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New York City Metropolitan Area

Set editorial strategy and manage operations for QuinStreet’s CarInsurance.com, Insurance.com and Insure.com websites.- Work closely with user-experience, user-engagement and audience-development teams.- Recruit and manage expert commentators from academia, consulting and industry.

Greater New York City Area

Launch editor for WSJ Pro Artificial Intelligence, an editorial section of the Journal focused on the business application of AI.- Wrote news and trend articles that appeared on the WSJ home page, special-feature front pages and across the WSJ site.- Assigned and edited stories, maintained the WSJ Pro AI site and wrote the daily WSJ Pro AI newsletter.- Moderated panels and discussions at WSJ Pro AI and WSJ CIO Network events.

Greater New York City Area

Led a number of brands for this business-to-business media company, including Air Cargo World, Auto Finance News, and Bank Innovation. - Teamed with the editors and Royal Media’s events group to program a number of conferences.- Worked closely with the sales, marketing, and social media teams.

New York, N.Y.

Oversaw several titles for this media company, including Accounting Today, Digital Insurance, Employee Benefit News, Financial Planning, Health Data Management, Information Management, Securities Industry News, and Traders. - Led editorial efforts that resulted in dozens of editorial awards from Connectiv, the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and Folio.- Created several research-based indexes, one of which resulted in a $100,000 annual sponsorship.- Launched brand extensions, including Employee Benefit News’ Dig|HR for human resource executives and Health Data Management’s Reinvent Radiology for imaging professionals.- Developed web seminar and video series.- Worked with SourceMedia’s events team on conference development.

Melville, N.Y.

Conceived and launched the first social network for chief information officers. Responsibilities included site strategy and development, editorial planning and budgeting, video, and web seminar production. Traffic and membership increased, on average, 20% month-over-month from launch.- Founded, along with former CMP and Ziff Davis executives, the CIOZone's parent company, Professional Social Networks.- Recruited CIOs and other management experts to blog and moderate online groups and forums.- Forged content-sharing partnerships with McKinsey & Co., Robert Half Technology, Columbia University and others.

New York, N.Y.

I ran two of the most respected IT business publications -- Baseline and CIO Insight. I set the editorial direction, oversaw the staff, handled the budget, work with sales and marketing, hosted industry events, and moderated panel discussions. I also wrote a number of news analysis and feature stories for the brands. - Won a national Gold award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) in the Feature Article category.- Won a national Gold award from the ASBPE in the Individual Company Profile category.

New York, N.Y.

Led an award-winning editorial team, oversaw news and feature efforts, moderated panel discussions and hosted events at various industry conferences. In addition, I wrote a regular opinion column and many of the brand's cover stories.- Won the 2005 Grand Neal award.- Won a national Gold award from ASBPE in the Bylined Editorial category - Won a national Bronze award from ASBPE in the Case Study category - Named an ASBPE regional finalist in the Feature Story category - Named a Jesse H. Neal award finalist in the Best Single Article category - Won top regional and national ASBPE awards in the Case Study category

Garden City, N.Y.

I developed the editorial strategy, oversaw day-to-day online operations and managed a 60+ staff that included a number of Pulitzer Prize winners. - Created the Interactive 500, the first-ever ranking of e-commerce companies by the amount of revenue they generated from their online business operations.- Led editorial efforts that resulted in the publication being named best special interest/trade brand by the Western Publications Association.

New York, N.Y.

I managed all editorial operations for this 11-brand media company. I oversaw new product development and created joint-marketing programs with the organization’s conference and book divisions.

Manhasset, Ny

I oversaw all editorial operations for this top IT business brand. I set strategy, directed coverage, and supervised a staff of 50+ professionals. I also won CMP’s News Story of the Year for a piece on unfair software pricing.