JOB EXPERIENCE

• October, 2007 to Now Senior Editor for three Penton magazines and web sites, including Government Product News & Government Procurement. Write & deploy E-newsletters, manage web content and four free-lancers; produced major growth in click-throughs. Skilled in InDesign, Photoshop CS3, Excel. Promoted from Online Content Editor.
  
• March, 2002-September, 2007 Senior Research Editor-Research Manager for several Penton Media magazines. Led development of award-winning Health Care Cost Quotient statistical analysis; wrote articles on economic development, site location, & government market.
• December, 2000-March, 2002 Business Development Associate, www.ninesigma.com, an R&D web site. Generated NineSigma publicity in 40+ news outlets. Located low-budget sci-tech content that produced gains in viewership.  Promoted from Content Information Specialist.
• 1990-2000 Research Manager-Senior Research Analyst, Penton Media. Answered business-technical reference questions from 350 engineering editors & sales executives. Completed primary/secondary research projects on time, under budget. Skilled Nexis, Dialog searcher. Five-figure revenues from my annual software directories & forecast.
• Assistant Editor, Penton’s Government Group magazines.
• Assignment Desk-Tape Cataloger, WKYC-TV. Developed computer- archiving, field-producing, taxonomy-building, and database-searching skills in this weekend job at WKYC.
• 1993-2001 Reporter/Correspondent (part time). Covered city council and school board meetings for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Westlaker Times.

EDUCATION

Master's degree in library science (MLS), Kent State University, 3.74 GPA; business reference major.  BA in communications, Cleveland State Univ.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Nineteen national, regional, and state journalism and library awards since 1996; won 2007 APEX, Ohio SPJ, and Kansas City Press Club awards.

My articles on business, Web, and database topics have appeared in USA Today, Industry Week, Costco Connection, E-Content, and 110 other publications. My Introduction to the Government Market volume is now in its 4th edition; per-copy sales price: $20. More than 8,000 sold.