I was with DZone for about 3.5 years. I built and managed a distributed team of DZone content contributors—Zone Leaders—who are practicing technologists and developers who write and publish most of the content you read on DZone. I lived in Vietnam for a year and a half where I worked remotely for DZone while traveling around SE Asia, and returned to the home office for a while. I am a web developer (Ruby, PHP, JS stacks) and I work at NC State University, my alma mater, where I am also studying for an MBA. In the future I'd like to continue to help technology companies spread the word about their innovative products. Additionally, I enjoy writing and I am working on my second novel.