Sharon Machlis has been an online content pioneer since before the World Wide Web, having programmed and set up a newspaper online service in 1987 and coded her first Web site in November of 1995.

Sharon joined Computerworld as a writer covering security, government technology and e-commerce before becoming online news editor and then online managing editor.

During her tenure as online managing editor, Computerworld.com has won numerous editorial awards, including ASBPE best Web site, MIN best of the Web and the Jesse Neal Award for best Web site.

She was previously a senior editor at Design News, where she won a Jesse Neal certificate of merit for a 10-page cover feature on engineering in the Soviet Union; and a reporter, technology columnist and business editor at the Middlesex News daily newspaper

Sharon holds an Extra-class ham radio license and was honored by the Association of Radio Amateurs of Bosnia & Herzegovina "for extraordinary contribution to transmitting of humanitarian messages of the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina" during the 1992-95 war.

You can follow Sharon on Twitter @sharon000 or check out her blog on Computerworld.