CUSTOMER STORIES
Creative technology storyteller with seasoned organizational, communications, and cross-cultural people skills.
Extensive experience on high-visibility, enterprise-scale content projects with a range of cross-functional partners: product engineering, product management, brand management, legal, and executive leadership.
Experienced leadership and technical communicator (leadership presentations; marketing materials; technical blog content)—knowledgeable in networking, security, and cloud-native technologies.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Focused on innovation and product development, Florida Crystals Corporation is a joint owner of ASR Group International, the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belize, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Italy. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service, and specialty sweetener products.
Biotechnology firm Regeneron uses the power of science to bring new medicines to patients in need. It faced the industry-wide challenge of securely managing increasing volumes of scientific data, while keeping compliant with FDA data handling and storage requirements.
Aon exists to shape decisions for the better-to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. Through actionable analytic insights, globally integrated Risk Capital and Human Capital expertise, and locally relevant solutions they provide clients in more than 120 countries and sovereignties with clarity and confidence to make better decisions.
Glencore Technology, a subsidiary of Glencore PLC, one of the world's largest, globally diversified natural resource companies, needed to upgrade its sales solution. The previous solution struggled with poor customer engagement tracking in addition to reporting-and lacked integration capabilities.
Lander & Rogers, an influential Australian law firm with a practice spanning a broad spectrum of sectors and industries, needed to upgrade its fleet of devices to meet the demands of both remote and in-office work. The Surface Laptop empowered the firm to follow modern deployment and management strategies-and with Microsoft Intune and Autopilot, it reduced deployment time from 3 hours to 40 minutes.
The Municipality of Almere in the Netherlands is the country's newest city, built on land reclaimed from the North Sea. It sought to create a modern workplace for its employees. Employees were dissatisfied with their laptops and outdated workstation configurations-and had expressed a measure of low satisfaction in their employer.The city evaluated competitive hardware solutions but saw compelling value in a Surface Pro Windows 11 device.
Principal was successfully tracking ongoing corporate strategy within its multiple lines of business, but mapping goals across the entire company created challenges. Aligning to an enterprise-wide strategic vision was necessary for future company growth. Viva Goals integration with Microsoft 365 apps allowed the company to incorporate the product into daily workflows.
Nationwide Building Society's 18 million United Kingdom members share ownership and profit in the world's largest building society. The organization has long invested in personalized service to its member community, providing home ownership and savings opportunities. To address growing business operations and continue to effectively serve its membership, Nationwide faced a critical need to replace its aging on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure platform.
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. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the largest physics machine ever built, and experiments using the collider generate close to an exabyte (one billion gigabytes) of data in the quest to understand the mysteries of the universe. Machine learning on the global-sized network and speed of FPGAs have the scope to improve data analysis for particle physics.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
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.
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 Inspire in the voice of Erin Rifkin, Vice President, Developer Relations.
INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM
Interview with theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking that I hosted at the press conference, Seattle Science Festival, 2012.
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 Jeff Norris, Founder and Director, JPL Ops Lab, about building virtual interfaces for human-guided, robotic space exploration.
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 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 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.
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.
Overview of the 2013 Seattle Science Festival—with theoretical physicists Brian Greene, Sean Carroll, and Adam Frank.
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.
Review of the features and performance of the Chromebook Pixel.
WIRED GEEKDAD BLOG
Interview with actor, singer, and entrepreneur Zachary Levi about the National STEM Video Game Challenge, technology, and teaching kids digital literacies.
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.
Review of BrickCon 2011, the LEGO exhibition—and the importance of teaching STEM skills to the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers.
Article that considers the historical presence of violence in both fairy tales and video games—and its effect on child development.
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.