As a writer, editor, and marketing communications strategist, my goal is to make complex concepts easy to understand while preserving critical information.
What I do
- Tailor technical content to specific audiences at all levels
- Manage marketing campaigns in social media, email, web, and print
- Develop and maintain processes for project management
- Test different communications to find out which is best
I am a senior communications specialist at American Student Assistance and a member of the Direct Marketing Association Ethics Policy Committee.
For fun, I do occasional editing and writing for my friends at Shulman & Hill, volunteer to help students at West Roxbury Academy and the Urban Science Academy write college essays, and work on writing and other homework with students at 826Boston.
Need copy, editing, or communications help? Tell me about it.
Some Samples
- Print and email communications for student loan borrowers at a critical transition point
- Portions of asa.org and saltmoney.org
- Contributions to community.saltmoney.org and the SALT blog
- SEO-driven copy for United Domains top-level domain pages including .ARAB and .SECURE
Technical Publications
- Linux in a Nutshell 4th and 5th eds. Co-author for command reference and content on GNOME desktop
- Running Linux 4th and 5th eds. Contributor to sections on GNOME desktop and package management
- “What is GNOME,” O’Reilly Network, August 2005
- Software manuals including the Evolution User’s Guide through version 2.4 and the documentation and man pages for Novell ZENworks Linux Management 6.5
Vanity Projects
- When the Voice Speaks, a short volume of poetry
- My personal blog, Secretly Ironic
- Book reviews at Bookdwarf.com
