University of Pennsylvania

Stanford University

Pepperdine Caruso Law

Valar Institute

Publisher & CTO at McNaughton Media

Director of Engineering in the Products & Platform Engineering group, supporting Backend engineering on the API team, and providing customer-facing experiences in Lists, Web3 & GenAI.

Forbes

Director of Engineering (Platform Data)

Coach students through depositions, negotiations and legal analysis as part of Law In Practice, a course for legal professionals in the LLM program.

Coach

Boutique neutral practicing confidential mediation and negotiation, coaching, training and conflict consulting.

Neutral Mediation

Mediator

Engineering manager overseeing various revenue-related data initiatives, including, and especially, data Lists. Oversee the technical aspects of Forbes' universe of data people, places, companies and things. Engineering management for analytics, licensing and revenue sites.

Engineering Manager

Manage Systems department, which provided IT services and product development for 5 offices and over a dozen brands. Social media, audience development, data science and machine learning. Systems integration, operation and maintenance. Network and server management, and cloud integrations. Desktop support. Virtualization management. Mobile app and web development. Documentation and training. 

Launched digital advertising program and built-out third-party technical marketing platform and first-party DSP, used by hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses, through partnerships across CTV, Programmatic Audio and Display, Pre-roll, Microtargeting, Device ID, SEO, SEM, Email and other digital media. Community and small business marketing trainer and campaign specialist.

McNaughton Media

Chief Technology Officer

Led product development team and audience development. Accomplished content migration to WordPress CMS. Implemented design and rebranding strategy for storied brand and most-circulated print magazine in the world. Worked with editorial and sales to launch new content products in the Celebrity journalism, Food and recipe spaces. Company successfully exited.

Parade Media Group

Development Manager

Full-time developer on a Java team working in the Conde Nast technology stack.

Senior Developer

Full-time developer on Operations team. Led development of editorial tools, dashboards and data visualization. Use machine learning and applied data science related to content measurement, production and efficiency. Occasional enterprise IT and security blogging on Forbes.com.

Forbes Media

Developer

Full-time Silicon Valley reporter. Helped to launch Forbes.com blog efforts, pitching in as editorial programmer. Helped onboard True/Slant acquisition and took lead on journalist-facing tools. Spearheaded Forbes social media launch.

Staff Writer And Lead Editorial Developer

Taught a Media Lab for Professor Ann Grimes' Digital Media Entrepreneurism, developing a curriculum and teaching master students and other expert communicators how to build software applications and communicate through code.

Adjunct Instructor

Full-time Silicon Valley magazine reporter. Reported on enterprise IT, technology infrastructure and Web companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Fact-checked for staff writers at the magazine. Worked occasionally with publisher and sales team. Wrote video scripts and performed as on-camera talent.

Reporter

Full-time reporter working in reporting HQ pool. Fact-checking magazine content, regular writing of small clips for Forbes magazine and occasional writing for Forbes.com. Wrote features, picked stocks and penned reviews of luxury goods.

Full-time paid intern. Fact-checked magazine content for staff writers and reporters.

Reporting Intern

Full-time paid fellow. Guest editor of Letter to the Editors page, doing curation, editing and pagination. Monitored and edited website comments for Editorial Page opinion site. Wrote more than a dozen clips for the WSJ political newsletter Political Diary. Wrote three unsigned editorials under Review & Outlook.

The Wall Street Journal

Robert Bartley Fellow

Full-time paid intern. Wrote blog posts for the Reason blog and small magazine articles for reason magazine. Helped to lead CMS content migration. Trained in politics and law.

Reason Magazine

Burton Gray Intern

Full-time unpaid intern. Wrote monthly state-level economic releases for George W. Bush and helped staff economists with the production of the annual Economic Report to the President. Attended meetings at the Treasury, State Department and White House on behalf of the agency.

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