Biography

I have been worked professionally in software development for over 20 years. Born and raised in Boston, I earned a Bachelor's Degree in English from Brandeis University and now live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with my wife, Robin, and two children, Emma and Dylan.

I work as a Documentation Specialist for SAS Institute in Cary, North Carolina, where I maintain my department's internal web site and also document the programming interfaces to various graphics components that ship with The SAS System.

In addition to working for SAS, I serves as database manager for the North Carolina Writers' Network and maintain web pages for other clients, including the McDonnell Lab at Duke University Medical Center and Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting in Durham, North Carolina.

For the past ten years, I have taught business and technical writing for the North Carolina Writers' Network and for the Duke Short Courses program.

In January 2001, I became director of the Center for Business and Technical Writing, a program of the North Carolina Writers' Network. In that capacity, I promote and coordinate writing workshops onsite for North Carolina businesses.