Online Producer
I've had over a decade of experience producing online content and now I work as an independent consultant doing business as Net Ingenuity. Sites I've recently worked on include those for the film Living Yoga, the Energy Market Exchange, Drake Industries, The Technology Innovation Group, LOTUS, Outcome-Centered Leadership Group, Sculpturezone, Savannah Medical Clinic and Wantha Davis, Girl Jockey. Past work includes training materials created with Rapid Intake for Bank of America, as well as sites for Austin Women's Health Clinic, Beacon's Glow, Triand, Inc, Texas Audubon's Jr Audubon, and Divine Impression. I've written copy for Geneva Partners Group, Hughes & Sloan, and Philips Alliance. There are examples of my work in Macromedia Flash animation on sites for the Alexander Technique Moving Arts Center and an introduction to an intranet site for Schlumberger. I've developed training videos and intranet training sites for IBM's Austin Learning Center. I've worked as a consultant for Human Code, managing content of 11,000 page intranet sales site for their client Dell Computers. I was the Creative Manager of Interactive Design Works, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises and the Austin American-Statesman (now Cox Interactive Media), I helped lauch Austin 360, hiring and training staff. While there, I also found content providers for Go West (a travel and recreation site, now gone), The Green Zone (a environmental community site), and a runner's site dedicated to the Capitol 10,000 race. My Web work, The Austin Cyber Hillbillies, was selected for a 1998 Texas Interactive Media (TIM) Award for Notable Accomplishment. Other projects include doing the coding for TL Ventures (the site has since changed) and Gantt Aviation and producing a relocation guide to Austin for an apartment locator, and an industrial sewing company's marketing site. I also served as Client Applications Manager for Amicus, documenting HTML authoring software and teaching their clients, including the Virginia Tech Alumni Association, how to design a Web site. In a profile, the Austin Chronicle called me "a guru of interactive content."

I started working in online communications back when it was called "Videotex." I joined Prodigy Services Company in 1987 (then known as Trintex) and served as a senior producer until moving to Austin in 1993. I was responsible for developing in-depth, original features--these were to Prodigy what a magazine supplement is to a Sunday newspaper. I created the first interactive quizzes on the Prodigy service, hosted some of the earliest bulletin boards (a couple met and married on the "Relationships" board I created), and always pushed the technology to do more and better things. In the six years I was at Prodigy, I survived five "reorganizations," and produced over 50 features.

I also have been an active member in the Her Domain of Austin since it was founded (as Austin Webgrrls) in January 1996.

Multimedia Professional
I served Director of Electronic Communications on the executive board of the International Interactive Communications Society for four years, following two years as a chapter president. I helped guide IICS into a merger with the Association of Internet Professionals, and I served on the international board of AIP for two years. I was one of two web masters who originally launched the IICS-Austin web site in 1995.

Additional multimedia work includes writing the script for a CD-ROM for IBM, "Client/Server: The 10% You Need to Know." The CD-ROM was produced in 3 months by a creative team of 16 people. While IBM expert Randy Langel wrote the book that would accompany the CD-ROM, I wrote the script based on his outline and live presentation.


Writer/Editor
I wrote the best-selling book, "The 60-Day Diet Diary," which was published by Dell in 1982. With six printings, it's sold over 250,000 copies. What's its diet secret? Interactivity. It's a workbook: in which readers record everything they eat on the right-hand pages—and read pep-talk and diet tips from Your's Truly on the left-hand pages.


Since February 2002 I have been the "Intimacies" column for Goodlife Magazine and hosting a monthly public discussion group at Book People about relationships, love, romance, and sex. My second book, Intimacies: Secrets of Love, Sex & Romance, is available at True Intimacies.com and through bookstores everywhere. Read my blog.

I help to edit Integral Yoga Magazine. I've written training materials for Aegis Mortgage Company. Before that I edited high school and college curriculum for Web-based learning for UT's Distance Education Center.

As a freelance writer, my investigative reporting appeared in the New York Post, travel writing in Diversion magazine, arts reporting in the Washington Post, historical writing in The Journal of Nursing Care. I wrote a marketing booklet for the New York Times Company. I served as an early contributor to Citysearch, writing columns about Austin's cyber-community.

My first editorial job (1978–79) was at Cue New York magazine, the weekly entertainment guide to the Big Apple. I wrote, "Choice Cues," recommending the best of New York's theater, music, dance, art and dining events—one of the two best-read columns in the magazine. I also was responsible for listing what was showing on over 800 movie screens.

As associate editor of Review magazine, the in-flight publication of Eastern Airlines (1980–1985), I did travel writing, assigned stories about business travel in New York, Boston and Washington, and negotiated rights to reprint material from leading consumer magazines. As articles editor of Woman's World (1986–1987), I assigned and edited features for the largest weekly national magazine for women.

Movie Critic
I am a "master" at going to the movies: as is proven by a piece of sheepskin from NYU's distinguished graduate department of Cinema Studies, where I studied with the late William Everson, Bill Simon and Annette Michelson. For fourteen years (1979-1993) , I served as a contributing writer for Boxoffice magazine, specializing in foreign and independent films.

Wife

I found Mr. Right in the person of Arye Shapiro (pronounce his name "R.E.A.") He's a physicist (no kidding) who worked at AMD and Sematech and is now a content developer of Web-based training for mathematics, while pursuing a career in figure sculpture. We were married on June 14, 1992, at my family's home in Cold Spring, NY. Our wedding canopy was the branches of a Japanese fire maple planted by my father when I was little. We have two cats.

Ice Dancer
(Above, left) Skating with my partner, Jim Lambert, at Bear Mountain, NY. (Above, right) It took about six years of lessons with Gary Palmer at the Skating Club of New York to earn this piece of paper. It proves that I've passed all the USFSA ice dances through the Bronze level. I served as a member of the SCNY board of directors for two of those years.