Jayson Peters is a digital, social and print media professional, and founder of the blog Nerdvana.
Recent creations by Jayson Peters …
- Workers Improve Safety With Equipment Modifications
- Officials Visit Pueblo Plant, Tour Static Detonation Chamber Site
- At GeekDad: Space cat Felicette statue unveiled at French university
- VIDEO: Future Engineers Explore Technology Destroying U.S. Chemical Arsenal
- Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission Chair Addresses World Conference
- Preparations Underway for Pueblo Static Detonation Chambers
- Pueblo Plant Marks Successful Year of Operations
- Sprung Structures Rise at Static Detonation Chamber Sites
- 2019: Looking back on the year, the decade, and beyond
- Pueblo Plant Readies 3rd Module to Process Hydrolysate
- Plant, Depot Officials Keep Local Governments Briefed on Stockpile
- Destruction Campaign Progresses at Pueblo Plant
- Pueblo Plant Begins Static Detonation Chamber Assembly
- Pueblo Plant Pursues Final Operating Permit for Main Process
- Chemical Demilitarization in the Classroom
- Movie theater’s practices are hastening its demise
- Pueblo Plant Destroys More Than 1,000 U.S. Tons of Chemical Warfare Agent
- Principal Deputy Named to Support Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Employees Make Strides in Pressurized Protective Suits
- Carbon Filter Replacements Keep Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant’s Emissions Safe
- PCAPP Monthly Recaps
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Increases Munitions Processing Rate
- Grow With Google brings digital skill development to Pueblo; tech giant dangles $1M in grants to Colorado nonprofits
- Memorial to France’s Forgotten Space Cat Finds Home, New Design
- First Static Detonation Chamber Components Arrive at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Reaches Halfway Point in First of Three Agent-Destruction Campaigns
- Successful Demonstrations Lead to End of Pilot Testing at Pueblo Plant
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Transitions From Pilot Testing Into Full Operations
- Surging sand dunes!
- Acting Site Project Manager at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Named to Permanent Post
- Pueblo Chemical Depot Welcomes New U.S. Army Commander
- Pueblo Plant Resumes Chemical Agent Destruction
- Static Detonation Chamber Construction Begins at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Pueblo Plant Employee Groups Drive Innovation
- How to get started with Dungeons & Dragons
- Alternate Site Used for Annual Emergency Response Exercise in Pueblo
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Regains a Containment Area After Thorough Cleanup
- Efficiencies in Munitions Processing Demonstrated at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Heroic robots!
- Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
- Nintendo trims online game selection
- VIDEO: A Walk on Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant’s Wild Side
- The Gutenberg and the Bad
- Pueblo Plant Hosts International Chemical Weapons Council
- New Bechtel Pueblo Team Manager Keeps Momentum
- PHOTOS: Sheepdip 2019
- VIDEO: Colorado Residents Learn About Static Detonation Chamber
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Achieves Chemical Agent Destruction Milestone
- Alert Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Workers Keep Downtime to a Minimum
- St. Baldrick’s
- A professional update
- Interim Site Project Manager Selected for Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
Who I am …
- Creator and curator of the award-winning
- “Journotech” guy specializing in WordPress and other CMS administration and customization
- Journalist and instructor with extensive experience in production management, content creation and editing and design for digital, print and social media.
- Father, husband, gamer, blogger, educator, manager
Where you can find me now …
IEM
- Public outreach specialist, February 2019-
- Content creator, Pueblo Chemical Stockpile Outreach Office
- Creator and blogger, 2007-
- Owner, publisher, editor in chief, 2016-
- Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017 accredited media
Pueblo News & Events
- Under construction …
Pueblo Community College
- Adjunct faculty: web design instructor, 2013-
- October 2015 part-time faculty of the month
- Curriculum development: content management systems, 2017
Southern Colorado Press Club
- Board member, 2015-17
- Vice president, 2019-20
- Past-president/board member, 2018-19
- President, 2016-18
- Webmaster, 2015-
What I’ve created …
Where I’ve been before …
Colorado Publishing House:
- Production manager, August 2018-February 2019
- Colorado Springs Business Journal
- Colorado Springs Independent
- Colorado Springs Military Newspaper Group
- Peterson Space Observer
- Schriever Sentinel
- Fort Carson Mountaineer
- Pikes Peak Bulletin
- Southeast Express newspaper launch
Duties:
- Print section layout
- Digital ad design/management
- Website and digital subscription management
- Communicating with printers on quoting, scheduling and quality control
The Pueblo Chieftain
- Digital editor/media director, 2011-18
- 2018 SPJ Colorado Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism Award, First Place, General Website Excellence, Chieftain.com
- 2017 Better Newspaper Contest recipient, Best Website-Daily
- 2017 second-place videos in multimedia and breaking news video categories
- 2015 Southern Colorado Press Club Media Excellence award for electronic media
- 2015 Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant recipient
- Editor of Pueblo Events, 2014-18
- Curation, reverse publishing, pagination, supervising FTE and interns
- Webmaster, Best of Pueblo, Pueblo Pets, 2012-18, Pueblo Events, 2014-18
- Custom-designed, SSL-secured form submissions sub-site with media kit documents behind email capture (more info)
- Custom discount card order form
GeekDad
- Occasional contributor for the popular GeekDad website, 2010-11, 2017
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Adjunct faculty instructor of Online Media at Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus, 2010-11
East Valley Tribune
- Web editor, assistant news editor, copy editor, page designer, editorial assistant and proud obituary clerk at the Pulitzer Prize-winning suburban Phoenix, Ariz., newspaper, 1998-2011
Presentations
- Society of Professional Journalists Region 9 conference 2018, Denver: Incorporating HTML into reporting
- Southern Colorado Press Club, various dates: paid content, online calendars
Other past roles:
- Freelance features writer for State Press Magazine
- Crime and higher education reporter at ASU State Press
- Data conversion for United States Postal Service
Education
Arizona State University
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Bachelor of Arts degree, Journalism
Maricopa County Community College District (Arizona)
Phoenix College
- Associate of Arts degree, Classical Studies