Clarendon

I'm blessed to have been writing professionally for over 25 years, have been a multimedia designer and content producer for 20 years and a Web designer since 1994.

I co-founded New England Times Publishing with my wife, best friend and soul mate, and have designed and have written most of the material appearing on our New England Web site http://www.newenglandtimes.com, the maintenance of which I share  with my wife and our third son.

In addition to this site, we have designed 30 others, many of which I have written, as well. The most successful of them was Supermodel.com, which was in the top 100 most visited sites for 1996 and 1997. I also designed and wrote the Official Web Site for the southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I began my publishing career as a proofreader and six months after starting in that position, I was promoted to managing editor of both  Analytical Instruments and Computers and Financial Computing magazines.

When Financial Computing was merged with United States Banker magazine, I became managing editor of the combined publications.

I won a Jesse H. Neal Award for Editorial Excellence (considered to be the Pulitzer prize for the trade press) for breaking and co-writing a story about lender liability.

I have written two syndicated columns, DotCom 101, which helped readers better understand the complexities of the Internet, the Web and related issues. Prior to that, I wrote a column about why not to panic over Y2K. As a Y2K "expert," I made appearances on TV and radio talk shows in an effort calm the worried about the coming non-storm.

I have served as editor of The DeskTop, a newsletter addressing emerging electronic-publishing technologies, and also co-authored The Plain English Guide to Desktop Publishing. I have also produced newsletters for various credit unions owned by Citibank.

My writing has appeared on the op/ed page of the Connecticut section of  The New York Times, and I was a member of the Board of Contributors at The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time newspapers in Connecticut. I have also written for Financial Enterprise a magazine published by GE Capital. In addition, I assisted Dominick Dunne in researching the Martha Moxley murder when Dunne wrote his book A Season in Purgatory.

In addition, I have written for, consulted with, or provided training for Apple Computer, GE Capital, Reader's Digest, Consumers Union, U. S. Surgical Corp., Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and American Express, among many others. I have also done training for such clients as GE, McGraw-Hill and Westpoint Stevens, among others. I was an interactive multimedia seminar presenter for Apple Computer in Connecticut.

I studied political science at the University of Connecticut and legal studies at Mercy College, from which I graduated first in my class.

In addition to my computer and publishing work, I have experience in the financial, political and medical fields. During the summers of my high school years, I worked on Wall Street in a variety of jobs, from runner to assistant bond trader. After graduating from Vermont Academy, I worked for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as a member of his campaign youth staff. After that, I worked full time at Greenwich Hospital, in Greenwich, CT, while putting himself through the University of Connecticut part time. I have also written about, and appeared on radio as an expert on, the life and assassination of President John F. Kennedy.