Experience

2003 to present: Freelance Writer, Editor and Photographer
     Writing and photography for publications including "AAA Going Places," "Executive Traveler," "Incentive," "Islands," "Latitudes," "Water's Edge," "Orlando Home & Leisure," "Space Coast Living," "Space Coast Medicine and Healthy Living," "About.com," "Chicago Sun-Times," "Ottawa Citizen," "Orlando Sentinel," “Florida Today,” “Daytona Beach News-Journal,” "The Charleston Regional Business Journal" and "Orlando Business Journal."
     Associate editor of Society of American Travel Writers newsletter "SATW Traveler."

1999 to 2003: Public Affairs Writer, "Spaceport News" Editor, NASA News Center, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

1998 to 1999: Account Executive, Watermark Strategic Communications, Melbourne, Fla.

1993-1998: Business Writer, “Florida Today,” Melbourne, Fla.

1990-1993: Real Estate Editor, “The Daytona Beach News-Journal,” Daytona Beach, Fla.

1988-1990: Copy Editor, “Birmingham Post-Herald,” Birmingham, Ala.

1986-1988: Feature Writer and Photographer, “The Dothan Eagle,” Dothan, Ala.

1984-1986: Technical Writer, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Ala.

1982-1984: Editorial Assistant, “Southern Medical Journal,” Southern Medical Association, Birmingham, Ala.

1981-1983: Photo Editor, Photographer, Assistant News Editor, Reporter, “Kaleidoscope,” University of Alabama in Birmingham student newspaper, Birmingham, Ala.

Education

B.A., University of Alabama in Birmingham, August, 1983
Major: Linguistic Anthropology, Minor: Journalism

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