Experience:
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May 2008 - August 2022
Principal, MetaSea |
Founded and ran MetaSea LLC, focused on contract news aggregation, open-source business research, data visualization and website consulting. |
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November 2005
to May 2008
Business Editor,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
Managed daily business section of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
overseeing a staff of three editors and five reporters. Worked with
reporters to guide and coordinate local coverage, while working with
Sunday business editor and layout/copy editors on production of three
daily editions. Implemented production of weekly real estate sales
listings for the section. Selected and deployed electronic calendar
and instant-messaging systems for remote-working reporters. Developed
customized spreadsheet systems to pull localized stock-market data
from Bloomberg terminal for publication.
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November 2001 to November 2005
Webmaster,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
Responsible for design and daily production of Starbulletin.com,
the Internet edition of the newspaper. Implemented major redesigns
in 2003 and 2005. Hired and trained assistant and backup staff. Adapted
the site's database-driven elections returns system to process the
newspaper's print election returns. Guided the conversion of the the
site's Breaking News section and online election-return system to MySQL/PHP.
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July 1998
to November 2001
Assistant Webmaster,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
Shared daily production duties of Starbulletin.com.
Developed and published database-driven Web applications for the newspaper,
including a statewide directory of movie listings, a fully searchable
database of Hawaii state lawmakers, and the first use in Hawaii of
a database to post live statewide election returns online. The elections
application was subsequently adapted to process election results for
the newpaper's print editions, which continued to use it through 2006. |
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October 1996
to July 1998
Assistant Business Editor,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
Designed pages, edited staff and wire-service stories
on and off deadline for newspaper's business section. Oversaw reporters
and guided coverage in business editor's absence. Converted daily layout
of section to QuarkXpress from mainframe-based pagination system. Won
Star-Bulletin Kilohana award for editing and headline writing. [Sample
page designs] |
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1992-1996
Wire Editor,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
Monitored wire-service feeds to recommend stories at
daily news meetings. Selected stories for and laid out national and
world news pages on deadline. Developed QuicKeys-based search sequences
to enhance story searching under newly introduced PictureDesk archive
system. |
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1991-1992
Copy Editor,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
Edited and wrote headlines for staff and wire-service
stories on deadline for style, spelling and consistency. |
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1988-1991
Reporter,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
Covered business, technology, planning and housing for daily Honolulu newspaper. |
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1986-1987
Reporter,
Pacific Business News |
Covered real estate, technology, air transportation,
legal disputes and new businesses for weekly Honolulu business newspaper. |
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1985-1986
Hilo correspondent,
West Hawaii Today |
Covered county council, mayor's office, police/fire
and general-assignment news for Kailua-Kona daily newspaper. |
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1985
Editor,
The Daily Computer Wire |
Edited electronically distributed daily news report
on computers and telecommunications. Covered major national hardware
and software trade conferences. |
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1983-1985
Reporter,
United Press International |
Covered general-assignment news events for Honolulu
bureau's print and broadcast clients. Rewrote stories for wire distribution. |
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