Bio
My professional life, in a nutshell, via my current bio on TelephonyOnline.com
Rich Karpinski is executive editor-features for Telephony. Rich began his career at Telephony almost two decades ago — holding positions as assistant editor, news director and technical editor — before returning to the staff in 2007. He has held a variety of reporting and editing positions in the technology press, including stints at Interactive Age, NetGuide, Communications Week, InternetWeek and Network Computing. In addition to his telecom/networking industry experience, Rich has covered the evolution of Internet industry since the appearance of the first Web browser, including publishing one of the first books on advanced Web technologies, Beyond HTML, published by Osbourne/McGraw Hill.
Personal (just a bit): I’m married, two daughters, ages 11 and 15, spend a lot of time on softball fields (for my kids, not me), am a semi-retired pick-up basketball player, enjoy reading, music (I saw the Replacements in 85 at Mabel’s in Champaign, Ill., how about you?), am a fan of the Chicago Bulls, MMA/UFC and poker, online and off. I don’t do Facebook (my kid would kill me and my wife think I was skeevy) so you can’t friend me.