Pete has worked on both sides of the editorial fence as a journalist and public relations strategist.<ul><li>Wrote and edited custom print and electronic publications.</li><li>Developed content strategies and future campaigns for clients.</li><li>Completed contract editor assignments for B2B and B2C tech publications.</li><li>Clients: AEVI, Cisco, Dell, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware.</li></ul>

Content Creator & Strategist

<ul><li>Wrote about business technology and IT management issues.</li><li>Produced white papers, magazine articles, newsletters, blogs and ghostwrote executive byline viewpoints.</li></ul>

Writer

AEVI International GmbH is a company that develops an ecosystem and marketplace for payments and value-added services.&nbsp;<ul><li>Contributed heavily to enterprise and tech publications.</li><li>Ghostwrote blog posts as well as news articles published on their online website.</li><li>Edited website copy to maximize click-through-rate conversion rates.</li><li>Researched in competitive positioning and message development to improve current and future campaigns.</li></ul>

Consultant

Zscaler is a global cloud-based information security company specializing in advanced persistent threat, data loss prevention, SSL inspection and next generation firewall.<ul><li>Covered a wide range of content creation as well as PR development.</li><li>Ghostwrote executive bylines.</li><li>Revised competitive "battle cards" and communicated with the team to improve and adjust campaigns.</li><li>Developed partner solution brochures and web content.</li></ul>

SimplyDirect offers account-based marketing services to B2B technology clients.<ul><li>Developed demand generation surveys for clients and created white papers from results.</li><li>Conducted research, surveys, and interviews to gain understanding of business and hence communicate with various teams to adjust business strategies.</li><li>Detected issues through UI and UX testing as well as analyzing data and investigated ways to resolve them.</li><li>Compiled and came up with performance reports.</li></ul>

Verifone is a global company that provides technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale.&nbsp;<ul><li>Handled content creation and analyzed content performance.</li><li>Managed the primary media and analyst relations contact.</li><li>Developed content for press releases, media kits, and white papers.</li><li>Ghostwrote for executive bylines and other news and enterprise content.</li></ul>

Media Relations Consultant

<ul><li>Managed all assignment and editing of original content.</li><li>Selected licensed content for "webzine".</li><li>Oversaw content published in subscription newsletters for customers of Microsoft ERP business suites.</li></ul>

Editor

<ul><li>Managed all assignment and editing of articles.</li><li>Wrote copy and copyedited all content in quarterly publications for executive customers at companies using Microsoft business products.</li></ul>

Executive Editor

Solidus Networks, Inc., doing business as Pay By Touch, provides biometric authentication, personalized marketing, and payment solutions.<ul><li>Communicated actively with the media and PR team on campaigns.</li><li>Developed a media and analyst relations program.</li><li>Worked on ensuring a smooth relaunch of Solidus Networks as Pay By Touch.</li></ul>

Lois Paul &amp; Partners (LPP) is a Boston PR agency focusing on healthcare and technology public relations.<ul><li>Oversaw multiple areas of LLP and led programs.</li><li>Developed client strategic consulting, team operations management of high-tech specialty media relations agencies.</li><li>Managed Silicon Valley based operations with additional temporary responsibility for Austin operation.</li><li>Led the complete operation of the agency in accordance with the strategic plans.</li><li>Directly communicated with clients, including Lotus, Intel, Nortel, Hypercom, Verifone, and Sybase.</li></ul>

Senior Vice President

<ul><li>Contributed to the content vetting and campaign releases.</li><li>Edited all content for the monthly publication for business users of Lotus spreadsheet and other productivity tools.</li><li>Assisted merger of publication into PC World.</li></ul>

Editor-in-Chief

Computerworld leads with analysis of news, transformational technologies and trends, providing peer-based content with real-world strategies for implementing technology to drive business results.<ul><li>Led a team of over 40 members at premier enterprise's, Information Technology, a weekly publication.</li><li>Spearheaded the directions of teams over three locations.</li><li>Edited news articles and other contents published by the enterprise.</li><li>Created content for the weekly publications covering themes from news to technology and startups.</li></ul>

Reporter & News Editor

Wrote a tech news article covering how security services vendor Proofpoint had recently claimed to have detected the first IoT-based cyber attack involving “more than 750,000 malicious email communications coming from more than 100,000 everyday consumer gadgets such as home-networking routers, connected multi-media centers, televisions and at least one refrigerator that had been compromised and used as a platform to launch attacks.”

Internet of Overwhelming Things

Pete Bartolik

Discussed what software license enterprises should be paying for to manage the path to their future.

Taking Control of Your Software Licenses in the Cloud Era

Discussed how competing visions are foreseeing different paths to next-generation networks.

Are Data Centers Going Soft?

Digital Imperative: Unifying Hybrid Cloud Management

Crafted a sponsored news article covering network firewalls developed by BlueCat.

Beyond the Firewall - Different Rules for East-West Traffic

To Deal With Zettabytes Efficiently, We Need Smarter IoT

Created a news article covering the struggle data center networks are facing in order to adapt to today’s workloads as well as how they will be solving it in the future.

Against All Odds

Developed a questions-and-answers article featuring Rob Burkart, who is from a sales and operational background into the CIO role at InnerWorkings, on how businesses who depend heavily on data have to ensure that the roles of IT and other functional organizations have to be closely aligned.

Using Data to Globalize Marketing Execution

Created a news article touching on the duality of technology; how it can easily deploy user-friendly solutions, but there is also a need for proper education on security policing with the increasing threat of cyber attacks.

To Err Is Human: Solving Today's Real Cyber Security Challenge

Wrote about how the network news, trend analysis, product testing, and the industry's most important blogs, all collected at the most popular network watering hole on the Internet.

The Next SDN Leap: Simplified, Intelligent, and Ultra-broadband

VP of IT Looks for Excellence in Business Improvement

Featured CenturyLink Chief Security Officer R. David (Dave) Mahon on how many companies still don’t have a culture of security that measures up to today’s cybersecurity threats despite widely publicized data breaches in recent years.

Centurylink Security Chief: Tips to Avoid Common Enterprise Cyberthreats

You've Gone DevOps, but What About Your Systems Integrator?

Ditch That Terminal, Grab a Platform

Legal Firm CIO Embraces New Opportunities in the Digital Era

Developed a sponsored news article about the trials tech companies face in hiring top IT talents after committing to digital transformation.

Take an Artful Approach to Attracting and Retaining Talent

Visas QIR Mandate: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

On the Inside Looking Out

Not Just a Catch-Phrase

How One CIO Is Successfully Scaling IT Services

English (American)

Pete Bartolik is a seasoned technology editor with over ten years of experience writing for and editing high-tech customer publications including AEVI, Cisco, Dell, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware. He specialized in authoring white papers, sponsored content, editorial news as well as copy editing B2B articles. At Computerworld, Pete spearheaded the directions of teams over three locations and created content for the weekly publications covering themes from news to technology and startups.

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Internet of Overwhelming Things

Taking Control of Your Software Licenses in the Cloud Era

Are Data Centers Going Soft?

Digital Imperative: Unifying Hybrid Cloud Management

Beyond the Firewall - Different Rules for East-West Traffic

To Deal With Zettabytes Efficiently, We Need Smarter IoT

Internet of Overwhelming Things

Taking Control of Your Software Licenses in the Cloud Era

Are Data Centers Going Soft?

Digital Imperative: Unifying Hybrid Cloud Management

Beyond the Firewall - Different Rules for East-West Traffic

To Deal With Zettabytes Efficiently, We Need Smarter IoT