User:Jasmit53

I am a fledgling fiction writer and sometime non-fiction writer, about to become a banker after may years of writing websites, newsletters, and the like for companies, higher education institutions, and technology-oriented organizatios, including a biotechnology research center in the Capital Region of NY and a cancer researcher in Texas (for whom I am trying to update his page but have a Conflict of Interest -- more about that below).

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I edited the first editions of the Consumers Union Travel Buyer's Guide (1991 and 1992 editions). Of interest is that this was right on the eve of the World Wide Web's arrival, all of the considerable data collection and fact-checking was done by fax from my little home office in Milford, NH.

I then created and produced for several years a custom-published transatlantic newsletter for Acxiom Corporation, one of the early purveyors of large-scale data, obtained from the big three credit bureaus and overlaid with psycho-graphic and purchasing behavior data. This was the age when direct marketing -- done heretofore primarily by publishers, not-for-profit fundraisers, and catalog retailers -- was expanding into the age of database-driven marketing. with networks of computers able to handle large-scale data (what w would now call Big Data), were eager to increase share of market by capturing and retaining customers. I wrote numerous articles on the burgeoning technologies ad practices involved, and then co-authored a book in 1993 called Customer Bonding: Pathways to Customer Loyalty. I'm no longer on the cutting edge of marketing technologies.

For my first Wikipedia effort, I have a conflict of interest. I began updating the Wiki page of Dr. Ronald DePinho. I am currently learning how to work with talk pages and requests to editor to ask for consensus on further changes and then request edits to the page.

I have other pages that I hope to create in the future, for which I will not have any conflict of interest.