Xnmp, the Christian News & Media Portal . . . Nanty Glo Home Page, serving Blacklick Valley, Cambria County, PA and Gwent, Wales, the UK

Professional

• Founder-publisher and editor of Xnmp, the Christian News & Media Portal, 2002-present.
• Technical writer, web developer, Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, Calif., a billion-dollar manufacturer of programmable logic devices, January 2000-.
• Y2K Specialist, Technical Writer, Tava|R.W.Beck, llc., Los Angeles, Calif., October 1998 through December 1999. Wrote contingency plans for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Year 2000 preparedness program; wrote for and edited its major preparedness document, the Program Management Plan, and wrote and programmed the LADWP's Y2K intranet web home page. After completing LADWP projects, repeated the same for the Los Angeles Department of Public Works Bureau of Sanitation in Marina del Rey.
• Technical Writer, Kanisa, Inc., Cupertino, Calif., 1997-1998 (12 months). Writing user interfaces for financial planning software, writing Knowledge Management scripts, writing user support documentation, editing company documents.
• Editor/publisher/webmaster, Nanty Glo Home Page, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and South Wales, the UK.An all-electronic community magazine, 1997-present.
• Editorial, writing, 1996-present, and worldwide website consultant.
• Executive editor, Times Group of community newspapers, San Jose, Calif., and editor Almaden Times, Blossom Valley Times, Cambrian Times, Campbell Times, Santa Teresa Times, Willow Glen Times, 1989-1996. Was founding editor of five of these papers. Besides editing all content of seven newspapers, did graphical layout of all papers' editorial content using desktop publishing application.
• Webmaster, Times Newspaper Group, designed Internet worldwide web site and created in htm language hundreds of pages of news and feature articles and departments, archiving two years of Times editions, 1994-1996.
• Technical editor, Personal CAD Systems, 1987-89.
• Founding director and editor, Writers Connection, San Jose, Calif., 1983-86.
• Founding editor of Renaissance Review and New Reformation magazines, and director of independently funded campus ministry, Kuyper Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara (1969-72), and Stanford University (1972-83).
• Managing editor, Christian Beacon, 1964-68.
• Editor, Nanty Glo, Pa., Journal, and feature editor Sedloff newspaper group, 1962-64.
• Teens columnist, Sedloff newspaper group, 1957-61.

Books

• Evangelicalism and Orthodoxy, awaiting publication.
• Around the World on $50 A Day, 1996, published online.
• Vacations in Vistaland, Tourguide of 23 Pennsylvania Counties, 1963, published by Penelec.
• The Youth Revolution, 1968, published by International Christian Youth.
• The Reformation of Journalism, 1973, published by the Craig Press, U.S., and Wedge Publishing, Canada.
• The Message of the Movies, 1976, published by Kuyper Institute, Stanford.

Teaching

• Adult writing seminars, West Valley College, 1981-89.
• Developed and taught seven credit seminars in media and social topics at Stanford University, including the first known seminar on minorities in the mass media.

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles, master of arts in journalism.
• Shelton College, bachelor of arts in English.
• Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church, graduate study in theology.
• University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown and Pittsburgh, major in English writing.

Personal

• Member, St. Stephen's Orthodox Church
• Father of three children and grandfather of two: daughter, Chrisl (1969); two sons, Michael (1974), and Kevin (1976); grand-daughter, Brandi (1991), grandson, Antony Ian, (1996).

INTERESTS

• Reading. Especially fiction by C.S. Lewis and his influences and the inklings, and nonfiction on religion, especially Orthodoxy. Especially at Almaden Valley Athletic Club. Favorite author: Dostoyevsky.
• The movies as literature; check out reviews.
• Developing the Nanty Glo Home Page; participating in its email forum, Nanty Glo.
• Travel and travel writing. Recent major project: By Rail to England, Scotland, and Wales. See also,  Around the World on $50 A Day. Besides the Times Group, articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit Free Press. Newspaper supplement, Vacations in Vistaland, won a 1964 Keystone Press Award.

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