Managing editor for Brighthub.com's Desktop Publishing channel; rabid sports fan and sometime participator; sky watcher (my word for adult day dreamer); transplanted easterner living in heaven-on-earth Sonoma County, California; and saving best for last, partner to wonderful California girl and mama to two incredible boys.
I have fourteen years (and still counting) of editing and writing experience in technical publishing, in print, books, and online.
Before taking on the role of Managing Editor for Brighthub.com's Desktop Publishing channel in April 2008, I worked with Bright Hub's team as Director of Content Community, where I was tasked with seeding the site with software reviews. I edited and published upwards of 300 reviews over a seven-month period.
Prior to joining Bright Hub, I spent 8 years at O'Reilly Media (1998-2006), where initially I dabbled with the book side of editing, including co-editing first editions of Designing Web Audio and Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, before finding my passion for the online world. I went to work on the www.oreilly.com website in 2000 as Web Production Editor, where I learned some of the early tools of the online trade--HTML, vi, CSS, while also writing news blurbs and copy editing and producing articles by O'Reilly authors. When oreilly.com and the O'Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) joined forces in 2002, I was promoted to Online Publications Editor, recruiting newly minted O'Reilly authors to write articles that I would edit and publish on O'Reilly Network sites. I was promoted to O'Reilly Network Editor in 2004, continuing to recruit authors and edit articles before turning my focus in late 2005 to O'Reilly's nascent PDF publishing program, where I recruited authors, edited their material, and readied the PDFs for publication.
My editing career began at Ziff-Davis (1992-1998), where I learned the ropes of magazine publishing, first as a Research Editor, fact-checking all the articles in each month's edition of PC Computing magazine. When I was promoted to Copy Editor for the same magazine, I was responsible for editing copy, including substantial line editing, for 30 to 35 pages per month, as well as supervising copy flow through the production cycle, and quality control on all changes. I also wrote short reviews for The Source and edited Office Computing and Equip, quarterly magazine supplements to PC Computing.