• Writes copy for corporate web sites and marketing materials.
• Writes articles about technology and the automotive industry for The Detroit News. This involves researching potential profile companies, interacting with business editor to get permission to write story, setting up interviews with company officials and outside analysts, and writing article.
• Blogged for PVR Wire (pvrwire.com), which covers TiVo and other personal video recorders, and other Web sites. Stays up on latest technology industry news on a daily basis.
• Covered business, technology and other areas for MSNBC.com, Home Office Computing, Detroit Free Press, The Grand Rapids Press and many other online and print publications. Researched topics, interviewed sources and wrote articles.
• Researched and wrote several profiles on celebrities-turned-entrepreneurs for The Wall Street Journal. Involved persistence, as many celebrities don’t want to be interviewed.
• Use Dreamweaver and HTML to update my personal Web site with newest articles and other writings.

• Wireless All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies (Wiley, September 2004)
• How to Do Everything with Your TiVo (McGraw-Hill, July 2004)
• Microsoft OneNote 2003 for Windows Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press, 2003)
• Teach Yourself Visually Wireless Networking (Wiley, 2003)

Skills used during book-writing process:
• Research subjects to create detailed book proposal and table of contents before starting book.
• Perform research on competing books and potential buyer market.
• Set up and configured home-networking equipment for two networking books.
• Quickly learned Microsoft OneNote 2003 software for book on same topic.
• Set up, configured and used TiVo devices for TiVo book.
Write books in Microsoft Word 2003.
• Create all computer-screen captures for books using SnagIt screen-capture software.
• Use FTP Voyager to upload completed content to publishers’ ftp sites.
• Use Dreamweaver and HTML to update my personal Web site (www.toddcarter.com) when books are completed.

• Researched and wrote market, regulatory and internal information necessary to help MCI enter the local telephone market.
• Worked with other MCI departments across the United States to gather research.
• Compiled research into reports for executives.
• Helped distribute research and other information within department and to other departments, either via paper, e-mail or an internal Web site I oversaw.
• Managed internal Web site and intranet database projects related to MCI's local market entry efforts.
• Oversaw programmers and designers related to the internal Web site.
• Used proprietary content-management system to publish information to intranet Web site.
• Used HTML during publishing process.
• Traveled to various MCI facilities to train employees on use of new databases for project related to entry into local phone market.

Intern
• Worked within Political Unit, researching 1988 presidential candidates.
• Performed various duties within newsroom, including assisting writers, and operating anchor camera and teleprompter.