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Location United States
Current Role(s): 
Owner and Founder, Harmonica, LLC
Harmonica, LLC

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
Storyhunter, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Co., ALM Media, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Journalism Online, Press+
Industries Worked In: 
Newspapers, magazines, journalism, radio, editing, reporting, writing, web development, content management, CMS development

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Other languages: 
English

On Drupal.org for 15 years 11 months

Bio: 

More than ten years' experience in web development and product / project management, with a background in journalism and online publishing going back to the days of text-only dialup services. Former newspaper reporter, editor, and programmer, one of the founders of The Wall Street Journal Online; I am so far as I know the only person with both production code and bylined articles on WSJ.com. Extensive experience in local media and Web 2.0 applications.

I work at the intersection of content, technology and product development, using my experience in each of these areas to bridge the divides between disciplines.I was a journalist in both print and online, I have an extensive background in web technology, and have launched numerous successful products. I specialize in content management and editing systems, focusing on ways to make editors' jobs easier and on repurposing their work into multiple products on different platforms. I can work with product and business people to develop an idea into a concrete specification ready to hand to developers, and work with the developers to properly implement the idea.I can also implement solutions on my own and have a decades-long track record of using technology to solve problems in newsrooms and other complicated high-pressure business environments.

Credited on 3 fixed issues