Barry de la Rosa

Past

• Senior Technology Engineer at NewsNow.co.uk
• Freelance game reviewer at Freelance (Self-employed)
• Journalist at VNU Business Publications

• Techie at Daryl Willcox Publishing

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Education

• The University of Sheffield

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Barry de la Rosa’s Summary

Web veteran with a talent for working with editorial content. Technology background led to work as a journalist on respected IT titles such as PC Week and Computing, and then on to pioneering news aggregation service NewsNow.co.uk. Currently looking for writing or editorial work, preferably in the IT industry.

Barry de la Rosa’s Specialties:

XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XSL, Regular Expressions
Writing, copy editing, sourcing feature content

Barry de la Rosa’s Experience

• Senior Technology Engineer

  NewsNow.co.uk

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  June 2000 — June 2006 (6 years 1 month)

  Site database management for this news aggregation service. Responsible for adding to and maintaining a database of over 22 000 sites, and solely responsible for dealing with direct publisher enquiries. Earlier responisibilites included product development and site design. Technologies used included Perl Regular Expressions, XSL, HTML and Javascript.

• Freelance game reviewer

  Freelance (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

  September 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 9 months)

  Writing game reviews for various publications, mainly ComputerActive, a consumer-oriented technology magazine.

• Journalist

  VNU Business Publications

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  June 1998 — June 2000 (2 years 1 month)

  Started as a writer on PC Week, then became Features Editor for Network News, and a short spell as a Senior Reporter at Computing magazine.

• Techie

  Daryl Willcox Publishing

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

Barry de la Rosa’s Education

• The University of Sheffield

  BA , French, Business Studies , 1989 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Creative Writing Society