I am a trained journalist versed in myriad storytelling techniques and Associated Press style. I have past experience covering public safety, higher education, technology and pop culture for a variety of publications.
I founded Nerdvana in August 2007 while working as a copy editor and page designer at the East Valley Tribune to increase the paper’s online pop culture offerings. It placed first in the “Best Feature Blogs” category of the Arizona Press Club’s 2011 and 2010 Best Journalism in Arizona and second in 2009, and on several occasions has made the Wired magazine’s GeekDad list of people to follow on Twitter.
In 2016, I acquired and spun off Nerdvana as an independent venture at nerdvanamedia.com
Speaking of GeekDad, I have been invited to write for the popular blog (once hosted by Wired magazine) on several occasions.
For more than six years, I led digital media operations at The Pueblo Chieftain in southern Colorado as digital editor, with occasional writing contributions.
I now work in public affairs for the Pueblo Chemical Stockpile Outreach Office.
I also have experience with email newsletters, including RSS feed-driven content and curated content.
Recent content:
- Google, search and artificial intelligence
- Thoughts on Threads …
- Who’s plundering print?
- An upgrade for ACWA
- A new chapter for Books Again!
- Welcome home, Samurai Comics
- LepreCon 48 convention website goes live
- Review – ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Brings Starfleet Life Crashing Down To Earth
- Public Comments Open on Pueblo Plant Permit
- Pueblo Plant Achieves Monthly Processing Record
- Baseline Reconfiguration of 4.2-Inch Mortar Rounds Complete
- Pueblo Static Detonation Chamber Units Covered, Energized
- Pueblo Plant Resumes Chemical Weapons Destruction
- VIDEO: Pueblo Plant Modifications Improve Safety and Efficiency
- VIDEO: Pueblo Plant Marks 50% Agent Destruction Milestone
- Shipments Reduce Salt Water Risk to Storage Tanks
- U.S. Army Inspectors Give Pueblo Plant High Marks
- Pueblo Plant Destroys Half of Chemical Stockpile in Colorado
- Air Supply Offers Alternative Power Source to Wiring in Corrosive Area
- Lab Employees Represent Pueblo Plant at STEM Fair
- Plant Workers Prepare for Munitions Destruction Changes
- Workers Improve Safety With Equipment Modifications
- Officials Visit Pueblo Plant, Tour Static Detonation Chamber Site
- At GeekDad: Space cat Felicette statue unveiled at French university
- VIDEO: Future Engineers Explore Technology Destroying U.S. Chemical Arsenal
- Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission Chair Addresses World Conference
- Preparations Underway for Pueblo Static Detonation Chambers
- Pueblo Plant Marks Successful Year of Operations
- Sprung Structures Rise at Static Detonation Chamber Sites
- 2019: Looking back on the year, the decade, and beyond
- Pueblo Plant Readies 3rd Module to Process Hydrolysate
- Plant, Depot Officials Keep Local Governments Briefed on Stockpile
- Destruction Campaign Progresses at Pueblo Plant
- Pueblo Plant Begins Static Detonation Chamber Assembly
- Pueblo Plant Pursues Final Operating Permit for Main Process
- Chemical Demilitarization in the Classroom
- Movie theater’s practices are hastening its demise
- Pueblo Plant Destroys More Than 1,000 U.S. Tons of Chemical Warfare Agent
- Principal Deputy Named to Support Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Employees Make Strides in Pressurized Protective Suits
- Carbon Filter Replacements Keep Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant’s Emissions Safe
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Increases Munitions Processing Rate
- Grow With Google brings digital skill development to Pueblo
- Memorial to France’s Forgotten Space Cat Finds Home, New Design
- First Static Detonation Chamber Components Arrive at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Reaches Halfway Point in First of Three Agent-Destruction Campaigns
- Successful Demonstrations Lead to End of Pilot Testing at Pueblo Plant
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Transitions From Pilot Testing Into Full Operations
- Surging sand dunes!
- Acting Site Project Manager at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Named to Permanent Post
- Pueblo Chemical Depot Welcomes New U.S. Army Commander
- Pueblo Plant Resumes Chemical Agent Destruction
- Static Detonation Chamber Construction Begins at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Pueblo Plant Employee Groups Drive Innovation
- How to get started with Dungeons & Dragons
- Alternate Site Used for Annual Emergency Response Exercise in Pueblo
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Regains a Containment Area After Thorough Cleanup
- Efficiencies in Munitions Processing Demonstrated at Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Heroic robots!
- Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
- Nintendo trims online game selection
- VIDEO: A Walk on Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant’s Wild Side
- The Gutenberg and the Bad
- Pueblo Plant Hosts International Chemical Weapons Council
- New Bechtel Pueblo Team Manager Keeps Momentum
- VIDEO: Colorado Residents Learn About Static Detonation Chamber
- Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Achieves Chemical Agent Destruction Milestone
- Alert Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Workers Keep Downtime to a Minimum
- St. Baldrick’s
- A professional update
- Interim Site Project Manager Selected for Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
- Polar Plunge
- Southern Colorado Press Club Announces Grant for Communications-Based Projects
- In a time of ‘fake news,’ newspapers, digital are trusted community partners
- Return of the king
- When and how to use Excel and Dreamweaver together for data tables
- I made a ‘zine
- Pueblo food delivery options growing
- Old-school Doctor Who on Twitch!
- These are a few of my favorite newsletters
- NOTEBOOK DUMP: Using WordPress blogging sites for building a personal online portfolio
- Southern Colorado Press Club continues grant for communications-based projects for second year
- Infographic: Pueblo County marijuana cultivation licenses
- R.I.P. Karen Wittmer
- Remember the space cat
- Wii package gets Nintendo Power-inspired newspaper play
- Super Mario Bros. 3: Chasing airships in arcades, pizza parlors and at the movies
- A very good question
- I know nothing? Eat crow!
- Video Games Live Returns Again To Phoenix
- Nintendo Power-ful tribute to Super NES Classic games
- Nerdvana Media turns Ten Years Old Today
- WordPress.com Business Now Supports Plugins and Third-Party Themes
- Can Facebook woo publishers – again?
- Key Apple updates for publishers (Nieman Journalism Lab)
- Why don’t archivists digitize everything?
- Tagging with the devil
- Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017
- Award-winning videos from 2016
- We shall not look upon his like again.
- Now I Know: WordPress page template customization and more
- What a real man looks like
- Probably an unpopular view…
- MiG restoration at Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum
- Embedding is the new linking
- This comic is my new spirit animal
- Create a document to plan your social posts
- Chieftain 360: Colorado State Fair Carnival Sneak Peek
- VIDEO: World War II veteran Bruce Elson – From Pueblo, Colo., to Hiroshima, Japan
- Pueblo’s Pokemon potential
- Next stop: wherever you say …
- Some CHONC in your TRONC
- Chieftain 360
- Pueblo County’s illegal home pot grows
- Making Nerdvana great again
- It’s a Star Wars life
- Episode 7 Days of Star Wars
- STAR POWER: Fanatics make midnight run for ‘Phantom’ toys
- Star Wars bloopers
- Scottsdale author lives some fans’ dream, continues Lucas legacy in ‘Star Wars’ novels
- Power of the Force
- ‘General’ treats modern Ireland justly
- Thousands mourn slain Phoenix officer
- ASU student shot, remains paralyzed
- Clinton: Booming budget bad time to begin tax cuts
- Senior spins wheels — the healthy way
- Tempeans protest self-serve gas station
- ASU police officer arrested after bar fight; remains on paid leave
- Pastor goes Hollywood in Advent
- ABOR approves 5 percent tuition hike
- Shuttle service from ASU West dissatisfies some students
- Colorado film festival features photography student’s works
- Evolution education now added to state high school standards
- Museum cleared of criminal violations
- Arizonans mourn loss of Sen. Goldwater