Professional Experience

Comedy Mentor and Instructional Designer | LiveNation, Greater Than The Sum (servicing Google), Mountain View, CA | Oct 2016 - PRESENT

• 4.9/5 review score across courses, with hundreds of reviews saying nice stuff like “highlight of my life,” “groundbreaking,” “you looked better with a beard,” and other quotes you can find here.

• Write the comedy textbook I wish I had. Find a sample from one of my lessons here.

Content Designer | Freelance, San Mateo, CA | Jan 2008 - PRESENT

• Write for 20+ TED Talks, Fortune 500 companies, TV appearances, and (best of all) my dad’s acceptance speech into the Vacaville Sports Hall of Fame.

• Write and edit for an Amazon best-selling book, which received a cumulative review score of 4.9/5 and positive reviews from a Vice President at Meta, Senior Manager of Global Workplace Experience at Adobe, Director of Employee Experience at LinkedIn, and other people with job titles I’d never heard until they reviewed the book.

Digital Content Creator | AJ+, Washington, D.C. | Sep 2017 - Jan 2024

• Wrote, produced, and balanced about 30 other hats for a video series, resulting in organic subscriber growth from 0 to 331,348 in 11 months. Found some more cool hats to wear.

• Won a bunch of awards cough, cough, Daytime Emmy Award, cough.

• Fully produced 10+ minute videos weekly. Deadlines and coffee are sacred.

General Writer | Accenture (servicing Google), San Jose, CA | Oct 2022 - Aug 2023

• Humor, technical docs, poetry, etiquette for dinner parties thrown by slugs—you name it. I wrote it all for more than 1 billion Google users, leading to 32.5% increase in user satisfaction.

• Trained AI to write better jokes. So if Google’s AI writes a joke you like, that was me. If it writes a joke that sucks, that was one of the other trainers.

Headline Writer | The Onion (Onion Gamers Network), Chicago, IL | Oct 2020 - Jul 2022

• BREAKING: Comedy Writer Develops Black Lung From Mining So Much Gold

Words With Friends Live (Game Show) Writer | Zynga, San Francisco, CA | Dec 2017 - May 2019

• Created spelling-related trivia that’s fun and funny for more than just librarians.

• Wrote for guests like Garth Brooks while resisting the urge to make a “Thunder Rolls” pun.

Head Writer, Editor in Chief, and Curator | eBaum's World [sic], San Francisco, CA | Oct 2012 - Nov 2015

• Doubled monthly unique users from 10.1 million to 20 million over 1-year period. Memes went viral because of this surprising resurgence in popularity.