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California, United States

Regular contributor to branded content that showcases the many ways that technologies such as artificial intelligence, security, cloud, and big data impact the US military.

Envision and write stories on the impact of how advanced technology — such as 5G, the cloud, quantum computing — affect areas as diverse as urban planning, national competitiveness, and the future of work.

Produce branded content and bylines on a variety of high-tech innovations for IBM, a keystone client for the firm.

Conceive and deliver stories and packages on a wide range of topics, including AI, cybersecurity, healthcare, transportation, education, and the future of business. Wired's Brand Lab is a full-service agency model for cross-platform storytelling. Editorial packages are underwritten by local, national and international brands using a collaborative process.

Collaborating with Conde Nast’s Wired publishing group, I led the editorial strategy and content creation for a 25-story, interactive tablet magazine. The Connective 2.0 was a multimedia project for Cisco focused on the future of the Internet of Things. It consisted of a digital magazine and a follow-on website. The tablet magazine was distributed to the.

San Francisco Bay Area

I own a corporate content boutique that provides narrative strategy, explanatory writing, business features, and broader thought leadership initiatives. The editorial lives in a matrix media environment, ranging from websites to social media campaigns and bylined material in leading publications. Clients include Conde Nast, Wired, The New Yorker, TED, The.

Menlo Park, CA

Worked full-time for six-month gig creating bylined articles, speeches, and online posts for Facebook’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Director of AI Research Yann LeCun.

Mill Valley CA

Screened documentaries submitted by filmmakers from around the world, in order to determine which were best to include in the 10-day festival.

San Francisco

Coordinated production, content, and direction of six-episode online video series about the reinvention of the film industry. The series, which was hosted by veteran film producer Ted Hope (now head of Production for Amazon Original Movies), examined how the motion picture industry could be reimagined and restructured, from the way that films are.

San Francisco Bay Area

Teamed up with Public Radio International and WNYC to create a series of enhanced ebooks on icons of American culture. Created a series of enhanced ebooks on Public Radio International's 'American Icons' radio documentary series. Based on the Peabody Award-winning radio show Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, each book combined pictures, video, radio excerpts.

TED Books are short original electronic books produced every two weeks. Like the best TED Talks, they're personal and provocative, and designed to spread great ideas. TED Books are typically under 20,000 words — long enough to unleash a powerful narrative, but short enough to be read in a single sitting. They are available for Kindle, Nook and on the.

Created, launched, and ran a lifestyle magazine for the hydroponics industry — meaning growers of medical marijuana (although we couldn't use those words). We covered everything from from effective growing techniques to the lifestyle and freedom that surrounds being a grower. An interesting publication, but about 18 months too early for the market to.

Managed editorial for web site designed to increase parental involvement in K-12 public education (2.5 million uniques/month). Also, shepherding the editorial end of College Bound, a new site designed to help parents prepare their children for college (release: Sept. 2009).greatschools.org

Created Edutopia magazine (circ: 100K), which covers innovation in K-12 public education. Also supervise web site (160,000+ uniques per month), electronic newsletter and oversee production of 12-14 web documentaries (8- to 12-minutes each) per year.edutopia.org

Relaunched online presence of biz/tech web site.

Work with key editors at international business publication to improve and evolve story packaging, as well as overall look and feel. Also teamed up with Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard on Life 2.0, a book about how the emergence of broadband technologies has enabled the development of hundreds of "hidden-tech" communities throughout the country, and what.

Business 2.0 was a monthly magazine designed to chronicle the rise of the "New Economy". Launched in July 1998, the magazine was sold to Time Inc., the publishing division of Time Warner, in July 2001 for $68 million.Business 2.0 enjoyed extraordinary early growth in readers and advertising, selling more than 2,000 advertising pages in just its second full.

Launched 100-page book for TED conference, an annual gathering of more than 1,000 top creators in the worlds of Technology, Entertainment and Design. Interviewed 14 featured participants, ranging from television producer Norman Lear to filmmaker Albert Maysles, photographer Spencer Tunick and futurist Raymond Kurzweil for articles published in the.

Wrote monthly column on electronic books for Sunday book review section.

Created feature stories for monthly magazine positioned at the confluence of high-tech and culture. Specialized in business pieces. Worked with a stable of a dozen regular freelance contributors. Wrote or edited several cover stories, included '101 Ways to Save Apple', 'Hollywood 2.0' and 'This Lawyer is Bill Gates's Worst Nightmare'.

Assigned and edited news and feature stories for bimonthly technology supplement to Forbes magazine. Worked with a team of a dozen regular contributing feature writers and columnists. Also wrote longer pieces (2,000-plus words) for the magazine.

As a regular contributing writer to these publications, I wrote many early stories on the integration of tech in everything from music and media to social structures and politics.

Supplied steady flow of hard news stories for leading computer industry newspaper. Reported on all facets of the high-tech business, providing coverage of news and trends as well as personality profiles.

Bs, Cum Laude, Journalism; Economics

Post-Graduate Coursework In Economics And International Relations

Graduate, Professional Photography Program, Photojournalism