Summary
- White papers, marketing content, and product literature
- Guides, tutorials, help content, and “Dummies” books for users, developers, and media professionals
- Proven ability to manage media production, including online, video, presentations, and print
- Accomplished, self-motivated writer with a strong aptitude for articulating a technology’s value
- Recent clients: Google, Electronic Arts, Adobe, Deem, Check Point, Armis, McAfee
Employment
Freelance Writer:
- Check Point: White papers on cyber-threat prevention. Examples: Zero-Day Protection: Block Unknown Threats, Humans are Your Weakest Link
- Armis: Agentless Device Security for Retail Environments
- Pure Storage: Customer success stories and case studies
- SumTotal Systems: Technical briefs about learning management
- McAfee: Network security and virtualization products
- Adobe: Secure forms and document delivery
- BEA Systems: Sales portal for content, ROI calculators, and case studies
- Sun Microsystems: Customer success stories and case studies
Senior Technical Writer and Content Strategist, Expert Support at Google:
- Angular team: Framework for JavaScript/TypeScript applications with HTML templates
- Assistant team: External quick-start guides for Assistant partners, and internal documentation for Assistant feature development, natural-language understanding, and machine learning
- Ads: Quick-start guides for partner integration with Google Ads
- Dev training: Fundamental and Advanced courses for Android app development
Technical Publishing and Training Manager, Deem:
- Multilingual user help content and videos for travel-industry professionals
- Administrator portal and API reference guides for travel-industry developers
- Organization-wide learning
Book Author, Video Producer, and App Developer:
- iPad App Development For Dummies (book) and Non-Programmers Guide To Building iOS Apps (DVD/video)
- Multiple editions of iPod and iTunes for Dummies, iLife for Dummies, and Adobe Illustrator: The Official Handbook for Designers — consistently in the Top 50 of Computer Books
- Critical acclaim for groundbreaking books such as Just Say No To Microsoft (2005), The Well-Connected Macintosh (1988), and The Art of Desktop Publishing (1986)
- Tony’s Tips for iPhone Users iPhone app
Previous Positions:
- Marketing Director, BEA
- Communications Manager: Live Picture (LivePix)
- CD-ROM Producer: Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties and Macromedia Director (Random House)
- Editorial Director: NewMedia magazine, Publish! magazine
- Editor: Desktop Publishing magazine, Macromedia User Journal, Inside Report on New Media
- Columnist: Computer Currents magazine, Prodigy (online), The Well (online), The Chicago Tribune, PC Computing magazine, MacUser magazine, Macintosh Today magazine
- Senior Technical Writer: Intel, Data General
Recognition
- “One of the most interesting overviews of modern desktop computing history that’s ever been written… possibly a watershed event.” John Dvorak on Just Say No to Microsoft
- “Every Microsoft engineer and product planner should read it.” Robert Scoble, blogger and former Microsoft Technical Evangelist, on Just Say No to Microsoft
- “Near genius at making complex ideas understandable.” Jerry Pournelle
