Writing Resume
Various Clients - Freelance Writer
1/2003 to present
- AOL TV Squad - Editor-in-chief / Writer: Contribute 1-3 blog posts per day to this client, writing articles and reviews about various television shows. Also contribute celebrity interviews to the site, which previously hadn’t been done to a large extent. Copy-edit nd schedule posts written by other bloggers. Finally, report from events such as the NY Television Festival and the TCA press tour.
- The New York Times - Contributed humor essays and articles about local restaurants for the newspaper’s New Jersey section. Also wrote news articles, celebrity profiles, and travel articles for Escapes section.
- North Jersey Media Group - Contributed multiple articles for this magazine group, which profiles businesses and cultural events throughout the more affluent communities of Northern and Central New Jersey. Most heavily contributed to M: The Best of Morris, providing profiles and Q&As of county celebrities and notables, dining profiles, and overview articles of Morris-based organizations.
- New Jersey Monthly - From 2006 to 2008, contributed numerous articles to magazine, and participated in theme issues like the Music Issue and Cheap Eats. Articles included in-depth profiles of Andy Breckman of Monk and musician Robert Randolph.
- Erickson Tribune - Report on events and interview notable residents of retirement community in Northern New Jersey for the local pages of the company’s nationally-distributed newspaper. Contribute approximately five articles per month; tasks include reporting, photography, and sourcing art.
- Also contributed essays, profiles, and interviews to The Washington Post, Mediabistro.com, Jane, Radar, Cinematical, Premiere.com, Portfolio.com, Inc. Technology, Salon.com, and The Huffington Post.
- Media appearances: BBC World Service Radio, “The Dolans” nationally-syndicated radio show, Attack of the Show on G4, MSNBC, WTAM-AM in Cleveland, BlogTalkRadio, and CAPA Presse TV in France.
IBM Corporation - IT Specialist
11/1997 to 4/2006
General system administration tasks performed (maintain user IDs and groups, permissions, built new servers) for 200 servers serving 2000 people at research site in Bridgewater, NJ.
Managed capacity between user home servers and mail servers; migrated users to larger servers using tools such as Secure Copy.
Managed Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition Console, virus definition distributions, and software updates. Kept up-to-date on latest virus threats.
Worked on team that built out IBM’s first collocation site, in Newark, NJ. Helped set up infrastructure servers (NT and AIX), system racks, and cabling
Performed annual security review applying both corporations’ security standards to ensure data integrity.
Ciber, Inc - Consultant
6/1997 to 11/1997
Systems administrator at Lucent
General system administration tasks performed (maintain user IDs and groups, permissions, built new servers) on 20 servers serving 1000 people at a corporate center site for a large telecommunications company in Morristown, NJ.
Designed and implemented a facility-wide IP addressing system using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).
Professional Certifications
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet (MCP+I); both certifications are for Windows NT 4.0.
Education
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, New Jersey
Bachelor of Engineering, 1994, Major: Computer Engineering
