RED2 COMMUNICATIONS
Where legacies are created and established. What's your legacy?
About Me
Everybody has a story to tell. I first heard that phrase following a 1988 at San Francisco State. I heard it again four years later upon as first-generation college graduate.
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While sharpening my journalism skills during my15-year Southern California news publication tenure, that "voice" kept calling me.
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"Everybody has a story to tell, Ray and you need to tell it." said that "voice."
With every published story bearing my name, I kept hearing that voice.
I asked my wife, Lisa, what course of action should I take? She told me to take my father's advice.
While reflecting on my work (as a radio DJ, print journalist) and listened to my “dream goals” my dad asked me, “Why are you wasting talents? Start your own publication.” I felt it was time to keep my word to my dad and start my own publication.
The platform goal of RED2 Communications is: publishing success stories of reguar people acoplishing their "impossible" dreams and establishing legacies.
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Work Experience
State of California
Department of Motor Vehicles
2009-Now
Provide customer service information on driver's license, identification card, vehicle registration, vehicle code laws; make appointments for in-state, non-resident (driver's license, identification card, vehicle registration) customers. Reconised by Executive Director Jean Shiomoto for earning over 300 Customer Service Survey Complements.
Riverside Press Enterprise
1992-2007
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News Assistant, Agate Editor
Prep Sports Writer
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Coordinated & prepared daily budgets meetings, wrote engagement, wedding & anniversary announcements.
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Covered California prep sports, including league & regional championship games.
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Covered Roller Hockey International, a professional roller hockey league from 1994-1999, featuring the Anaheim Bullfrogs and the Los Angeles Blades; and the 1997-98 International Ice Hockey Federation Inline Championships.
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Responsible for arranging agate results from international, professional, collegiate and prep events. Gathered prep results that weren’t covered by a staff writer.
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Maintained close personal contact with assistant managing editors.
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Wrote numerous personal and social features.
Sports Spectrum
Grand Rapids, MI.
1994-1999
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Freelance Writer
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Wrote features on Christian athletes including ex-Oakland Raider QB Vince Evans, first person piece on marathon running and a piece on the Women's National Basketball Association and the American Basketball League.
Bakersfield Californian
Bakersfield, CA
Summer 1992
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Internship Writer
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Covered the Dodgers’ Class A Minor League squad. Writing feature pieces.
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Education
1992 / JUN
San Francisco State University
First college graduate in Diggs family. Enrolled as Broadcasting major before switching to Journalism. Won "Byline King" Award while writing for school's publication, The Golden Gater. Served later as Sports Editor.
1986 / JUN
City College of San Francisco
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Following my dad's footsteps as a DJ, Radio, Sports & PSA announcer on KCSF-FM; earning an Associate's in Broadcasting.
