About Patrick Beeson

Hi. I'm Patrick Beeson.

And I'm a 20-something project manager for E.W. Scripps Interactive Newspaper Group in Knoxville, TN. I'm also an avid cyclist, Web designer, journalist and blogger.

I find it difficult to write about myself, so instead I'll write as if I were interviewing, well, myself:

How long have you been in Knoxville? What part of town do you live in?

My fiance, Lindsay Durango, and I moved to Knoxville in late February of 2007. We currently reside in the Cedar Bluff area.

Though I've never lived in Knoxville before now, I did grow up in Bristol, which is about a two-hour drive to the north east corner of the state.

Y'all might have heard about the Bristol Motor Speedway...

Where do you work?

I am a project manager at E. W. Scripps Interactive Newspaper Group. For reference, Scripps owns the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Blount Today, Halls Shopper-News and Metro Pulse.

And that's just in Knoxville!

In total, Scripps owns and operates 18 various newspapers across the country.

You can learn more about my work experience and skill set by downloading my resume (PDF).

What will you be blogging about on your Web site?

I write about my experiences in Knoxville as a 20-something professional. But I also meander to topics of personal interest including: cycling, media and interesting consumables.

Please note that none of what I write about on this Web site reflects the views of my employer(s), present or past. The thoughts expressed are mine, and mine alone.

I also write an occasional blog entry on the Knoxville-centric blog Knoxify, and the wonderfully geeky Download Squad.

Tell me more about your background

Like many kids that grew up in a small town, I fled after graduating high school.

Only I went a bit further than most, landing in Durango, CO at Fort Lewis College.

I transferred back east after my freshman year because the school was a little too small. The last three years of college were spent at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. where I graduated with a major in public relations.

I did a few public relations internships in non-profit and agency settings before deciding to head back to school to focus on writing and the media.

And then I was delivered to Tuscaloosa, AL and the University of Alabama. Roll Tide!

I chose to ditch the normal course of study for journalism grad students, and purse a self-rolled path of online media. My Master's project even dealt with blogging!

Two years after arriving in the Deep South, I left with degree in hand to Roanoke, VA and The Roanoke Times/roanoke.com. I began as an intern and left as Web Standards Developer, with experience in one of the most innovative and award-winning newsrooms in the country for online media.

What other interests do you have?

I am a cycling fanatic -- I have been since my first mountain bike experience when I was 15. I currently have three bikes, not including Lindsay's bike, which share space with my camping equipment and a snowboard. Oh, and two cats: Simian and Tita.

I'm also very skilled in designing and developing Web sites. My weapons of choice are: semantic HTML, CSS, DOM scripting and Django, all working in harmony with Web standards.

And I'm a beer, coffee and denim snob.

How can you be reached?

I can be contacted in a variety of ways:

Note: The views expressed on this Web site do not reflect those of my employer(s), past or present.

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Currently reading

Learning Website development with Django book cover

"Learning Website Development with Django" by Ayman Hourieh

A beginner's tutorial to building web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework.

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patrickbeeson: Visited grandparents and Lindsay's brother yesterday. Had some great beer at Big Boss Brewing in Raleigh, NC. #

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