I'm a life-long resident of the Greater Boston area, veteran of the communications business and part-time photographer. First of all though, I'm a dad -- and a proud one at that. I'm married and thoroughly enjoy raising my two young daughters. My friends call me the big guy and on the social web, you'll find me just about anywhere under the handle BigGuyD.

I started my professional career as a journalist for the Boston Globe covering many topics throughout my four years with the paper. I also helped launch Boston.com during the early, emerging days of online news media.

After the Globe, I entered the public relations and marketing world, working for Suffolk University for a couple of years (where I met my wife). While at Suffolk, I was responsible for media relations, marketing and web design (where I helped launched and managed the school's online community for alumni).

About three years after the Suffolk gig, I worked for a New England-based PR firm, working on a variety of technology, consumer and business to business accounts. This was during the dot-com era of PR, where the work load was heavy on the media relations side and technology product launches.

In 2004, I took a four year leave of absence from the agency world and went to work for Malden Catholic High School, a leading college prep school located just north of Boston. For a small school just north of Boston, MC, as it's known, has produced a number of alumni that are leading businessmen, politicians and professional athletes (among a laundry list of alumni accolades). At MC, I was responsible for re-engineering the 75 year-old brand; media relations; and creative design, which included develop, launching and managing the online community for alumni.

After MC, I went to work for the MSLGROUP, the flagship PR and marketing agency of the Publicis Group. I worked for the agency for four years and was the vice president, director of digital communications for the Boston office. I was responsible for managing corporate PR account programs and leading all of the social media and creative programs.

Currently, I'm the director of social media strategy at One to One Interactive, a one of the first next generation digital marketing agencies that builds informed and creative customer strategies on the belief that digital media and its ability to provide targeted, permission based, one-to-one dialogues, represent the cornerstone of marketing in the future.

Elsewhere on the social web, I'm the co-founder and one of the  "daddy" bloggers over at Every Other Thursday; the executive editor for Technorati; and, blogger for the very popular Blogcritics.org. In all my spare time (wink, wink), I run a fairly successful photography business, shooting weddings and family events.

For those what wish to pitch me, please note that I will write about topics relating to family, kids, technology, PR/communications, social media and photography. I prefer pitches via email or a heads-up via Twitter.

Thanks again for visiting.