I’m musical, verbal, visual and technical. A jack of all trades! Currently giving my creative side room to run. Doing genealogy, too – it’s like a jigsaw puzzle wrapped in a crossword.

The menu bar here has items for my songwriting and photography hobbies. Those sections of this site will get fleshed out over time.

In Minnesota’s largest newsroom, 1998-2021, I was News Tech Director – content management system administrator for print publishing and a 24x7 tech advisor and troubleshooter for all kinds of newsgathering and print publishing tools and problems. I did a lot of translating back and forth between journalese and IT-ish. I was a mechanic, a teacher, a builder, a herder of cats.

My last big projects at the Strib were to quickly transition the newsroom staff to working at home at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then to help flip the Strib’s publishing paradigm from print-first-then-web to web-first-then-print. This involved gross additions and reconfigurations in content management systems.

Near the start of my career, I was one of America’s very first digital news editors, on the Star Tribune’s TriStar Videonews project of 1981. I published news stories to Compuserve, a dial-up, non-graphical national online community whose members could pay $5/hour to read content from the Minneapolis Tribune and Minneapolis Star, as well as the Washington Post, the New York Times and other papers. WAYYY pre-internet.

Here’s my Minneapolis Star Tribune staff bio page, still published at startribune.com as of November 2022. I couldn’t be prouder to have worked for that terrific, ambitious organization in publishing 10,000+ issues. And with so many talented and dedicated colleagues, to have seen the Strib through generations of tech advances.