Bear's Den specializes in all aspects of content creation and management, from short-term reporting and writing assignments to on-going consulting engagements.

Initially hired as a content management consultant, I became so convinced of FeeX's mission and potential value to the investing public that I jumped at the chance of coming on fulltime as director of these efforts. And that mission resonates. In fact I was thrilled to see my efforts at getting FeeX into the second annual Benzinga FinTech Awards pay off with FeeX winning Most Disruptive Startup. A total of 250 eligible companies from five countries participated in the awards. Even so, I'm most proud of my role in a cross-team collaborative data analysis project. A small team worked to parse anonymized FeeX data and produce reports that we thought would be of interest to the media --- and it was. Multiple outlets found this data and some of our conclusions interesting enough to produce stories, including CNBC and Forbes. Americans pay $600 billion in fees on their investment assets annually, much of it unnecessary. That largess could allow millions of Americans to retire richer if only it were placed in lower-cost but equally or better performing index funds and ETFs.

Ran editorial for this hot automated investment service startup. My efforts spanned the creative - planning of pieces, writing, interviewing, editing and producing - to the day-to-day operations of managing our blog and other forms of content.

As Technology Reporter for Investment News ( InvestmentNews.com ) I'm building a beat that will serve to meet the tech information needs of financial advisers throughout the nation. The position focuses on covering the key software and online services, as well as the latest in computer and mobile hardware technology available for financial advisers.

Wrestled daily with reviewing every online app, widget, gadget and service possible from startups in beta like LinkedIn and Skype (at the time) to the big boys including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! (at the time).

Editor in charge of Consumer Networking, GPS products, Phones & PDAs (mobile & VoIP) at PC Magazine.

Managed an editoreal and product testing team that covered and reviewed Internet hardware and software. Nothing web-related was off limits, everything from wireless routers to switches, and high-end web acceleration products fell under our beat.

Worked for the Florida Bureau of Epidemiology under a grant from the CDC for improving inter-departmental communications and public outreach.

Wrote about diving locations, sites and news as well as the Emanuel Point Shipwreck excavation.

Wrote a series of stories on the excavation of the Emanuel Point 1 shipwreck, part of the de Luna expedition that sank during a colonization attempt in the 16th century.

http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992§ion=102http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/epsAI9798.pdf