Portfolio
Clients
A listing of past and current clients.
Writing Samples
While I specialize in automotive, real estate and business writing, I have covered everything from daily news to the telecommunications industry.
Magazine Production
I’ve managed the editorial production of two national magazines, Upside and Linux Magazine, where I assigned and edited feature stories, columns, news items and current events in the business and technology fields. I oversaw copyediting and fact-checking and worked closely with art directors to select art and approve final layout. I worked with the ad sales coordinator to determine folio size and mapped ad and editorial pages to final design.
Newspaper Production
At Gold Country Media, I served as the Motoring and Real Estate Editor responsible for producing two weekly sections, Gold Country Motoring and Gold Country Homes, for this regional newspaper group. Both sections were distributed across the eight regional newspapers (Auburn Journal, Colfax Record, Eldorado Hills Telegraph, Folsom Telegraph, Granite Bay Press Tribune, Lincoln News Messenger, Placer Herald and Roseville Press Tribune) owned by Gold Country Media.
In addition to writing a weekly column and car review for Gold Country Motoring, compiling auto and real estate news and doing pagination and layout for both sections, I acted as a daily news reporter, handling special sections and doing page layout as needed. I was awarded the Gold Country Media Daily Editorial Shining Star award in 2003.
Advertising Production
In 2005, my family and I moved to West Linn, OR (just south of Portland) and I took a job as the Production Editor/Graphic Designer at $averCD, LLC, a startup advertising firm based in Lake Oswego. The concept behind $averCD was a digital coupon book delivered free to consumers by U.S. Mail. The SaverCD CD-ROM included free games; recipes; gardening, health and beauty tips; contest entry forms; and discount coupons from local and national retailers.
As $averCD was a startup, I helped design the GUI and individual advertising pages for local market advertisers. I was responsible for designing the external package graphics to entice users to open and use the product. Along with conceptualising and designing ads for advertisers, I also was in charge of designing and updating marketing materials to promote the company and detailed technical information to support a national sales force.
