Phil Burgert is a freelance editor and writer with more than 20 years of experience in business, technology and general journalism. He specializes in coverage of metals and other material, environmental coverage and manufacturing technology control and industrial networking topics. He has been based in Oak Park, Ill, for the past decade after spending five years as a daily trade newspaper foreign correspondent in London and Düsseldorf. He has also worked on other technology publications in New York and Chicago and has had other reporting positions in Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Georgia. Burgert has both bachelors and masters degrees in journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
