Mark Fontecchio, 30, is a news writer for TechTarget, an information technology media company in Needham, Mass. There he reports mainly on data center issues for the SearchDataCenter.com site. He also writes for Search400.com.

Before coming to TechTarget, Fontecchio was a reporter for The Patriot Ledger, an afternoon daily newspaper in Quincy, Mass. He also worked as a reporter for the Boston Herald-owned Community Newspaper Company and as a copy editor for the Portsmouth Herald in Portsmouth, N.H.

He also writes for From Here to Paternity, a blog on fatherhood at Chicago-based news site the Windy Citizen.