About our staff
Editorial Director
Brian Livingston, editorial director of WindowsSecrets.com, is the co-author of
Windows Vista Secrets,
Windows Me Secrets,
and nine other books. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 6th annual
Internet Content Summit in New York City on May 8, 2006.
Editor-at-Large
Fred Langa was editor of Byte Magazine (1987 to 1991) and editorial director of CMP Media
(1991 to 1996), overseeing Windows Magazine and others. He edited the LangaList e-mail newsletter from 1997 to 2006, when it merged with
Windows Secrets.
Associate Editor
Scott Dunn has been a contributing editor of PC World since 1992 and currently writes for the magazine's Here's How section. He is the co-author of
101 Windows Tips & Tricks (Peachpit) with Jesse Berst and Charles Bermant.
Research Director
Vickie Stevens is the developer of Windows Secrets' WinFind search engine and writes the Reviews Overviews section of the site. She
received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from City University in 2003. She previously worked at Virginia Mason
Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
Program Director
Brent Scheffler develops code for the WindowsSecrets.com Web server and maintains our Exchange mail server. He is a founder of the Fremont
Linux Users Group in Seattle and a recent graduate of Humboldt State University.
Contributing Editors
Susan Bradley is a Small Business Server and Security MVP — Most Valuable Professional — a title awarded by Microsoft to independent experts who do not work for the company. She's also a partner in a California CPA firm.
Mark Joseph Edwards is a senior contributing editor of Windows IT Pro Magazine and regularly writes for its Security Matters blog. He's a network engineer, freelance writer, and the author of Internet Security with Windows NT.
Woody Leonhard writes books about Windows and Office. His latest works — Windows Vista All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies and Windows Vista Timesaving Techniques For Dummies — explore what you need to know about Vista in a way that won't put you to sleep. He and Ed Bott also wrote the encyclopedic Special Edition Using Office 2007.
Ryan Russell is quality assurance manager at BigFix Inc., a configuration management company.
He moderated the vuln-dev mailing list for three years under the alias "Blue Boar."
He was the lead author of Hack-Proofing Your Network, 2nd Ed., and the technical editor of the
Stealing the Network book series.
