QUALIFICATIONS

I'm an experienced writer in many areas, including travel, tattoos, and wine, and I am an experienced concert, landscape, and portrait photographer. I speak Italian and am familiar with Italy, both as a traveler and as a resident. I worked as a fine-dining waiter for nine years.
    
WINE AND TRAVEL WRITING

Bootsnall     Aug. 2011-Current
Write culinary travel articles specializing on Europe.
 
Northstar Travel Media     Feb. 2009-Current
Research, update, and develop world-wide travel guides

Europe Up Close    June 2009-Current
Write two articles a week offering insider travel tips and anecdotes

Portland Restaurants.com    Aug. 2010-Aug. 2011
Write reviews and articles on Portland's best restaurants

i-Italy Magazine     Nov. 2008-Oct. 2009
Wrote food, travel, and lifestyle features as well as the weekly wine column, Sipping from the Heel

Professional Travel Guide    Feb. 2009-April 2009
Updated and rewrote Milan travel guide
    
Thomas Riggs & Co.    Jan. 2009-Feb. 2009
Wrote fact-oriented travel guides for U.S. cities
    
San Francisco Restaurants.com    Jan. 2008-Nov. 2008
Wrote reviews and articles on San Francisco’s best restaurants

RECENT FREELANCE PUBLICATIONS
    
Skin&Ink Magazine    Jan. 2008-Current
Research and write historically accurate articles on tattoos, photograph tattoos, and conduct interviews   

Total Tattoo Magazine    Nov. 2007-Current
Write articles on tattoos as art, take professional photographs, and conduct interviews       

Your Music Magazine    Jan. 2007-March 2009
As a staff writer, interviewed bands, reviewed concerts and CDs, and photographed concerts, such as Warped Tour and Mayhem Festival

Plutoz    May 2008-Feb. 2009    
Wrote Web site reviews of product-related Web sites, particularly in the areas of music, theater, nightclubs, mp3s, and online radio

RELATED WORK

Big Weekend Calendars    Sept. 2010-Current
Editor of the 2012 Portland Events calendar (wall calendar). Edit, research, write, brand, and operate social media.

Winery Worker    Sept.-Nov. 2010
Made wine at Dobbes Family Estate winery in Dundee Hills, Oregon.

INTERN EXPERIENCE 

The Believer Magazine    June 2006-Jan. 2007
Worked closely with Managing Editor and Publisher Andrew Leland and Editor Eli Horowitz of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern; completed fact-checking of high profile literary articles, reviewed plays, and devised advertising schemes
    
ZYZZYVA Literary Journal    April 2006-Jan. 2007
Worked closely with Editor Howard Junker editing and reading submissions and doing layout

LITERARY PUBLICATIONS

ZYZZYVA Literary Journal - Nine Days In Maine 

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY 

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy    May 2004
Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY  

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE 

Quality Rater, Google, Telecommuting    August 2007–March 2009
Rated the quality of web sites according to Google’s high standards

Reactions to Terrorist - Bard College/Humboldt University Symposium in Berlin, 2003
Lecturer, participant in the two-day panel discussion

Excellent References Available on Request