About Lee
Lee is currently community blogger, editor, and social media specialist at SourceForge.net, and just began serving as an author for Slashdot – both sites owned by Geeknet, Inc. At the company, he served as managing editor and executive editor for Linux.com from March 2003 through December 2008. During that time he also had editorial responsibility for sister sites NewsForge.com, ITManagersJournal.com, and DevChannel.org, all of which were part of parent company. Previously the company was known as SourceForge, Inc., and VA Software, and the editorial division as Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) and Open Source Developers Network (OSDN).
Before joining SourceForge, Lee served as senior technology editor for ZDNet’s Tech Update pages and executive editor of ZDNet’s Business & Technology pages. He assigned and edited all case studies and original reviews for the site. He was also in charge of the editorial content of the Networking and Security pages. Lee wrote weekly columns for Tech Update, BizTech, ZDNet News Commentary, and Anchordesk.com, and managed a staff of seven editors, producers, and artists.
Immediately before coming to ZDNet, Lee served as one of the founding editors of IDG’s ITworld.com.
For more than five years, Lee was technology editor and test center director at Network World. He instituted the current weekly review schedule, supervised two full-time editors, recruited freelance writers, assigned products to be reviewed, and built and managed the in-house test center lab. He wrote frequent reviews, and created the popular Cool Tools column.
Prior to Network World, Lee was editor in chief of Enterprise Networking, a quarterly full-color magazine focused on Banyan VINES. He was responsible for finding freelancers, assigning technical features, editing product reviews and columns, writing editorials, and supervising art and production staff.
In 1990, Lee joined the original staff of Network Computing and helped launch the publication. He served as the magazine’s first reviews editor, and built and managed its East Coast test lab.
Lee’s first editorial job was as manager of Digital Review’s DR Labs, which he accepted after writing freelance reviews for Digital Review for three years. He and his staff were responsible for publishing two multi-page hands-on reviews for the newspaper every week. He managed a staff of five full- and part-time writers, as well as a corps of freelancers. He also wrote a monthly column on application development.
Before becoming an editor and journalist, Lee served as a systems analyst with The Boston Globe for five and a half years.
Lee is also an accomplished freelance travel writer whose features have appeared in major newspapers in the US and Canada.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Brandeis University with a concentration in theatre arts. During college he studied at the British and European Studies Group in London (BESGL). He also received a Master of Arts (M.A.) in journalism from Northeastern University, where he graduated second in his class with a GPA of 3.9. Lee was valedictorian of his high school class. During high school he studied Russian at Phillips Academy Andover’s Short Term Institutes.
Lee has lived in Natick, Hull, Framingham, Waltham, and Brookline, Massachusetts; Port Washington, New York; and London, England. He currently makes his home in Sarasota, Florida, with one wife, three children, and three dogs.
