Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing
- Past
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- Product Development Associate at Klear Systems
- Development Editor at Wrox Press
- Programmer at Bluesoft Limited
- Education
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- Aston University
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David Barnes’s Summary
I want to publish books that give readers the courage and motivation to do new things with technology, and have fun along the way.
It might be new to the world, or just new to the reader. My passion is teaching through books.
David Barnes’s Specialties:
Editing, writing, making writing engage the reader, overcoming the dullness tendency in technical writing.
David Barnes’s Experience
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Acquisition Editor
Packt Publishing
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
May 2004 — Present (4 years 1 month)
Finding exciting and profitable book ideas and authors to turn those ideas into published books.
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Product Development Associate
Klear Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — May 2004 (1 year)
Working at a start-up IT company that never quite started up.
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Development Editor
Wrox Press
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)
September 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 7 months)
I developed popular books about programming ASP.NET, including: ASP.NET Website Programming, Beginning Dynamic Websites with ASP.NET Web Matrix, Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce.
I aimed to produce books that were friendly, accessible, and desirable without dumbing down. -
Programmer
Bluesoft Limited
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Writing and modifying software applications and web sites using VB6 and ASP3. This was a great experience that gave me experience of software development in the standards-free, seat-of-your-pants jungle that qualifies as the real world.
David Barnes’s Education
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Aston University
BSc (Hons), IT for Business, 1997 — 2001
The course comprised approximately two thirds computer science and one third business. I took to the computer stuff most easily, but it's the grounding in business studies that has proven most useful -- and interesting -- since.
David Barnes’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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