Objective
An interesting, highly responsible, highly interactive position--one in which I will function as a leader and a contributing member of a smart, mutually supportive team that produces high-caliber, high-profile work
Web Experience
• Supervise production of online content on tight deadlines
• Analyze Website traffic with Hitbox/HBX and Google Analytics
• Ensure articles' conformity with organization's established search engine optimization tactics
• Post articles using DotNetNuke-based content management system; process images with Adobe Photoshop; create Web videos using Adobe Premiere
• Define strategy for website and analyze return on elements such as social networking features
• Coordinated redesign to incorporate a new hospital acquisition
• Produced scripts for and appeared as expert spokesperson in online video features
• Wrote and edited online stories and blog entries that appeared on PCWorld.com (US and international editions), WashingtonPost.com, Computerworld.com, InfoWorld.com, MSN.com, Macworld.com, PCadvisor.com (UK), Yahoo.com, AOL.com, and About.com
• Edited online feature "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time," most-viewed article ever posted to PC World Website, with 6.5 million page views as of March 2009
• Wrote "The Most Notable Notebooks of 2007," a slide show that earned 1.6 million page views; and "The 100 Best Products of 2006," 1.2 million page views
• Hosted PC World's first live web chat, July 2006
• Coordinated weekly Internet radio show, 1997
• Created and wrote MacHome Daily News, an early online blog, 1996
Other Experience and Achievements
• Manage content for 30 digital signage sites, including coordinating the efforts of outside content creation contractors
• Top-level edited print and online features, departments, and news section
• Wrote and edited stories that appear in as many as 52 PC World editions worldwide
• Chaired committee responsible for major revamp of PC World's star-rating system, 2005
• Appointed executive editor of Digital World consumer electronics publication, June 2004
• Named editor of Next Gear, a consumer electronics section of PC World, September 2003
• Served as "uber-editor" of PC World's Hardware Buying Guide, which required managing a cross-departmental team of 18 editors, September 2002
• Recruited as member of team formed to start up new publication in Boston, Massachusetts, 1990
Marketing
• Appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including NBC Dateline, CNN, CNNfn, KRON, San Francisco, KGO San Francisco, and ABC Radio
• Presented "Technology and the Travel Writer" to Society of American Travel Writers, Orlando, Florida, November 2003
• Moderated two Macworld Expo conferences
Technical Skills
• Experienced in content management systems; can edit HTML code
• Proficient with blogging platforms, including Blogger and WordPress
• High level of expertise with:
• Image- and video-editing: Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro
• Office applications: Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Access
• Desktop publishing: Adobe InDesign and Quark QuarkXPress
• Expert knowledge of many technology products, including computer systems, digital cameras
and camcorders, home networking equipment, and HDTVs
• Windows and Mac proficient; some experience with Linux distributions
Recognition
• Won Bronze Award, American Society of Business Press Editors, 2009, for Best How-To Article: "Hack Your Hardware" (editing)
• Won Best Web Article/Consumer, Western Publishing Association, 2007, for The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time (editing)
• Won Gold Award, American Society of Business Press Editors, 2007, for Best Product Section or Department (editing)
• Won Gold Award, American Society of Business Press Editors, 2006 (writing)
• Won Silver Award, American Society of Business Press Editors, 2003 (editing)
• Won PC World’s World Class Work Award (similar to an employee of the month award), April 2004 and February 2006
Education
Indiana University, College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomington, Indiana
Bachelor of Arts degree, double major: Journalism and English
Positions
El Camino Hospital
Mountain View, California
Web Content Manager, March 2009 to present
PC World
San Francisco, California
Executive Editor, December 2006 to March 2009 | Senior Writer, March 2005 to December 2006 | Senior Editor, September 1999 to March 2005 | Senior Associate Editor, May 1999 to September 1999
MacHome Journal
San Francisco, California
Editor in Chief, May 1998 to May 1999 | Editor, August 1997 to May 1998 | News Editor, June 1996 to August 1997
California Builder and Engineer
Palo Alto, California
Editor, June 1995 to June 1996 | Associate Editor, June 1993 to June 1995
Construction Market Data
Indianapolis, Indiana and Boston, Massachusetts
Architectural Manager, April 1990 to March 1993 | Architectural Reporter, June 1989 to April 1990 | Civil Engineering Reporter, May 1988 to June 1989