- Writing and editing professionally since 1979
- Developing technical-PR strategy and text since 1999: computer networking, telecommunications, and business intelligence
- Managed a corporate website as what some in BI call a “purple person,” an intermediary and negotiator for engineers and marketing people.
- Conducted market research for a large trade-show producer as a writer of questionnaires and reports.
- 9 years of volunteer leadership in a national environmental organization
- Learned the ways of business in a long pre-career: sold newspaper advertising, commodity options, and pie; rebuilt the Anchorage Daily News library before they could afford a “real” newspaper librarian; washed dishes at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite.
