Resume

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

June 2009 — Present
Contributing writer, CSO Online, covering enterprise security and CIO magazine, covering artificial intelligence. Also write enterprise technology features for other IDG publications including Network World, Computerworld, InfoWorld and PC World. as well as non-IDG publications including Data Center Knowledge, TechTarget, Independent Banker, Treasury & Risk, and  PaymentsSource.

She speaks regularly at industry conferences, both traditional and online, about cybersecurity and virtual reality. Since 2015, she’s been a judge of the CSO50 annual cybersecurity awards, and was a judge for the Epica Awards in 2018 and 2020.

In 2020, she won the National Gold Award  from the  American Society of Business Publication Editors  for her article  Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling. In April 2018, she received the Silver Impact/Investigative award  at the New England ASBPE Awards of Excellence for the article “What is a supply chain attack?”

Latest appearances:

September 2020 — Present

Editor and publisher, MetaStellar, an online publication dedicated to speculative fiction. As of the end of May, 2021, MetaStellar had more than 35,000 page views, received nearly 700 story submissions, was accredited as a Google News publisher, and published more than 200 pieces by more than 110 writers.

March 2009 — Present

Editor and publisher, Hypergrid Business an online publication indexed by Google News that covers enterprise uses of immersive virtual reality environments and virtual worlds. Since its launch, more than 3.2 million people have visited Hypergrid Business, reading over 3,000 articles by more than 200 different contributors.

June 2001 — June 2010
Asia & Technology Correspondent, Securities Industry News. Cover technology issues that impact the securities industry, as well as Russia, the Middle East. Ran the company’s Shanghai bureau from 2004 to 2009.

January 2006 — April 2010
Founder and   President, Trombly Ltd. Managed the company’s Shanghai office, including a staff of up to a dozen business journalists, providing coverage to dozens of US and European publications. Clients included SourceMedia’s Securities Industry News and CardLine Global; Reed Elsevier’s PharmAsia News; and Thomas Publishing Co.’s Managing Automation,   The Hollywood Reporter, IDG’s Computerworld, CIO, and InfoWorld.

February 2000 — May 2001
Senior Writer, Computerworld. Covered the financial services beat, with occasional technology management features. Travel included technology conferences around the United States and a week-long trip to Russia to interview that country’s top banking officials

1994-2000
Freelance Writer and Editor based in western Massachusetts and the Midwest. Wrote for Quill and BusinessWest, business features for the Springfield Union-News and Sunday Republican, and reported for the Associated Press.   Wrote A Journalist’s Guide to the Geneva Conventions for the SPJ, published fall 2000. Edited the Indiana publication The Business Network, and acted as pro-tem Michigan-area bureau chief for UPI.

1993-1994
Correspondent, Reuters and Reuters Television. Wrote news and feature stories about civil war and other issues in the Caucasus and Central Asia.   Also contributed to The Guardian (Great Britain) and Moscow Magazine.

1992-1993
National Editor, The Moscow Tribune, Russia. Recruited and trained correspondents, managed layout staff, edited text and photographs, wrote editorials and late-breaking front-page stories on Russian politics and the former Soviet politics.

1991-1992
Reporter, The Chicago Tribune. Covered schools, politics and environmental issues in   Lake County communities in suburban Chicago. Series of articles chronicled a state-level investigation of an elected representative, the controversy surrounding a proposed power line, and the growing narcotics problem in the affluent northern suburbs.

EDUCATION

1995-1996
Post-graduate work at Indiana University in Central Eurasian Studies.   Coursework included Farsi and Uzbek languages and the history of Islam.

1986-1991
Graduated Cornell University with a BA in Mathematics. Coursework included physics, chemistry, and science writing. As a student, edited the Cornell Chemistry Department newsletter and helped edit the textbook Differential Equations: A Dynamical Systems Approach. Received an NSF undergraduate research grant.

EDITING EXPERIENCE

Trombly International (formerly Trombly Ltd.)
Trained and managed a team of staff and freelance writers and copyeditors in Shanghai, China from 2004 to 2010. Responsible for dozens of stories each week covering Asia’s financial, pharmaceutical, technology, manufacturing and entertainment industries. Traveled extensively throughout Asia

The Moscow Tribune
Edited the national news pages for this English-language daily, 1992-93. Recruited writers in former Soviet republics, assigned news and feature stories and photography. Supervised electronic layout staff.

Express-Chronicle
Edited English edition of this Russian human rights newsweekly, 1992. Managed translation and electronic layout staff.

Longmeadow News
Edited a small paid-circulation weekly in western Massachusetts, 1997. Managed a staff photographer and freelance writers. Designed and laid out pages and managed manual pasteup process.

Business Network
Edited a bi-monthly Indiana-based business publication, 1996. Supervised freelance writers and managed electronic layout staff.

Indiana Builder Magazine
Features editor for building industry magazine, 1996.

EARLY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SPRING 2000
SIA Day on The Street
Attended a day-long program for journalists sponsored by the Securities Industry Association, which included meetings with top Wall Street executives and officers from the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market, as well as brief seminars on the top issues facing the securities industry.

OCT. 28, 2002
Financial News Reporting – A Primer
Attended this day-long seminar on financial statement analysis, co-sponsored by the Association of Investment Management and Research and SABEW. The session covered accounting bascis, like the balance sheet and cash flow. Top financial analysts also discussed today’s hot topics like stock options, revenue recognition, goodwill, pro formas, loan guaratees and principle-based accounting.

OCT. 29, 2002
Financial Reporting and Reality
Attended a day-long seminar for security analysts, portfolio managers and other investment professionals to hear presentations by leaders in the field, such as Charles L. Hill of Thomson First Call and David Blitzer of Standard and Poor’s. The seminar was sponsored by the Association of Investment Management and Research and SABEW.

NOV. 8 – 10, 2002
2002 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
Attended three-day writing conference at Harvard University. Errol Morris, Molly Ivins, Malcolm Gladwell, Peter Turnley, Rick Bragg, Roy Peter Clark, The Kitchen Sisters, E. O. Wilson and more than a dozen other acclaimed storytellers covered the nuts-and-bolts of reporting, writing, and editing narrative, and focused on two themes – carrying narrative beyond mawkishness to illuminate complex institutional and societal stories; and, integrating editors into the narrative process.

SPRING 2003
SIA Day on The Street
Attended a two day-long program for journalists sponsored by the Securities Industry Association, which included meetings with top Wall Street executives and officers from the Nasdaq Stock Market, as well as brief seminars on the top issues facing the economy and the securities industry.

SEPT. 11 – 13, 2003
SPJ National Convention
Attended the three-day professional journalism conference in Tampa, Florida. Received the President’s Award for work heading the International Journalism Committee.

OCT. 6 – 15, 2003
Asian Journalism Conference
Attended the ten-day regional journalism conference in Seoul, S. Korea as part of the SPJ delegation. Visited S. Korean media outlets and major industries and met journalists from Japan, China, Singapore and other Asian countries.

NOV. 24-25, 2003
European Libel Law Round Table
Represented the SPJ at a two-day conference about libel and defamation laws sponsored by Reporters without Borders and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

DEC. 5 – 7, 2003
2002 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
Attended three-day writing conference at Harvard University.


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society of Professional Journalists
President, New England Pro Chapter, 2003-2004. Chair, International Journalism Committee since spring 2003 and author of the “Journalists’ Guide to the Geneva Conventions.” Member since 1991.

National Writers Union
Former treasurer and former steering committee member of Western New England Local. Organized the June, 2002 Mid-Career Conference, “Expanding your horizons to make it in a down economy” and the May, 2000 Mid-Career Conference, “The Writer and the Internet: How Communication Technology Is Changing the Industry.” Member since 1998.

Freelance Business and Technology Writers Association
President and cofounder since October of 2002. In January of 2004, roted out of the role of president and was appointed Managing Director of the organization, which has grown to include members from across the United States and Europe.

Society of American Business Editors and Writers
Member since 2000.

American Society of Business Publication Editors
Member since 2002.