Samples

The links below will connect you to a variety of writing samples and news clippings that represent the breadth and depth of my experience in writing and strategic communications. If you are interested in a type of work you can't find here, please email a specific request—I can provide many other examples, including documents and business services I cannot post on this Web site such as crisis communication strategies, competitive intelligence analyses, internal communications campaigns, and business plans.

Writing

• A column from Kansas Business Review, on competition in the utility industry
• An essay on what business people can learn from politicians
• A public relations tip from a PR agency's internal newsletter
• AMD Future Vision: 64-Bits or Bust, ghost-written for AMD's senior vice president.
• The Shape of Computers to Come, ghost-written for AMD's senior vice president.
• An article about Silicon-on-Insulator microprocessor technology ghost-written for AMD's chief scientist
• An executive editorial on supply and demand chain management for a trade publication
• Another executive editorial on collaboration in the electronics distribution industry
• A contributed article on developing the wireless broadband infrastructure
• A case study on systems integration for an online medical information provider
• A speech delivered at Computex Taiwan 2002 by three executives of Advanced Micro Devices.
• A newsletter article about building power supplies for employees and customers of a leading electronics distributor
• A satellite television industry forecast for the leading trade magazine
• The short story "Carpe dime," in which I relate how I learned the lessons of life in just one day

Strategic communication consulting

• A one-year strategic communications plan that integrates media, investor, analyst, government, and community relations for a major health care software company
• A plan for maximizing the value of and attention to a white paper on eBusiness strategies in the electronics distribution industry
• A media plan for a technology start-up providing email marketing applications

Public affairs, media relations, and marketing

• The news release announcing the corporate launch of 212 Studios
• A news release announcing the implementation of a new information technology solution at the nation's leading emergency services hospital
• AARP memo opposing elimination of energy efficiency building standards
• Legislative testimony opposing elimination of energy efficiency building standards
• A brochure marketing the release of a suite of electronic and online survey and analysis tools
• The announcement of an endorsement by the Kansas Governor of a Kansas City-area Congressional candidate
• A news release announcing a significant venture capital investment in Tonic Software
• A one-page profile of WSNet, the leading business-to-business (B2B) wholesale provider of direct-to-home (DTH) digital video programming

Business services

• Executive briefing for a briefing with a technology industry analyst
• Executive script for a media and industry analyst conference call on a venture capital investment

News clips (copyrights held by the respective publications)

• Commentary on big box stores, the environment, and keeping Austin weird, broadcast on KUT on 11 November 2003
• Austin Business Journal: Rewriting the book on publishing
• InfoWorld: Partners line up for AMD's Opteron launch
• CNET: AMD paints Opteron chips by the numbers
• "David Schlosser, an extremely nice PR representative from AMD ...."
• The New York Times, on SBC's merger with Ameritech
• The Chicago Tribune, on new long distance fees
• CNET News.com, on deployment of broadband technologies
• The Wall Street Journal, on the Kansas Congressional campaign
• The London Daily Telegraph, on the Kansas Congressional campaign
• The Kansas City Star profile of US Congressional candidate Greg Musil
• The New York Times, on the Kansas Congressional campaign
• The San Jose Mercury News, on telecommunications competition
• The Wall Street Journal's forum on improving online retail