Experience
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- Nine years working
remotely and independently with editors on four continents without
a single missed deadline
- Extensive experience
with travel writing and reviewing, long tail web content creation,
blogging platforms, social media, and guidebook authoring
- Current and
recent clients include MSN, Delta, Verizon, USA Today, Lonely Planet,
BBC Travel, and Airbnb
- Lived abroad
for over four years, visited 51 countries
- Solid base or
passable fluency in a number of European languages, including Spanish,
Italian and Romanian
- Some public
speaking, TV and radio announcing
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- Author of Florence
Explorer and Romania
Traveler's Guide smartphone travel apps
- Work has appeared
in the San Francisco Chronicle, Travel + Leisure magazine,
Travel Ideas magazine, Postcards magazine, Travel
Savvy magazine, AOL’s Gadling.com travel blog, Experience
magazine, Vita.mn (Minneapolis weekly), Juggle magazine,
the anthology To Myanmar With Love (Things Asian Press),
HotelClub.com travel blog, Rough Guide First Time Europe (6th
Edition) and What Color is Your Jockstrap?: Funny Men and Women
Write from the Road
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Notable
Regular Clients
Lonely
Planet |
Guidebook author, online features writer
2006-Present
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On-the-ground research for numerous travel guidebook titles, including
Romania 5, Tuscany & Umbria 5, Italy 8, Eastern Europe 10, Bluelist
'07, The Europe Book
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Duties
include desk research, mapping, text formatting and fact checking
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Articles
written for LonelyPlanet.com have averaged 20,000 views
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MSN
| Writer, content creator, humorist
2007-Present
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Global
Traveler magazine
| Contributor
2004-2011
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High
familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite, Dreamweaver, Fireworks,
Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Acrobat Professional
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Experience
with website hosting, Wordpress and basic editing of HTML and CSS
Education
B.A.,
Theatre Arts from the U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1993 |
