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Welcome to my server.
Not much to see here
other than a few writing samples and print projects.
Connect with me on
LinkedIn.
I'm a communications
professional with more than 25
years of experience in news, publishing,
peacekeeping, and political work. I've occupied
several senior-level positions in the private sector
and also while working for the United Nations in various conflict zones. Prior to my career in
communications, I taught writing at the university
level while doing doctoral work.
Ahead of joining the
UN, where I worked for 10 years, I was an editor for
16 years, starting at
eMedia in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following eMedia,
I worked for Computer
magazine in the Los Alamitos, California editorial
offices. I've worked for many other publishers, both
in-house and on a contract basis, and I've occupied several
senior-level positions in the media, including managing editor at ECT News in Los Angeles
and managing editor
at NewsFactor Network, also in Los Angeles.
I received a BA in
Philosophy from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 1990 and an MA in English from California State
University, Northridge, in
1992. My Master's thesis, titled "The Position
Beyond Reproach," considered academic rhetoric
through the lens of postmodern epistemologies. I did
PhD work in English at Northeastern University
(Massachusetts), where I was awarded a
fellowship and taught undergraduate writing before leaving academia (ABD) to pursue a career in
publishing.
My dissertation
remains incomplete. It was titled "History's Modernisms / Modernism's
Histories: Dystopian Fiction from 1900 to 1950."
The ideas from this project might one day inform a
different study, something like a multidisciplinary
approach to the cultural impact of emerging
technologies on developing nations, which remains an
ongoing interest.
I've bylined several
hundred articles, columns and news pieces about the
impact of emerging technologies; see, for example, "Engineering
the Web's Third Decade," "Mainstreaming
Augmented Reality," or "Weighing
Watson's Impact." I've posted a few other
similar articles I've written
here. My byline has
appeared in peer-reviewed and commercial
publications, including Computer, CACM,
eMedia, NewsFactor,
Sci-Tech Today,
E-Commerce Times,
Linux Insider, and in several other
publications.
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