Experience

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  San Antonio Express-News

  • San Antonio, Texas

  • Food writer and restaurant critic

    • Sep 2016 - Present
    • San Antonio, Texas

    As the Express-News restaurant critic and reporter, I cover the light-speed growth and layered depth of San Antonio's restaurant scene. The Express-News food section — Taste — has been named the nation's best food section in its class for six years running by the Association of Food Journalists. No pressure.

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  FedManWalking.com

  • Austin, Texas Area

  • Food journalist and founder

    • Jul 2011 - Present
    • Austin, Texas Area

    Writer, photographer and web designer for FedManWalking.com, a site devoted to news, reviews and features from Austin’s evolving food and restaurant scene. Startup funding from the Austin tech company Renaissance Systems Inc. More than 1,000 articles to date, with half a million page views in 2015 and 4,300 Twitter followers.

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  Renaissance Systems, Inc

  • Austin, Texas

  • Marketing Director

    • Jun 2011 - May 2016
    • Austin, Texas

    Designed sales flyers, print and digital advertising and built company site, www.rsitex.com.

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  Austin American-Statesman

  • Austin, Texas Area

  • Writer, section editor, restaurant critic, art director, copy editor and designer

    • Oct 1985 - Jul 2011
    • Austin, Texas Area

    • Restaurant critic and reporter, 2008-2011: I wrote more than 400 reviews, features and news stories about the business and pleasure of dining out in Austin. Posted more than 800 entries to the Forklore blog that accompanied the beat. Awards from the National Headliners Foundation and the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors.• Food Section editor, 2009-2010: Supervised staff and freelance writers and photographers to produce a wide-ranging weekly section on food trends, traditions and personalities.• Art director, XL entertainment magazine, 1994-2008: Supervised a crew of designers and freelance illustrators and photographers to produce a weekly magazine devoted to Austin arts, music, family events, movies and food. Multiple design awards from the Society for Newspaper Design, National Association of Sunday and Features Editors and Texas Associated Press Managing Editors.• Editor, XL entertainment magazine, 2007: For one gloriously long, hot summer, I was in charge of the magazine, supervising six writers, two designers and an army of freelancers for stories about lakeside flooding and drought, the Austin City Limits Festival and Los Lonely Boys.• Sunday editor, 1992-1994: Oversaw the production and staffing of the Sunday paper, designing both the front page and Insight sections and supervising the content.• Copy editor and designer, 1985-1992: Copy editor, editorial-page designer, Metro layout and front-page designer for the first Gulf War, the Rodney King riots and the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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  The Idaho Statesman

  • Boise, Idaho

  • Dow Jones Copy Editing Intern

    • May 1985 - Aug 1985
    • Boise, Idaho

    Summer internship working on the News Desk and reporting stories in Boise.