: About Me

I have a background in Library and Information Science with a specialty in Competitive Intelligence.

I've been a practicing intelligence provider, researcher and strategy consultant for the last ten years or so, mainly focused on the technology industry but recently delving into healthcare insurance - and what an interesting time to do so (politically speaking)!

I'm enjoying learning about the challenges this industry faces from the inside out, and wrapping my head around what could/should/might happen next.

I also write, having been commissioned to co-author a trivia book on Washington State, and blogging about my personal interests.

My blog is called Petty Vices:
http://pettyvices.typepad.com.

My Professional & Personal Areas of Expertise & Interests:
Secondary & Syndicated Researcher; Competitive Intelligence (CI); Strategy Planning; M&A Research; Competitor Profiling; Market Opportunity Assessments; Vendor Contract Management & Negotiations; Strategic Analysis; Market Intelligence; Search; Taxonomies; Consultant; Analyst; Subject Matter Expert (SME) across variety of areas, including: Business; Content Management, Knowledge Management; Technology; Social Media; Healthcare; Health; Care Facilitation; and Wellness.

I'm also a Librarian, Writer, Craftster, Artisan, Knitter, and Sewer.

My interests include: Reading, Journaling, Mixed Media Collage, Papercrafts, Fine Art, Film, Fashion, Photography, Pets, Dogs, Yoga, Entertainment, Entertaining, Dining, Local Food, Upcycling, Cooking, Family & Friends, Wine, Restaurants, Travel, Web 2.0, Technology, and the Internet.

My passion is ...

Being creative.

I know too much about ...

I don't believe in knowing too much. Perhaps people "think" they know more than they do, but one can't know too "much."

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything I set my mind to.

My childhood ambition ...

Be a writer or a teacher or an artist.

Why I write ...

I like to think of it as a conversation I'm having with the universe.

My first job ...

Working at my Dad's restaurant at 13.

My inspiration ...

Life!

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Boston has long been known as a learning mecca, housing over a quarter million students at any given time and having premier universities throughout the city - Boston University, Boston College and Northwestern to name but a small sample. Furthermore, across the Charles River from Boston proper lies Cambridge, Massachusetts (named as an homage to the U.K.'s University of Cambridge), which, like its namesake, has produced some of the world's finest minds from its star institutions. The two most famous are, of course, Harvard and MIT. The economic impact just MIT graduates have made on the w...

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