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• Owen O'Malley is a writer / editor / and media producer for Gearwire. He started with the site in January of 2008, shortly after moving from The City That Never Sleeps to The City of Big Shoulders. He received a BFA from NYU in Theatre with a focus on Directing and Design. As a freelance Sound Designer, Owen designed over 40 off, off-off, and off-off-off Broadway productions, as well as productions in Connecticut, New Jersey and Los Angeles.
  
  Owen has played guitar, bass, violin, mandolin and ukulele with many, many bands in NYC, and currently plays bass with Chicago-based power-rock trio The Rikters.
  
  In the past, Owen has earned a living as a construction laborer, a violin instructor, a legal assistant, an electrical supply delivery driver, a grave digger, and a dishwasher at a seafood restaurant that used paper plates.

• Patrick Ogle handled media relations and PR for Projekt Records in Los Angeles and Chicago from 1994 to 1998. He was also the label's in-house booking agent, and, for a time, distribution manager. Ogle was also the principle member of the Projekt band Thanatos, releasing 3 CDs and an EP on the label between 1993 and 1997. The band toured the USA several times. Ogle also helped organize the first two highly successful Projekt Festivals at the Vic Theater in Chicago as well as other festivals in Los Angles, Philadelphia, and Mexico City.

  In 1998 Ogle formed Precipice Records, releasing and re-releasing music from a variety of dark-rock bands. Ogle was involved in the release of 9 releases over 6 years on Precipice including the Thanatos side-project, Illegalteenagebikini.

  In 1999 Ogle went to work for the Miami Herald working as a consumer reporter, humor writer and travel writer. In December 2005 he left the Herald to work for Facets Multimedia in Chicago. In 2006, Patrick Ogle joined Gearwire.com as a staff writer, covering a wide range of topics.

• Tracy Katz is a freelance writer / editor and self-proclaimed band geek. She received her BA in music from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she focused on playing French horn and everything brass. Before going freelance in 2008, she worked for a couple years as an editorial assistant for Electronic Musician, Remix, and their supplemental publications. Since then she has edited product manuals and done various behind-the-scenes work for Future Retro, in addition to producing newsletters for local groups and pursuing her hobbies in the fiber arts. She has been contributing to Gearwire since October of 2009.