Career
He currently works at Oracle Corporation as director of strategic communications, and previously was as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and founding editor of Chief Information Officer Journal. His debut work, The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing, was published in 1991 and featured a cover design by Chip Kidd. Kirkus Reviews called the anthology "a strange collection" and "a weird and unconvincing debut." Hickins has been a speaker and panelist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Chief Information Officer Symposium in both 2013 and 2014.