• Thirty years as a highly effective, award-winning writer who can communicate complex ideas in a clear, concise, accessible, and readable style.
• Skilled at cutting to the chase, focusing on the nugget at the core of whatever information is to be conveyed.
• Able to adapt style to the message, the audience, and the platform. A magazine piece is different from a journal article; a marketing brochure isn't the same as a blog post or web copy.
• A creative editor who can develop the right topics for his audience and who can recognize and cultivate a good writer when he finds one.
• A good interviewer who can ask targeted questions and craft a well-constructed article from the responses.
• An effective manager who supervised a considerable budget and a great team of writers, editors, designers, ad sales people, and production managers.