Brian Pivik is the former Senior Content Manager at and has been working in the content creation industry for over 20 years. He’s a published author with an MA in Literary Criticism and has edited academic, business, journalistic, and online writing for such companies as Microsoft and Photobucket. He has a deep passion for education and higher learning and spends his spare time reading. Currently, he works as the Managing Editor for Design Mechanism, a tabletop role-playing game company.
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