Leading the great brands MSSP Alert and ChannelE2E as they enter a new stage.--Oversee all content for MSSP Alert and ChannelE2E news and information web sites covering the MSP (managed service provider) and MSSP (managed security service provider) channel.--Lead team staff and freelance editors and writers.--Lead content strategy for webinars. Determine content, conduct speaker recruitment, and act as host for live webcasts.--Oversee four annual research projects. Deliverables include ranked lists of businesses in the market, downloadable research reports for each project, and a webcast for each project.--Conference chair for annual 3-day in-person MSSP Alert Live event. Program the content and recruit the speakers for conference that gathers MSSPs and MSPs, vendors, and other industry participants. Grew attendee levels and revenue in second year of this event.--Consult on numerous projects related to the integration of these channel businesses (which CRA acquired from the brand founders) into CyberRisk Alliance, a PE-backed company created to acquire cybersecurity-related event/information/community/media businesses, including the channel brands that I currently lead. Projects have included site migration, site redesign, and a taxonomy update.--Fulfill sales deliverables including sponsored podcast interviews, from the planning meeting with the client to the finished product.--Provide sales support as the top leader of these brands. --Serve as the channel subject matter expert for CyberRisk Alliance.--Analyze website traffic to inform content choices and improve site traffic performance.--Leverage my network of channel connections for speaker recruitment, providing help to writers in the story assignments I make, and reporting and writing my own stories.--Develop use cases for generative AI in editorial content settings, including AI prompt design and refinement plus analysis of AI-generated content for accuracy, relevance, and quality.

--Senior Editor for InformationWeek covering how businesses and next-generation CIOs are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), data and analytics for digital transformation to compete in a new era. I tell these stories with articles, slideshows, infographics, podcasts, and in live radio shows. --Advisor for the analytics track of Interop ITX, helping to shape content programming for the this annual conference of IT leaders and practitioners.

Managed brand -- a content destination covering data and analytics. This brand included a website, webinars, and live podcast. Recruited presenters for business and technology webinars, produced and hosted podcast with an interview format, managed and updated blog community website, including editing posts from regular contributors, writing posts, and covering industry events.

Top editor for MSPmentor, a part of the Penton Technology Group.--Serve as Market Expert and Analyst for the Managed Services Market--Direct, lead, conduct, author, and present results of all MSPmentor market research, including the MSP 501 list--Moderate live webinars, host podcasts, and conduct recorded video interviews with industry executives and experts--Manage staff and freelance contributors--Set and execute overall editorial strategy--Recruit and manage talent--Create and execute strategy to deliver on traffic metric goals--Leverage analytics platforms such as Adobe Analytics to develop traffic-driving strategy

Channel Insider is the online channel publication of Ziff Davis Enterprise. Sister publications include eWEEK, Baseline, and CIO Insight. Earned promotion to Editor-in-Chief by creating and executing highly successful strategies to grow traffic to site, leveraging deep insights in tools such as Omniture Site Catalyst and Google Analytics.--Created and executed editorial strategy for brand--Recruited and managed freelance staff to meet tight financial budgets and exceed top management's traffic goals--Represented brand as top editor--Participated in webinars for the Channel Insider brand

Matriarch of Channel Insider, the channel's news alternative.

Editor, reporter, blogger and columnist for Web site and daily e-mail newsletter with 220,000 circulation covering the electronics/semiconductor industry.

Associate news editor, columnist, opinions editor and reporter. InfoWorld is a daily news Web site, e-mail newsletter publisher, and was a weekly tabloid trade magazine for IT managers which had 360,000 controlled national circulation at the time I worked there. --Launched and managed news supplements, from concept to staff development to freelance assignments to editing.--Led and managed a group of award-winning columnists including Bob Metcalfe, Brian Livingston, and Nicholas Petreley.--Wrote the nationally award-winning weekly “Net Prophet” column and the popular Robert X. Cringely “Notes from the Field” technology gossip column. During year-long tenure as author of Robert X. Cringely column, increased circulation of e-mail newsletter by 18.5 percent.--Led and managed both cub and seasoned reporters.--Reported and wrote stories covering a range of business and technology topics.

--Reported and wrote news and feature stories covering the industries of technology, telecommunications, retail, and venture capital.--Spearheaded the Philadelphia Business Journal’s version of the “Fortune 500,” an annual research project ranking Philadelphia’'s public companies published in special supplement for the PBJ. Managed creation of this special section for three years, analyzing economic trends for the region. Assigned stories, directed creation of explanatory graphics. Collected, compiled and analyzed data for the project using a FoxPro-based database.

2002 to 2003