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Journalism

The following works are arranged in roughly chronological order. Note: Freelance photography is available on my online gallery. Some of it is commercial, and some is artistic, but the majority of the product was taken for various magazines.

British Chamber of Commerce Magazine (SW China)

How Sichuan is positioned to take advantage of the boom in solar power July 2008

Helping hands: Earthquake relief lends focus to corporate responsibility July 2008

Danwei.org

Paranoia or Prudence: Why Block Chinese direct investment? June, 2008　

Compassion, logistics, and nerves begin to fray in Chengdu May, 2008

European Voice

The EU's Alarmist 'Brain Drain' Numbers Simply Don't Add Up
Time Magazine and The Magic Number

Towards a Transatlantic Diesel Standard
The synchronization of EU and US diesel brings new market opportunities and risks.

Ratings Agency Verdicts 'Help New Members to Reform'
"When he was a Greek MEP,Giorgos Katiforis called the industry a “duopolistic”split between Moody’s and S&P."

Research Flight Fear from New Europe to Old

Lack of EU Investment in Research Leads To Drift in Skills to America
Less than half of the “very high
standard” research proposals submitted to the Commission could be funded.

Europe Still Vies for US Investment
"For every dollar the US invested in India, it invested three in Denmark."

Sarajevo Economy Migrates Away from Non-profit Dependency
"Bosnia has cows, so there's a lot of cow-smuggling across the border."

Larger EU Fueling Black Market Economy
"As a matter of logic and of history, illicit trading links will continue to exist after accession."

Election Eve in Brussels
"There's been no partisan issue. There's been no opposition we could find."

Academic Writing

The following works are some of my favorite papers written for academic audiences. They are arranged in roughly chronological order. Feedback to academics@cuberoof.com is always appreciated.

Research & Analysis

Flying without Succeeding? Assessing the future of the civil aviation manufacturing sector in the People's Republic of China Journal of International Policy Solutions, University of California, San Diego Volume 8 Winter 2008 (author's revised copy).

Skype in 2006: Business Analysis and Strategic Recommendations

E-Ink in 2007: Case Study

Apex Investors: Series B Term Sheet Analysis | Spreadsheet

Does Chinese Direct Investment in the Puget Sound Region Require a Policy Response?

Why is the level of Chinese outbound direct investment in the United States relatively low? (Chinese) 中国为什么在美国直接投资量那么少?

Regulating Chinese outbound direct investment (Chinese) 中国对外直接投资调控制度的分析

Discovering Chinese Integrative Outward Foreign Direct Investment and the Influence of the Chinese State note: June 2006 draft copy. Do not cite without permission.

Legal Management of Chinese Outbound Investment

Nationalism and Collaboration in the Anti-Japanese War 1912-1950 presented to the UW Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Washington in March 2006

Perversities of Consumption in the Globalizing System

Prosody and Pronoun in Shakespearean Verse (undergraduate English thesis)

Book reports and reviews

Failure of Charisma by Wang Shaoguang Considering the political economy of the Cultural Revolution

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond Diamond versus scientific racism

Opium Regimes edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, and Clash of Empires by Lydia Liu

Awakening China by John Fitzgerald

Hygienic Modernity by Ruth Rogaski

The Making of the English Working Class by EP Thomson

The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore, Jr.

Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asia Modern by Prasenjit Duara

Rescuing History from the Nation by Prasenjit Duara

The Age of Empire by Eric Hobsbawm

The Great Divergence by Kenneth Pomeranz

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

Grant Proposals and Business Plans

• Green China Design Business Plan
  A plan to create a sustainable "green roofing" company in Beijing. Finalist in the GSEC competition. (powerpoint presentation, video presentation)
  
• Metaverse Technology (executive summary)
• Federal IT Services
  This proposal was written to win a contract to evaluate and implement a Customs Relationship Management (CRM) software solution at the International Trade Administration.
• USAF Facilities & Program Management
  This proposal requested renewed funding for an existing contract. It involved a lot of work on the look, feel, and navigation. The result was derived from a template I created from scratch. However, much of the content was culled from prior proposals that the client was satisfied with.
• Refugee Children Grant
  The best grant I ever wrote for this agency. This version is abridged and slightly reorganized for easier reading. To navigate I recommend using Microsoft Word's Document Map feature.
• Vocational Training Grant
  This was one of the first grants I wrote. It was also the most successful from an implementation standpoint, as the program has been adopted to help train refugee arrivals state-wide.
• Serbian Judicial Reform Grant
  This was an existing grant I edited on behalf of Chemonics.

Public Relations & Marketing

• ARMA Company Overview
• ARMA Folder (outside fold)
• SecCol Capabilities Page
• Chemonics Press Release: Cocaine Eradication in Colombia
  Chemonics is a large for-profit contractor with USAID. This press release describes their efforts in the Putumayo region of Colombia.
• OMB Watch Press Release
  OMB Watch is an organization that covers the federal Office of Management and Budget. This is a press release I wrote for them as a freelancer. The opinions contained in the press release are entirely those of OMB Watch staff.
• Red Cross Benefit
  This benefit was held shortly after September 11th.
• Promotional Restaurant Article for Taverna Kretekou

Technical Writing (mostly software)

• Sample User Guide (.pdf)
• Sample Release Notes (html)
• Installation Splash Page (using Flash projector- this file is an .exe and may be blocked, so better save it to your hard drive first then run it)
• Administration Guide (PDF document). This document was some 200 plus pages long when I got it. I think it cleaned up nicely, though.
• Rational RequisitePro-XDE Integration
  If this help system does not render properly when viewed online, it may be because your firewall is preventing it from displaying correctly. You can download the help system by saving this zip file to your hard drive and then opening roxi_index.htm in the root directory.
• ClearQuest-RequisitePro Integration
  This is a Help system for an integration wizard I played an integral role in designing. It contains both task-oriented help and GUI reference. To correctly view the system, extract both files from the zip file into a common directory and double click on the CQI.hlp file.
• Usability Test Session Script
  This was a script I wrote to test market our concept for a new integration feature. It has feedback fron internal employees (names changed) and you can generally see the process and direction I took in testing. These sessions were incredibly useful for feature and GUI design. It also assisted us in determining what terminology was the most intuitive.
• Rational RequisitePro Extensibility Interface Documentation
  I maintained this library of COM methods, properties, and constants for developers creating custom RequisitePro interfaces and applications. To correctly view the system, extract both files from the zip file into a common directory and double click on the rpx.hlp file.
• Integrated Use Case Management Help
  This integration document was a precursor to the ReqPro-XDE integration documentation; it described the integration between ReqPro and Rose.