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Phil is a writer, editor and content lead. He built his career on technology, but in 2008 he began a biweekly personal spirituality column at Busted Halo, and later took on the editorial production work for that site. Phil is Assistant Coordinator for the New York City chapter of Contemplative Outreach, which promotes Centering Prayer, his meditation practice for over 15 years. He leads the Monday night Centering Prayer group at St. Ignatius on 84th St. and Park Avenue. Phil has just begun to offer his services as a spiritual director, something he has been doing informally for years. The opportunity to accompany others on their spiritual journeys, helping a bit along the way, occasionally seeing the light go on in another’s eyes, is a gift beyond measure. Phil is a registered member of Spiritual Directors International.
Phil was Content Director for non-profit Housing Works, where he led a total redesign project for the main corporate site and launched several other sites. He was a contributing editor for distance learning trade publication Corporate Universities International, and has edited and written web content for clients including Citibank, GTE and Human Factors International.
Phil has been a leading technology expert for two decades. He was a founding member of the PC Labs at PC Magazine (now ZD Labs) and Technology Editor at leading trade-only publication Computer Reseller News. Phil was a principal author of the first edition of the Microsoft Computer Dictionary and wrote the landmark 1989 PC Magazine cover article about the Macintosh interface. He wrote the Mac and Tomorrow’s Technology columns at CRN and has edited or written hundreds of tech help articles, comparative reviews and columns. Phil was a Contributing Editor at Computer Shopper, and has also written for InternetWeek, PC Computing, PC Sources, and Computer Retail Week. Before his editorial work, he was a programmer, IT Manager and QA Manager.
Phil was Director of Product Design at digital radio company Clickradio, one of the longer-lasting dot-com ventures. Click used a client-server model with a local cache to deliver high-quality digital radio to computer users. It was preinstalled on Gateway machines and the company was growing rapidly when the bottom of the market fell out.
Phil also revived his DJing skills that had laid dorment since his teens and programmed Click’s downtempo station, an eclectic format that featured non-dance electronic music, primarily trip hop with some acid jazz, exotica, singer/songwriter, neo-psychedelic, and alternative hip-hop.
For the first half of the 90s, Phil owned a consulting firm in Maine called Mindful Technology providing general technical consulting with a focus on ergonomics. A notable exception to Phil’s tech focus has been an involvement in politics. In the early 90s, he wrote a column called The Radical Middle, about post-partisan bioregionalist politics. He was national Secretary for the Green Party Organizing Committee for the life of that group. Phil was on the statewide team for Brown for President in Maine — the first of two states Brown won. He was Maine’s DSC Platform Chair, a 1992 national delegate, and a member of the DNC Rules Committee. In that year, he also worked on the successful first campaign (for State Senate) that launched the political career of Chellie Pingree, who went on to be majority leader of the Maine Senate, president of Common Cause, and in 2008 was elected to Congress. Phil has also participated in local government, sitting on the Recycling Board in Huntington, Long Island, and the Zoning Board in Morrill, Maine. More recently, Phil researched and wrote materials for Marianne Williamson’s Department Of Peace initiative.
Phil is a Final Cut editor and digital videographer. He shot and edited a 15-minute profile of spoken word artist Celena Glenn and created the video component of King Missile’s multimedia presentation “The Fish Is Not Meant to Symbolize”, part of HERE’s curated series The American Living Room 2002. Phil is the editor of Electra Elf 3 by Nick Zedd.
Phil writes his column, edits, provides spiritual direction and manages content from his bases in NYC and Woodstock.
Contact me if you want talk about spiritual direction, editorial or writing work.
