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Greater New York City Area

• Writing coach and editor: college essays, poetry, nonfiction (memoir, narrative nonfiction).• Write features on remote work, parental leave, and child support in America for the NYT.• Ghostwrite on strategy, tech, innovation, and leadership for L3Harris.• Research and edit/ghostwrite photo-essay book on global risk and disaster planning. • Consult and write about design, copy, and UX for healthcare and design consultants.• Edit literary and trade magazines and corporate healthcare websites.• Ghostwrite for Ideo and other design and tech consultants across industries.• Write book reviews and interview authors for the New York Times and Times Literary Supplement.• Interpret data and develop industry insights for business clients.• Ghostwrite about artificial intelligence, voting machines, and disaster prototyping.• Train editors at numerous non-profit magazines, companies, and B2B publications.

Brooklyn, Ny

• Defined editorial strategy and work with consultants to ghost-write articles and Q&As. • Advised Designit on idea generation and on developing a confident editorial voice. • Launched Medium content site and a monthly editorial schedule.• Defined future initiatives content and marketing outreach internally and externally.• Wrote articles that deepened knowledge of design, AI, data, and organizational change.• Wrote insights-driven case studies about aviation, voting, and healthcare innovation. • Interviewed Alan Cooper, father of Visual Basic, on the future of design and tech.• Wrote prototyping article for voice-based AI assistants for test-case Standup meetings. • Gathered and published insights on Gen Z’s tech savvy and DIY-discovery mindset.• Wrote collaborative data analytics and design article to show how to derive insights.• Researched and wrote about personality development of AI bots.• Wrote about disability rights, happiness design of material life, futurism, and sound design.• Interviewed designer at Designit-Buildit maker/venture lab on AI workplace productivity tool.

New York, Ny

• Launched translations journal to draw attention to new writing.• Solicited work and improved translations for Women Writing Brazil (8/16) and China (4/17). • Launched distribution, subscriptions, printing, ebooks, and website.• Managed budget and global invoicing, and wrote grants to expand funding. • Created workflow and outreach, hired and managed interns, and managed all logistics. • Shaped and sold book proposal for Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum, about Amazonian peoples.

New York, Ny

• Deepened and expanded Fast Company’s and Inc.’s innovation and leadership coverage.• Edited daily blogs on media, tech, and design for Fast Company by dozens of writers. • Wrote blogs on culture and tech for Fast Company and expanded thought leadership section. • Wrote about media, Hollywood, innovation, AI, design, and virtual reality for Fast Company.• Edited blogs on startup culture for Inc., soliciting 30 new CEOs, VPs, and VCs as writers. • Interviewed Jacki Morie, virtual world designer, on next-gen telehealth initiatives, for Forbes.• Drew out the future of social-graph dating via OkCupid and Tinder, for Forbes.• Wrote white papers, sales promos, and case studies for Peppercomm, Latitude, and Digiday.• Developed case study on how social listening transformed Philips Lighting’s digital outreach. • Wrote book proposal for CEO Jules Pieri for e-commerce startup The Grommet.• Reconceived and rewrote Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants for e-book startup. • Consulted and wrote RFPs and other design materials for Garrison Architects.

Greater New York City Area

• Developed marketing and branding strategy for Danish innovation firm.• Led thought leadership initiative on consumer-driven, user-centric innovation.• Redirected the firm's European focus into a global, consumer-driven perspective.• Hired Obama campaign designer Scott Thomas to launch new website from scratch.• Created editorial-style marketing to educate clients on identifiable industry trends. • Developed website content, launched newsletters, and initiated social media outreach.• Developed tagline, positioning, and extensive marketing brochure for global launch.• Gained client trust by interviewing LEGO, Coloplst, and Sanoma execs for case studies. • Created and implemented new style of research-driven, actionable white papers.• Developed timely intel on Facebook, TV, and innovation.• Improved reporting and methodologies while tackling stories. • Did deep research and wrote about urban transit, megacities, and aviation design. • Refined pitches, project summaries, and client papers for LEGO and Samsung.• Expanded Intel research with survey; crunched numbers, developed new FB insights.• Secured ReD its first publicity with my Facebook study, in national magazines.• Expanded publicity outreach by writing and placing expert blogs in Fast Company.• Researched and wrote book proposal on new kinds of reasoning in business.

New York, Ny

• Highlighted second-home communities across America for the New York Times.• Expanded news and tech blogs for Fast Co. and solicited savvy tech contributors. • Profiled Alex Alvarez's Gnomon as foremost gaming/CG feeder school, for Fast Co.• Profiled Motion Theory, star hybrid digital/special effects company, for Fast Co.• Highlighted deep technological innovation by Waze, GPS startup, for Slate's The Big Money.• Identified why Zynga was so swiftly successful and prolific, for Hemispheres. • Created 1500-restaurant database, editing 70+ writers weekly, for New York.• Created daily content, from surveys to interviews, for American Movie Classics.

New York, Ny

• Edited five- to seven 700-page Fodor's Gold Guides annually. • Added coding and wrote intros, essays, and back copy for all books.• Created almanac-style Destination at a Glance for all titles.• Adding socio-economic and historical depth to all books.• Streamlined production by moving full production for half the book up four months. • Researched and proposed new titles and series. • Acquired/managed 10-20 writers per book.• Managed budgets and developed P&Ls.

• Led a production team to develop real-time news stories on earth events. • Worked with scientists on stories for earth and planetary science hall kiosks.• Visited Fairbanks USGS to research new stories about active volcanoes.• Created a website on the history of epidemics and disease.

• Wrote copy for Dell.com to help consumers understand computers and specs. • Proposed visual-centric ways to explain computers, transforming Dell’s approach. • Helped developers create navigation and menu options for Dell's first e-commerce site.• Won advertising award for my work on Dell.com, the first website to reach $1M in revenue.• Wrote brochures, copy, and catalogs for Compaq, UPS, and Cover Girl.

San Mateo, Ca

• Developed systematic new ways to evaluate emerging technologies in famous test center. • Wrote extensive analyses of emerging technologies to educate decision-makers on tech.• Wrote about email interoperability, videoconferencing, speech recognition, and multimedia.• Developed first streamlined two-person production team to work on rolling schedule.

Ba, English

Ma, Literature And Poetry