals or visitors on things to do

  places to go

  what to eat and drink. It even includes ideas for date night or a girls’ night out

  as well as a Milwaukee Bucket List. Download this free app before your next trip to Milwaukee.\n\nhttp://featuresjournalism.org/contests-2/sfj-26th-annual-contest-winners-by-category/

  Society for Features Journalism

  Best Non-Fiction Magazine Article (Region 6) - 'The Man

  the Mission and the Moon'

  http://issuu.com/saramartinez/docs/lovell/1

  Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence

  Best Student Magazine (Region 6) - The Marquette Journal

  http://issuu.com/marquettejournal/docs/summer09/1

  Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence

  2nd Place Online Feature Reporting (Region 5) - 'Handling the Rough Game' for The Atlantic

  Second Place: Handling the rough game: The slow evolution of sports medicine – by Sara J. Martinez

  Northwestern University\nhttp://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1113\nStory: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/handling-the-rough-game-the-slow-evolution-of-sports-medicine/246645/

  Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence

  Best Entertainment Website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over — TapMilwaukee.com

  The EPPY Awards

  presented by Editor & Publisher

  honor the best media-affiliated websites across 31 categories. Judged by a panel of more than 75 figures in the media industry

  entries are evaluated based on content

  design/creativity

  friendliness/interactivity

  innovation and overall impression.\n\nhttp://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/Article/2013-EPPY-Winners-Announced#sthash.zdssN7HF.dpuf

  Editor & Publisher

  Official Honoree for Travel (Handheld Devices) — Best of Brew City mobile app

  The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy

  The Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

  a 1

  000+ member body of leading Web experts

  business figures

  luminaries

  visionaries and creative celebrities.\n\nAs a result of the superior quantity and quality of entrants

  the Webby honors additional outstanding entries alongside our Nominees and Winners as Official Honorees. Being selected as an Official Honoree means an entry has been selected as one of the best on the Web as part of the Webby judging process

  based on the Webby judging criteria.\n\nhttp://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2014/mobile-apps/handheld-devices/travel-handheld-devices

  18th Annual Webby Awards