
Lori Kaufman
Lori Kaufman is a technology expert with 25 years of experience. She's been a senior technical writer, worked as a programmer, and has even run her own multi-location business.
Her writing career has spanned everything from Windows to Linux, Android to iPhone, and Chrome to Firefox. But the bulk of her experience has been writing useful articles explaining how to use almost every feature in Microsoft Office or Windows. She's written helpful articles about Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10.
Lori worked as a programmer and technical writer for Rotordynamics-Seal Research, where she programmed key parts of the user interface of the RAPPID™ software for modeling the rotordynamic characteristics of complex systems and authored its technical documentation. She has also worked as a senior technical writer and project manager for New York Life. Online, her work has been published on MakeUseOf, groovyPost, and right here at How-To Geek.
She holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lori also loves reading mysteries, cross stitching, musical theatre, collecting gadgets, and Doctor Who.
About How-To Geek
How-To Geek is an online technology magazine and one of the top 500 websites in the US. Since it was created more than a decade ago, the site’s 20,000+ in-depth articles have been read billions of times. More than 20 million people read our articles every month.
We're the people you turn to when you want someone to explain technology, whether that means detailed troubleshooting guides or in-depth explainers on the latest tech. Our team of expert writers and editors have decades of experience in journalism and technology. Beyond the web, they've written books for publishers like Microsoft Press and have been published in print magazines like PCWorld and Consumers Digest.
How-To Geek has been recommended as an expert resource by industry groups like the Wi-Fi Alliance and newspapers like The New York Times. Organizations like the BBC and Wirecutter have directed their readers to us for our helpful tutorials. Our writers have been interviewed as experts on TV and radio programs. We're an independent company that remains fully owned by our founders, too.