I've been a journalist for 30 years and have enjoyed having a ring-side seat at not only the transformation of technology and the electronics business but journalism and publishing itself.

I was named Editor-in-Chief of EBN in Februrary of 2013, having come from EE Times, where I spent 18 years in two tours of duty, starting in 1992.

At EE Times, I held various positions, including business editor, managing editor, editor-in-chief, publisher, and most recently, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief. During the past three decades, I helped guide EE Times to become the news and information source for the electronics industry and transformed the property from a strictly print edition into an industry multimedia leader in the online world.

I was responsible for a number of industry firsts within the electronics sector, including one of the first blogs, the first podcasts as well as video coverage.

I was editor and driver on the groundbreaking 2011-12 project, Drive for Innovation, in which I and a videographer (my brother, as luck would have it) drove around the United States for a year, interviewing engineers. It was a life-altering experience.

In the years in between EE Times, I was senior vice president for Digital Media and Content Creation at Blanc & Otus, a public-relations agency, and director of content and community for Numetrics, a technical software firm.

Prior to joining EE Times, I was managing editor for the San Jose Business Journal, managing editor of the Providence Business News and a reporter and bureau chief for United Press International in Indiana and Rhode Island.

I was born and raised in San Francisco and received my bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).