Ron Baker

• Ron sold his first article to a national computer magazine around age 15, soon thereafter was the News Editor for the USC student newspaper, then paused his writing career to wander all over the I.T. industry map, eventually running web services for a regional publisher.
• Mostly working only with his wife, Teresa, he built his family's home, employing various IoT technologies for critical, prudent, and unobtrusive automations.
• Ron is trying to reinvent his family's home, economic, and creative lives, augmenting his kids' stubbornly analog childhood with digital tools. Tech, prudent automations, and digital workflows enhance without defining the family's hobby farm/homestead, their freestanding 750-square-foot greenhouse, backyard recording studio, and workshop/video studio.

Experience

Ron's career is a roadmap to the intersection of off-beat home construction, writing, technology, media, and creativity. As a multimedia producer for a large staffing firm in the late nineties, he developed interactive media for national marketing campaigns and served on a small, invitation-only advisory panel for Adobe's Authorware platform. The focus on media continued during his brief ownership of an Atlanta-area media agency, and in 2001 he became the web services manager for Tillman Allen Greer, a metro Atlanta marketing firm. Returning to his writing roots, he later took the position of Managing Editor of Gwinnett Magazine, a regional print and online publication owned by Tillman Allen Greer. Pandemic layoffs led him to refocus on creativity, and he has hand-built his family's home to facilitate creativity in writing, data-oriented product evaluations, and audio engineering centered around his wife's singing talents and his kids' need to make a racket.

Education

Ron studied English at Furman University, then transferred to the University of South Carolina to focus more directly on journalism, completing the coursework in 1993.