Meet Doug

I write for a living. But I have a million different interests. I volunteer for search and rescue in the Grand Canyon, renovate vintage Airstream trailers, and love to read, cook, and bicycle.

Work highlights

Multiple Microsoft projects, covering everything from Windows 11 to Microsoft Azure to machine learning and natural-language processing. Blogs, articles, decks – just about anything you can name. (2010-present)

Contributor to Amazon web site Amazon.science. These articles focus on technology that improves the experience for Amazon customers. (2020-22)

Writer for Microsoft’s IT Showcase, telling stories about how Microsoft uses its own IT to improve customer operations.( 2019-2021)

Content consultant for Accolade, a company that advises corporate clients on how to help employees make the best use of their healthcare benefits. This is, alas, Covid-19-related. (2020)

Lead blogger for Microsoft’s quantum computing team. It’s all about the qubits and the topology…just don’t ask me why. This is deep stuff. (2018-2020)

Content lead for Alaska Airlines, creating materials in support of integration with Virgin Airways. (2018)

Lead content creator on two Microsoft accounts, one for Microsoft Consulting, the other for a new Windows 10 Internet of Things team. Blogs, messaging, marketing docs, etc. (2017-2019)

Content lead for T-Mobile, the Un-carrier. Worked with internal HR team to tell stories about how T-Mobile recruits people, described key HR initiatives, and worked with senior leadership team to ensure that communications with employees have the right tone and voice. (2017)

Executive speechwriter for the Worldwide Public Sector division of Microsoft. I worked with a corporate vice president to craft speeches, write Yammer posts, create email messages, and more. Worldwide Public Sector is responsible for key industry customers in health, education, government, and public safety/national security. (2016)

Senior editor for Microsoft News Center.

Correspondent for The Economist, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Wired, many others.