SHARON MACHLIS

I joined Computerworld as a security and government reporter, and later became online news editor and am now online managing editor.

During my tenure, Computerworld.com has won numerous editorial awards, including ASBPE best Web site, MIN best of the Web and the Jesse Neal Award for best Web site (Computerworld swept all three online awards in 2008 in its circulation category).

I was previously a senior editor at Design News, where I won a Jesse Neal certificate of merit for a 10-page cover feature on engineering in the Soviet Union, as well as a Cahners gold medal of excellence for best technical feature; and a reporter, technology columnist and business editor at the Middlesex News, a daily newspaper in Framingham, Mass. While business editor, I was selected as a Davenport Fellow and spent a month at the University of Missouri studying business & financial journalism.

Also at the Middlesex News, I programmed and set up what Wikipedia calls "one of the earliest online transmissions of news from a newspaper to its readers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_the_Computer ). I coded my first public Web site (for a local community group) in November of 1995, and have had a personal blog since 2004.

I code in Perl, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails.