Nick Flaherty

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Silicon Strategies (S2)

S2, based in San Mateo, California, is aimed at a circulation of XX 000 managers in technology companies.

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Electronics Times

Electronics Times is a weekly newspaper with a circulation of 30,000 and a readership of 100,000 engineers and technical management in the UK and Ireland.

Features Editor

• I manage a team of 8 in-house staff, to produce features each week for the issue, and editing and writing features on all areas of the electronics industry. I have built up, manage and commission a team of 10 freelancers, and I manage a budget of £15 000 a year. The features cover the whole range of industry topics, from new technologies and interviews with key figures, through market analysis and details of a new technology or device to distribution and manufacturing.
• I develop the flatplan each week with the production editor, work with the art editor and chief sub on the design and layout, and proof the final pages.
• I edit the news section of the paper to cover for the News Editor.

Components Editor

• I research and write exclusive news and feature stories on the latest developments in components for computers such as microprocessors, video chips and memories, following the market leaders and the niche players, interviewing their management and engineers. I also cover the computer and consumer equipment markets and technology developments.
• I report from conferences and companies around the world, often to daily deadlines.

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Telecoms & Features Editor

• Researching and writing exclusive news and feature stories on wired and wireless telecoms, datacoms, virtual reality and the information superhighway, as well as on digital broadcasting, publishing and interactive issues, covering the technologies, the players and their strategies.
• Re-directed the editorial policy of the newspaper to cover interactive issues such as video on demand and the Internet by showing the relevance to engineers and their markets. This is an increasingly important role that has become a major part of the paper's coverage as a result of my coverage.
• Conceiving, organising and commissioning the monthly advertising-led Special Features into particular areas such as computers, future technologies and contract manufacturing, as well as commissioning the front cover for the feature, until handing over to a newly employed Special Features editor.

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Electronic Engineering

Electronic Engineering is a technical monthly magazine for practising engineers, covering 20 000 engineers in the UK and Ireland.

Special Features and Supplements Editor

• Solely responsible for editing the special features section of the magazine each month, commissioning in-depth 5 page technical articles and one page product technology briefings from engineers and academics in the electronics industry.
• Edited, researched, commissioned and wrote a special supplement from Japan
• Interviewed by BBC Southeast news about my report on technology that could prevent a disaster such as the Marchioness, using infra-red cameras on the Thames. I organised this without a budget, with help from the Port Authority and a company in Hastings. The BBC showed a video of the images taken by the camera on the trip down the Thames. My report was used in evidence to the coroner at the second inquest on the accident.
• Responsible for the ideas for the front cover for EE, and negotiating the sponsorship from companies. Working with the advertising manager on markets and opportunities.
• Deputised for the editor, Ron Neale, at events.
• Reported from conferences around the world.

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Training

Law for journalists, feature editing, advanced feature writing, news writing, financial reporting, Quark Express and Lasermaker layout, Word word processor, PC and Apple Mac computers and operating systems, self-taught Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Morgan Grampian Training Scheme

Sep'89 - Sep'90

• The Engineer
  • reporter - covered general engineering;
  • Sub-editor - editing news and feature copy and writing headlines.
• Electronics Times
  • reporter
  • sub-editor
• Process Engineering
  • Assistant Editor - covering environmental issues, safety, electronics

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Previous Employment

• ICI Wilton Project course - in the multimedia laboratory testing different materials for video printing; testing the physical properties of those materials
• Bancoft Camp for mentally handicapped adults and children - two summers at the camp, first with Camp America as a Camp Counsellor, then with my own funding as a Residential Instructor. Working with men aged 21 to 70 with mental handicaps and learning disabilities, soley responsible for managing their intellectual, emotional and behavioural development programmes and a team of five counsellors. Assisted with the education programme at the Camp.

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Web Work

• Dept of Trade and Industry
  • Think Digital primer
• Digitronics Conference pages, Miller Freeman
• dotelectronics, Web version of Electronics Times
• Proposals for electronic publishing at Miller Freeman
  I am currently involved with the development of plans for electronic publishing in the company as a result of submitting both editorial and business proposals to put the newspaper on CD-ROM and on the InternetÕs World Wide Web. These proposals use the different merits of each medium to full effect in both arenas for both editorial and business advantages.

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Other Freelance

Writing

• Cable Business magazine - articles on telecoms switch technologies, including a comparison of different technlogies and a profile of Oracle corporation.
• DTI Think Digital primer - a description of basic electronics technology that assumes no prior knowledge for a Web page that I built for the Department of Trade and Industry.

• Broadcast - commenting on technology such as Intel's Pentium Pro processor in interviews
  • TV
    • BBC Newsroom SoutheastTechnology to prevent the Marchioness disaster on the River Thames, including footage of the video I took on the river
    • BBC MidlandsCommenting on new display technologies
  • Radio
    • World Service/Radio Five Live - Commenting on the launch of the Pentium Pro
    • BBC Ulster - Sean Rafferty programme, commenting on a new scheme to have Internet kiosks in bus and railway stations in London for virtual shopping
• Conferences
  • Digitronics, chairman and organiser, April 1996
    I am the chairman and organiser of the Digitronics conference for Miller Freeman this year in Birmingham, specifying and managing technical papers from industry and academics on all areas of electronic technology from around the world.
  • FPGA and PLD Day, organised by Miller Freeman: conference session chairman for the latest re-programmable electronics technologies
  • Video on Demand, keynote speaker, CommEd
    I presented the keynote overview at the CommEd conference on Video On Demand last year, covering the commercial and technology issues and players.

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Referees

Please ask before contacting:
John Walko, Editor, Electronics Times, Miller Freeman House, 30 Calderwood St, London SE18 6QH

Ron Neale, Editor, Electronic Engineering, Miller Freeman House, 30 Calderwood St, London SE18 6QH