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Job Title: Editor

News Organization: Computerworld

Bio: I'm online managing editor at Computerworld. I've been working on the Web full-time since the late '90s, but have done work online since the '80s. I set up one of the first newspaper bulletin board systems in 1987 and coded my first Web page (for the Bosnia Action Coalition) over Thanksgiving weekend in 1995 .

Interactive online data is one of my passions, both at work, with projects like e-voting technology state-by-state and stories based on U.S. Census data, and personally, with a site I recently coded from scratch using Ruby on Rails, FraminghamEvents.com. I really enjoyed last year's computer-assisted reporting conference. And if my boss hears me say "structured data" one more time, he may run screaming from the room.

I'm currently running some in-house training sessions to help our staff learn more about online issues, covering things like communities, HTML, and preparing and uploading images to the Web.

Computerworld.com has grown page views 16-fold during my tenure as online managing editor, and has been honored by awards and award nominations from the Online News Association, Neal Awards committee, ASBPE and more.

Outside of work, my hobbies and interests range from ham radio to classical piano, advocacy for Bosnia to computer programming (PHP, Perl, MySQL, Ruby on Rails). I also enjoy digital photography, international travel, walking, snowshoeing, reading, and community planning issues -- see my personal blog, Planning Livable Communities, at pedestrianfriendly.com.

My most exciting and rewarding trip was to Sarajevo in 1996, a couple of weeks after the siege was lifted, to meet ham radio friends in person who I'd been talking with during the war. See Report from Sarajevo: Into a City of Suffering.

My proudest accomplishment? Probably recognition from the Amateur Radio Association of Bosnia & Herc... "for extraordinary contribution to transmitting f humanitarian messages of the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina [from] 1992-1995."