[about_me]

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I’m a guy born in San Diego, raised in Santa Barbara, educated in the Bay Area, beaten by Los Angeles and reborn back in San Diego. If you like bikes, strange subcultures, making DIY media, eating vegan food and/or wandering around in foreign (and domestic) countries, we’d probably get along swimmingly.

my work.

• October 2009 – present
  Marketing communications copywriter | ESET – San Diego, California
• March 2009 – October 2009
  Knowledgebase tech writer | ESET – San Diego, California
• May 2008 – Feb 2009
  staff writer | Los Angeles Daily Journal – Los Angeles, California
• May 2007 – August 2007
  staff writer | Cape Times – Cape Town, South Africa
• July 2004 – November 2005
  copywriter | West Marine Products – Watsonville, California

my schools.

• August 2006 – May 2008
  University of Southern California – Annenberg School for Communication
  M.A. in print journalism, dean’s scholarship recipient
• September 2000 – June 2004
  Stanford University
  B.A. in English, focus in creative writing, with honors and departmental distinction, Robert M. Golden medal for excellence in the humanities and the Marie Louise Rosenberg writing prize

my clips.

• A really basic marketing portfolio:
• Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, the National Academies of Science, California Lawyer magazine, Online Journalism Review, the Hastings School of Law Journal, MotorBoating magazine, the Marine Electronics Journal, USC Annenberg and USC Department of Public Policy, Stanford Glosses, ResidentAdvisor.net

my skills.

• reporting, photography, videography, AVID, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, html

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What people are saying:

• A nice blog from Victoria Pynchon…
• And Alan Mittelstaedt’s little screed in defense of my leaving the DJ. Thanks Alan!
• My old silly bio with gelled hair at Annenberg.