Writing, publishing, and media production have been a lifelong passion of mine.

I started free-lance writing magazine articles on topics of interest to me when I was 12, and I've had several hundred articles published since then.

At 14, I founded my own magazine about one of my interests, the history and technology behind fire engines. By the time I was 16, I had 500 paid subscribers worldwide. I ran this magazine for over 20 years before tuning it into a web site, which I still manage today.

I've also researched, written, published, and self-marketed more than 20 books, earning me a worldwide reputation as a leading historian of fire engines, fire departments, and firefighting.

I was a reporter on both my high school and college newspapers. In college, I was co-director of a student-produced documentary about campus life, which aired on a local Public Broadcasting TV station. Since then, I've produced and marketed three more documentaries on my own.

As a teenager, I developed an interest in technology, including computers. While still in college, I helped to program computers used in typesetting.

I earned my B.A. in Journalism from Rutgers University. Soon after I graduated, there was a year-long strike against New Jersey newspapers. During that strike, no paper in New Jersey was hiring recent Journalism School graduates.

I then found an opportunity to combine my writing skills with my interest in technology, by becoming a Technical Writer. I realized that I enjoy this work, and I'm good at it. Over a span of more than 25 years, I have created a wide variety of technical and marketing documents for a broad array of high-technology hardware and software companies.

During my career, I've been involved in all aspects of Technical Communications, including assessing customer documentation needs, project planning and scheduling, budgeting, staffing, research, writing, graphics and photography, design and layout, QA testing documents, publishing in print and online, post-project analysis, and obtaining and analyzing customer feedback.

One of the technical manuals I wrote also doubled as a marketing tool, to persuade customers to buy the software. This manual demonstrated how quick, easy, and inexpensive it was to migrate exsiting spreadsheet data to the company's financial software product, allaying customer fears about the time and cost involved in data migration. My document was directly responsible for my employer's biggest software sale that year, 500 software licenses sold to a major credit card company.

My most recent Technical Writer position was at Intel in Folsom, California.

I'm looking for new opportunities to use my background as a Tehnical Writer, author, and publisher, while learning new skills and gaining new experiences.