Michael L. Fiegel
Seattle, WA 98125
aeon@aeforge.com

Profile
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I have been a professional writer for over 15 years, with experience in radio
and catalog copywriting, news editing, technical writing and creative writing of
print and electronic games. I have over a decade of experience as a web
designer, layout artist and game designer. I am an intuitive thinker with
creativity and technical capability who can follow a project through its entire
life cycle, from conception to design to distribution.

Experience
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Writer/Designer, 
DBA aethereal FORGE - San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA
'92-Present
I have written and designed various websites, books and games as a freelancer,
including: Iconoclast, an award-winning online text-based game; and Ninja
Burger, licensed by Steve Jackson Games as a card game and published as a book
by Kensington/Citadel. I have provided writing and game design services for
clients including: Adobe; Dog Soul Publishing (Writer of the Baba Yaga Setting, 
2006 ENnie Award winner for Best Electronic Book); MTV (AddictingGames.com
copywriting and editing); Paizo (Writer for Dragon); Fox/IGN (Tech Writer);
Khepera (Writer/Editor for Godsend Agenda); R. Talsorian (Editor/Writer);
RPG.net (Columns Editor, '02-'05); Spectre Press (Writer/Designer of Rune
Stryders); and Turpitude Design (Undisclosed MMO and Casual game projects). I 
have written gaming articles and reviews for The Escapist, MMORPG.com, RPG.net, 
RPGNow, The Silven Trumpeter and Slashdot.

Creative Content Designer, 
Perpetual Entertainment - San Francisco, CA
'07
I designed, wrote and implemented quests for the Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising
MMORPG, and was responsible for the central story arc. I tracked, tested and
fixed bugs with QA. I wrote, edited and maintained pages on a Design group wiki.
I wrote dialogue for voiceovers and cinematics, and attended recording sessions.
I edited and wrote material for the game's user guide and customer-facing
website.

Technical Writer, 
Tello Corporation - Campbell, CA
'05-'06
I worked with the Engineering, Development and Marketing departments to create
user documentation for a Voice-Over-IP and Instant Messaging Client. I
maintained, designed and developed an internal wiki and a customer-facing
website. I created and maintained a set of document standards and templates.

Designer, 
Karen Brown's Guides - San Mateo, CA
'02-'05
I designed and laid out 17 annual travel guides, as well as the associated PDF,
CD-ROM and web-based content. I created and updated on an annual basis all maps,
graphics and other materials for the print guides and website. I wrote and
edited marketing material for email campaigns and print advertisements.

Technical Writer, 
Various (UltraDNS, Softbook Press, Onyx) - San Mateo, CA
'00-'01
I wrote technical documentation, release notes, help files and marketing
documents for several companies, working with both Engineering and Marketing
organizations. I developed and maintained associated documentation repositories
and intranets. I assisted in the design of company websites and graphics.

Head Copywriter, 
AnotherUniverse.com - Manassas, VA
'99-'00
I wrote copy for monthly and quarterly catalogs devoted to comic books, games
and collectibles, assisted in the layout and graphic design of those catalogs,
and edited copy for web-based catalog content. I managed a junior copywriter. I
composed and edited monthly print ads, emails and direct mail pieces.

Creative Director, 
Sinclair Broadcasting - Buffalo, NY
'97-'99
I oversaw the Creative Services division, providing web, print and broadcast
material for six radio stations including WKSE 98.5 and WGR 55. I wrote,
edited and helped produce radio advertising, and assisted in trafficking radio
ads. I redesigned, updated and maintained websites for two of the six radio
stations.

Assistant Editor, 
The RAMA Group - Buffalo, NY
'95-'97
I wrote and edited feature and news stories for, and assisted in the weekly
layout of, 16 editions of Metro Community News and Metro Weekend. I helped
update and maintain the Metro Weekend website.

Skills
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Adobe Creative Suite, Apache, Aurora Toolset, BBEdit, Bugzilla, CircleMUD, CSS,
CVS, Filemaker, HTML, iWork Suite, Javascript, Jira, MediaWiki, MS Office Suite,
OmniGraffle, Pagemaker, PHP, Prepress, Quark XPress, Radio script format,
Screenplay format, SSI, svn, TBAMud, TWiki, Unix, VBulletin, vi, XML

Education/Associations
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Canisius College, Buffalo, NY ' B.A., English Honors, 1995
Member, Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society
Member, IGDA, International Game Developers Association