About

I am a writer, editor, and content strategist specializing in technology and software development.

Currently I am Senior Technical Writer at Prefect.io, helping users to orchestrate and observe their dataflows.

Past experience includes:

• Senior Technical Writer at Splice Machine, a real-time data platform providing tools for petabyte scale AI, ML, and live time-series anomaly detection.
• Founding editorial team leader at ContentLab.io, enabling effective technical content marketing for developer-focused companies.
• Columnist at Visual Studio Magazine.
• Senior Technical Writer on the ESPN Data & Platform Architecture team, creating end-to-end API documentation for ESPN.com stats, scores, and schedules.
• Senior Technical Editor at Microsoft, where I worked on developer education through Microsoft Systems Journal, MSDN Magazine, and TechNET Magazine, as well as end user and developer SDK documentation for Windows, the Windows Media platform, and DirectX.
• Director of Content Development at CodeProject.com.

I've written for O'Reilly, Application Development Trends, and Redmond Magazine.

See my LinkedIn profile for further details about my professional experience.

Community

Advocating for progress in my community is a priority. Some projects I've been involved with include:

• Southern Vermont Communication Union District (CUD) executive board member, working to bring universal fiber-based broadband to Bennington County and surrounding areas.
• Kode With Klossy mentor.
• FIRST LEGO League coach.
• CodeProject Advisory Board for Women in Technology coordinator.

Online

Follow me on:

• Twitter
• Github
• The Code Project

Writing Portfolio

Some examples of my writing:

"CSS Basics: The Box Model, Margin, and Padding", a CSS3 tutorial.

"Teaching Programming with Human Functions", a blog post I wrote about my experience creating curriculum for and teaching programming to 4th grade students.

"Writing About Code: Structure", an article based on a Vermont Code Camp presentation on writing techniques for technical authors. This is an approach to technical writing I still use today.

TapUtils is a set of command line utilities I wrote as a companion piece to an iOS application for capturing craft beer ratings. The app is gone now, but I took documenting the apps as seriously as I would any other project in the readme file.

Web Page Size, Speed, and Performance, a book published by O’Reilly.

I also contributed to the Visual Studio Magazine "Toolbox" column for many years. Here are a few columns that were more "how-to" style content.

• "How To Simplify the Dreaded Task of Documentation Publishing with GitHub Pages", an introduction to the tools I used to build and publish internal documentation using Markdown and GitHub at ESPN.
• "Automate All the Things: An AutoHotKey Primer for Developers"
• "Bash on Windows: Getting Productive with Windows Subsystem for Linux"