Resume/Work History 1975-2010

"I'd sure as heck hire him. I like his use of retro photos and how he places commas and periods within quotation marks correctly and consistently. A detail-oriented, old-school guy with an interesting past -- and a Navy vet to boot."

George Spelvin, Actor

January 2010 - Present

City Editor

The Ely (Nevada) Times

August 2009 - Present

Freelance Features Writer/Business Writer

The Malibu Times and Malibu Times Magazine

May 2009 - June 2009

Concierge

Entre Amigos, a hostel located in Urique, Chihuahua -- a tiny, remote pueblo in the Sierra Tarahumara (part of the expansive Sierra Madre mountain range) in Mexico’s Copper Canyon

August 2008 - April 2009

Editor

The Vernal (Utah) Express

March 2007 - August 2008

Staff Writer

Strictly Business, Central Vermont's Business Monthly

October 2005 - August 2008

Copy Editor
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus

and Sunday Rutland Herald

Features Writer/Business Writer
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, Rutland Herald, Vermont Sunday Magazine and SEVEN DAYS

June 2003 - October 2005 (Sold Business)
President
Riverwalk Records & The Howard BEAN Café (Montpelier, Vermont), a music store, venue for live music, café and home of the annual Great Green Mountain Bob Dylan Wanna-Be Contest

November 1998 - January 2003
Director Marketing & Communications
Central Vermont Medical Center (Berlin, Vermont): Coordinated marketing, advertising efforts for 122-bed Central Vermont Hospital, Central Vermont Physician Practice Corporation, and 152-bed Woodridge Nursing Home; produced monthly newsletters, promotional, sales and advertising materials; prepared press releases; met regularly with local media for positive press coverage

September 1989 - October 1996
Publications Editor & Public Relations
Barre Granite Association (Barre, Vermont), a trade association of cemetery memorial manufacturers and quarriers: Wrote, photographed, edited and produced quarterly magazine, Barre Life (circulation (10,000), and a variety of newsletters, promotional and sales materials; produced videos; wrote and delivered speeches to death-care conventions and meetings, and to various schools and civic groups; prepared budgets for and managed communications, promotion and public relations programs, trade shows and exhibits

October 1987 - August 1989
Marketing Coordinator
Long Distance North (Burlington, Vermont), a telecommunications company: Directed public relations and marketing programs, and direct-mail advertising campaigns; wrote, edited, designed and produced sales-support materials, customer newsletter and in-house publications

August 1985 - August 1987
Senior Marketing Officer
Alliance Capital Management Corporation (New York, New York), an international investment firm specializing in mutual funds: Directed advertising and public relations programs; wrote, edited, designed and produced sales-support materials
October 1983 - August 1985
Assistant Editor

Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine (New York, New York), a national consumer magazine (circulation 400,000): Developed story ideas, interviewed sources and wrote feature-length articles on all areas of personal finance

January 1983 - September 1983
Managing Editor
The Daily Clintonian (Clinton, Indiana), a daily newspaper: Developed and assigned stories; managed two reporters

August 1982 - January 1983
Editor
The Voice of Astara (Upland, California), monthly magazine of a southern California metaphysical church: Wrote, edited, designed and produced church’s direct-mail and sales-support materials

August 1980 - May 1982
Reporter
The Columbia Missourian (Columbia, Missouri), a daily newspaper: Developed story ideas, interviewed sources and wrote feature-length articles 
 

Military Service

July 1975 - July 1980

Journalist Second Class, U.S. Navy (NEC-3221: Broadcast Specialist), discharged honorably July 1980: Stringer for Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo, Japan); stringer for American Forces Radio And Television Service (Misawa, Japan); edited daily at-sea newspaper; disc Jockey for WAMR, radio station aboard aircraft carrier USS AMERICA(CV-66); operator of shipboard audio/visual entertainment system and radio station; prepared nightly television newscast; community Affairs Specialist (Norfolk, Virginia; Misawa, Japan)