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Senior-level communications professional with extensive experience in writing and researching. Highly versatile and accomplished writer who produces everything from how-to pieces to investigative stories and excels at making complex subjects understandable to a wider audience. Skilled at interviewing and developing sources as well as meeting deadlines, producing for print and online publications, and appearing on radio and television.

Available for freelance writing, editing and research of all kinds.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

THE JOURNALISM SHOP                                              2009

Freelance writer, researcher
Recent work includes a freelance investigative story for www.VoiceofSanDiego.org, with related blogging and a television appearance; a case study marketing piece for Microsoft Corp.; and a story-length biography of a Los Angeles businessman.

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Los Angeles, CA                      1998-2008

Staff Writer, energy                                             2003 – 2008
Covered a wide range of energy issues and trends, including renewable power, utility fraud and rates, regulatory matters, oil and gasoline markets and industry developments. Stories included features, profiles, investigative stories and breaking news.
     • Lead writer on a three-part series, “What’s Driving Gas Prices?” The stories chronicled how refiners worked to constrict supply, making California gas among the nation’s most expensive, and also delved into related issues.
     • Detailed how power company Southern California Edison falsified data for years to win customer-funded performance bonuses. Sources included nearly a dozen current and former employees. The company was later fined by regulators.
     • Reported that high gas prices prompted Americans to drive less in 2005 – the first reduction in 25 years, and a development no one else had uncovered. Gave readers an early look at related changes, such as the resurgence of cash discounts for gas station customers.
     • Wrote front-page profiles of an aging and frustrated solar power pioneer and a San Diego man whose Good Samaritan work along local highways was crimped by high gas prices.

Staff Writer, telecommunications and aerospace          1998 – 2003
Covered issues and developments in the telecommunications and aerospace industries.
     • First to report alleged financial sleight-of-hand at telecommunications company Global Crossing, a firm that was later forced into bankruptcy court.
     • Detailed the boiler-room sales methods that Pacific Bell used to boost revenue from add-on features. The company later paid a large regulatory fine.

SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, San Diego, CA            1988 – 1998
and SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE, San Diego, CA
Staff Writer, telecommunications, defense and aerospace
Covered telecommunications, software, multimedia and cable. Also covered the defense and aerospace industries during the post-Cold War upheaval. 
     • Followed the retrenchment of General Dynamics and discussed the turmoil in the 1998 PBS documentary “Surviving the Bottom Line.”
     • Co-wrote a two-part series on Science Applications International Corp. that was a finalist for the 1996 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.