Author

Bestselling Author

  • ASP.NET 2.0 For Dummies (First and Second Editions, Wiley)
  • Active Server Pages For Dummies (First and Second Editions, Wiley)
  • Visual InterDev For Dummies (Wiley)
  • Windows XP in 10 Easy Steps or Less (Wiley)
  • Creating Cool VBScript Web Pages (Wiley)
  • Developing PowerBuilder Applications (First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, SAMS;  The first book published on PowerBuilder and an international bestseller for many months)
  • Co-author of other books, including: ASP.NET Professional Secrets (Wiley), ASP.NET Bible (Wiley) and Visual Basic 4 Unleashed (SAMS)

Instructional Designer and Course Developer

  • Created a comprehensive 40-hour course on Avanade’s ACA Analytics, an internal asset used to accelerate development on Business Intelligence projects; Combined live video training with slides, Camtasia demos and extensive lab work (Avanade, Seattle)
  • Created a 10-hour course on Avanade’s ACA.NET, an internal asset used to generate repetitive code for Service-Oriented Applications (SOA) built on the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework; Utilized Articulate and Camtasia (Avanade, Seattle)
  • Created and presented four separate 10-hour video training courses on Windows and Web development with Visual Studio 2005 (CareerAcademy.com, Needham, MA); A link to one of the four courses:  Developing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Applications
  • Designed and presented the Developer Discover webcasts series for Pinnacle Publishing; Each was a 90-minute drill-down on a key technology followed by a live questions and answer session
  • Created and presented self-paced eLearning course for DevX.com using Camtasia

Instructional Designer/Developer: Live, Instructor-Lead Courseware

  • Created a four-day XML course that integrated concise lectures with practical hands-on lab work to teach XML and the key technologies surrounding it including XML Schema, XSLT and DOM (Progressive Solutions)
  • Authored two four-day courses on client/server development Courses teach experienced developers client/server development techniques using Visual Basic and Borland’s Delphi (Technology Exchange Company)
  • Coordinated and moderated the Microsoft Technology Webcast Series at Avanade; Each presentation was dedicated to a specific technology and brought together a Microsoft expert with the Avanade executive overseeing the technology to explore both the technology itself and Avanade’s approach
  • Acted as Editor for several monthly professional journals for developers from Pinnacle Publishing; I set the editorial direction and focus, solicited and accepted articles from industry experts, edited the articles and submitted them for publishing

Professional Journal Editor

  • Over more than a decade, I edited five different software-development journals for Pinnacle Publishing. I set the editorial direction and focus, solicited and accepted articles from industry experts, edited the articles and submitted them for publishing.
    • Visual Studio .NET Developer
    • Hardcore C#
    • Hardcore ASP.NET
    • Hardcore Delphi
    • PowerSource