Co-managing partner of multimedia company with three local weekly newspapers, four community magazines and three websites in Northern Virginia and Piedmont Virginia. Role includes leading sales/marketing efforts, overseeing general operations (accounting/HR/etc.) and serving as publisher of InsideNoVa newspapers, InsideNoVa.com, and Ashburn Magazine. Company's properties are:- InsideNoVa.com, the region's leading news website, with over 2.5 million page views a month.- InsideNoVa/Prince William, weekly newspaper- Culpeper Times, weekly newspaper, and affiliated website.- Rappahannock News, weekly newspaper, and affiliated website.- FauquierNow.com website in Fauquier County.- Ashburn Magazine in Loudoun County- Lifestyle magazines serving Warrenton (Fauquier County), Gainesville/Haymarket (Prince William County) and Stafford County.

Led operations and partnership and business development efforts for start-up company that has a patented platform and technology to build real connections among individuals around shared topics of interest. A Real Place is simply: A place that works like the Internet, but people can actually go there and talk to each other in real life. It is the first in a new generation of real social networking platforms.

- Led all operations, including sales and marketing, for growing multimedia group in Northern Virginia.- Company published as many as eight weekly newspapers reaching nearly 200,000 households; a regional monthly parenting magazine, Washington FAMILY; and associated digital products, including the www.InsideNoVa.com.website and app.- Led sales teams to double-digit revenue growth.- Launched new weekly paper in adjacent county that was named Virginia's best large weekly newspaper in its first year of publication.- Led effort to acquire parenting magazine and incorporate it within company's operations.- Developed and launched first event to recognize "40 Under 40" business and community leaders in Loudoun County.- Won Department of Defense contracts to publish newspapers at two military bases (Fort Belvoir and Marine Corps Base Quantico).- Buillt new brand for newspaper/online group.

- Developed content partnerships for digital media startup.- Drove user engagement for mobile crowd-reporting platform through a variety of efforts, including social media.- Conceived and produced multimedia content. - Consulted on user experience, marketing and product development issues.

- Led all operations for two daily newspapers, the News & Messenger and the Culpeper Star-Exponent, three weekly papers (Stafford County Sun, Belvoir Eagle and Quantico Sentry), related websites (www.insidenova.com) and affiliated products, including a new business magazine, PW Business. - Used market research to build and implement new strategic plan transitioning group from print to digital products.- Built one of parent company's fastest growing digital businesses, with a three-fold increase in audience and a doubling of online advertising revenue.- Launched Facebook page that grew to be the largest among the company's newspapers. - Launched related digital products, inluding e-mail newsletters, mobile apps, and e-edition.- Won two government contracts to publish military base newspapers and websites.- Named chair-elect of local chamber of commerce and represented organization on numerous other non-profit boards.

* Oversaw all operations of daily newspaper and affiliated products with about 40 employees.* Helped paper grow revenue, profit and readership through development of new products and focus on operational efficiencies.* Built convergence relationship with local television station.

* Top newsroom executive on Publishing Division staff, with emphasis on such issues as budgeting, legal questions, and convergence, as well as strategic decisions that involved news content.* Advocated for content improvements at 25 daily newspapers, plus weeklies, through content reviews, recruiting, training, redesigns and other initiatives. * Oversaw Washington News Bureau and coverage of national politics and the federal government.* Developed, launched, marketed, and sold weekly theme pages and news wire to newspapers outside the company.* Created company's first journalism awards program.

* Developed and served as product manager for online content-sharing network (Newsbank) used by Media General newspapers. Network has now been used to share more than 600,000 articles, photos and graphics.* Built online story budgeting tool that received recognition from NAA's News Tech magazine.

* Associate Sports Editor (1995-99): Second-in-command of department of 26 reporters and editors for 200,000-circulation daily newspaper.* Assistant Business Editor (1993-95): Edited daily business stories; developed concept for and oversaw production of annual Top 50 employers section.* Business reporter (1992-93): Covered economics beat.

Covered a variety of beats, including local government, transportation, state politics and the General Assembly, for 100,000-circulation six-day-a-week newspaper