Profile

My last public relations position was as senior vice president and co-managing director at EvansGroup, where he set up the agency's first Los Angeles public relations office. I had formerly served as a vice president in the Los Angeles office of The Rowland Company.

Before that, I established and directed the Western public relations function for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), the world's largest AIDS organization. For my work at AmFAR, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) honored me with the Silver Anvil for not-for-profit programming in 1994. That was my second Silver Anvil; my first was for consumer marketing at Pollare/Fischer Communications in Los Angeles.

Like most in the digital world, I am a self-taught Web developer. I began developing Web sites just as the Internet began to take hold in American life, and made my first site in PageMill 1.0. Now I mostly code by hand. I was honored when the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences recognized my site for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as an Official Honoree in the 2006 Webby Awards competition. After a long freelance career as an Internet consultant, I took a job with GetBack Media; unfortunately the company ran out of funding a little over a year later, and I was hired by a new start-up, Frequency Networks.

A native Angeleno and alumnus of the public relations program at the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California, I am a past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), past board member of L.A. Shanti (an AIDS service provider), past vice-president of the Wilshire Center Interfaith Council and have co-led three pilgrimages to the Holy Land made of local Jews, Christians and Muslims. I also wrote that book you can learn about here. And here's something you don't often see in designers: I was ordained a deacon of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles by Cardinal Roger Mahony in 2004.