About Me

I am an artist who became an author. Starting out in the oil fields of New Mexico as a roustabout, I ended up graduating from a military academy and studied art and philosophy in college. For many years I was active in the art scenes in Texas & NYC & DC, winning occasional awards for metal & wood sculpture, pen & ink drawings, collages and gouache paintings. I worked as an art director in experimental film and with some modern dance companies, and directed a play at the Brooklyn Museum. Employed at numerous places in NYC, Washington, Texas and North Carolina, I gained considerable experience in corporate operations. In 1971 I began working under the wings of Ann H. Tanners at 42nd & Fifth Avenue, and she taught me all she knew about resumes, having established the first professional resume service in America in the 1940s. Subsequently, I wrote/designed and published The Resume Writer's Handbook, which was sold in two editions internationally by HarperCollinsPublishers for 23 years. In Fall 2006 they released my latest book, Bioblogs: Resumes for the 21st Century, which introduces a new art form for the weary formats of traditional resumes. I am currently at work on a follow-up, Global Bioblogs in Color, and a related book, Creative Character At Work. I also run a remodeling and home restoration business, The Hometooled Co., based on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi.