United States
Technical and creative storyteller—with over 25 years of creative and technical leadership across industry verticals—cloud computing, software, e-commerce, video games, and emerging technologies.
My journalism work has appeared online in Forbes Tech, Wired, Ars Technica, Dell Perspectives, Medium, and in print in Beckett's Massive Online Gamer Magazine.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Thought leadership blog post for Microsoft Inspire in the voice of Omar Khan, General Manager, Microsoft Azure—on digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thought leadership blog post for Microsoft Ignite in the voice of Omar Khan, General Manager, Microsoft Azure—on cloud computing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tier 1 product announcement in the voice of Saket Gupta, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Azure—for the launch of Azure Advisor Score.
CUSTOMER EVIDENCE
To achieve its vision of delivering an employee experience that rivals the simplicity and ease of use of the best consumer experience, Kantar moved from on-premises to cloud-based Intune endpoint management. In preparation for its deployment of Windows 11 Enterprise, the company spun up Windows 365 Cloud PCs-and is harnessing the power of generative AI with Copilot.
North Carolina-based sports club NC Fusion needed to increase the content production of marketing campaigns to match the growing needs of its programs. The club chose a comprehensive Microsoft solution comprising the real-time journeys feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Dynamics 365 Sales, and Fundraising and Engagement (Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit).
Video script for an Azure machine learning solution, a deep learning acceleration service running on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)—that can process zettabyte amounts of large-scale particle physics datasets.
Executive summary describing the value proposition of a blockchain-based platform for buying and selling virtual videogame assets.
TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
Technical onboarding guidance for developers regarding Microsoft Graph Data Connect.
Guidance to developers regarding app registration for Microsoft Graph Data Connect.
Guidance to global administrators on authorizing Microsoft Graph Data Connect apps in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM
Interview with theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking that I hosted at the press conference, Seattle Science Festival, 2012.
Interview with Jeff Norris, Founder and Director, JPL Ops Lab, about building virtual interfaces for human-guided, robotic space exploration.
Interview with pioneer journalist and technologist Nonny de la Peña, describing how she uses virtual reality (VR) technologies in her work to inspire empathy in the audience.
Interview with Pacific Science Center’s Diana Johns, Vice President of Exhibits and Life Sciences, on Seattle's Pacific Science Center's 2015 exhibit, Pompeii: The Exhibition.
Interview with Jane Poynter, CEO, World View Enterprises, on the importance of girls' STEM education, future space travel to Mars, and Biosphere 2.
FORBES TECH
Article on the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) lightweight rocket that will transport the sample return container, or Orbiting Sample, into Mars orbit as part of NASA and ESA's (European Space Agency's) Mars Sample Return Program, with planned launch to Mars in 2028.
Article on the technological and medical feasibility of Torpor-Induced Transfer Habitat's "therapeutic hypothermia"—a complex technology system for stasis habitat during interstellar human spaceflight that could benefit future Mars space exploration missions.
Article on Planetary Resources' ongoing mission to extract natural resources from near-Earth asteroids with "low cost commercial robotic spacecraft"—and the ARKYD, the world's first publicly-accessible space telescope.
Article on how science fiction, notably, the Star Trek television series, has influenced the future development of technologies like the mobile phone and the iPad.
Article on NASA and private space industry's collaborative effort to create a sustainable model of a space economy by extracting and processing near-Earth natural resources.
Article on how the Hubble Space Telescope has advanced human understanding of dark matter with the discovery of the largest known grouping of "globular star clusters."
Overview of the 2013 Seattle Science Festival—with theoretical physicists Brian Greene, Sean Carroll, and Adam Frank.
Review of the features and performance of the Chromebook Pixel.
Article on the 2013 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission that orbited the Martian upper atmosphere to find answers to the origin of the planet's atmosphere and climate.
WIRED GEEKDAD BLOG
Interview with actor, singer, and entrepreneur Zachary Levi about the National STEM Video Game Challenge, technology, and teaching kids digital literacies.
Interview with Bernadette McDaid, VP of Production for Science and executive producer of Through The Wormhole, Discovery's science documentary television series—on host Morgan Freeman's questions on science, humanity, and the outer limits of our universe.
Review of the OnLive Game System, an early platform for cloud gaming.
Review of BrickCon 2011, the LEGO exhibition—and the importance of teaching STEM skills to the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers.
How many geeky dads and geeky moms want to play their favorite game when they are on the go, instead of waiting to get back to their home PC? But you need a hefty machine that can deal with running games that can be very demanding on your CPU and GPU.
Article that considers the historical presence of violence in both fairy tales and video games—and its effect on child development.