Senior Developer at Co-operative Web
United Kingdom
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- Senior Developer at Co-operative Web
- Technical Author, Editor & Reviewer at Freelance (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Technical Manager at Midcounties Co-operative Ltd
- Web Developer at 3Form
- Series Editor at Wrox Press
- Managing Editor at Wrox India Ltd
- Technical Editor at Wrox Press
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Dan Maharry’s Summary
- Ten years of experience working on both sides of the editorial process as author, reviewer and commissioning editor, proofer, editor and publisher.
- I have contributed in some role to over forty books with total sales of over 750,000.
- Sound knowledge and experience of developing applications for the web and enterprise using Microsoft .NET technologies.
- Constant desire to learn new things, to understand them and to pass that knowledge on in the best way possible, be it through books, presentations or digital media.
- Ability to quickly, learn, absorb, and analyse the effects of new technology on current business operations.
Dan Maharry’s Specialties:
- Recruiting, managing and training editorial \ developer teams
- Writing proposal documents, managing budgets and projects
- Experience of all roles in editorial process
- Developing new publishing mechanisms, online or offline.
- Developing and enhancing existing systems for quality and content.
- Developing presentations, conferences, courses, books, online guides, articles
- Web development with (X)HTML, CSS, XML, ASP.NET, Visual Studio .NET, C#, SQL Server
Dan Maharry’s Experience
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Senior Developer
Co-operative Web
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
Senior C# \ ASP.NET Developer
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Technical Author, Editor & Reviewer
Freelance (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Publishing industry)
January 2002 — Present (6 years 10 months)
- Co-wrote seven books
- Wrote and reviewed book proposals based on knowledge of market, proposed contents and writing style.
- Reviewed first drafts of books for writing style, technical accuracy, flow, correctness of code and consistency.
- Assembled teams of authors for books, assigned them work, negotiated contracts with publishers, acted as point of contact with publishers.
- Monthly book review column in .NET Developers’ Journal (’03 – ’04)
- Devised, wrote and proved process documents for the commissioning, writing and editing of custom course books.
- Provided documentation and sample code for inclusion in forthcoming versions of clients' software products.
- Clients include Adaptive Strategy Ltd, Telerik, SAMS Publishing, Microsoft Press, Addison Wesley, Wiley, APress and Wrox Press
- Led session at Microsoft PDC 2003 on book writing.
- All book levels catered for: Beginner to advanced tutorials, reference, opinion pieces. -
Technical Manager
Midcounties Co-operative Ltd
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
February 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 11 months)
- Systems manager, lead programmer & support engineer for the dotCoop top level domain registry (www.nic.coop) on behalf of the Midcounties Co-operative (www.midcounties.coop).
- Responsible for all planning, software development, and hardware changes made to this global system.
- Responsible for the training of on-call support team for the system.
- Technical liaison to various service providers used by registry systems and all third parties that directly use the registry’s services. -
Web Developer
3Form
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2004 — February 2005 (10 months)
- Wrote technical specifications for a website based on customer requirements
- Prototyped wireframe models for those websites with ASP.NET, C# & XML.
- Scoped future modules for and iterations of the company’s web-based CMS on which client websites are based. -
Series Editor
Wrox Press
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
April 2001 — December 2001 (9 months)
- Co-pioneered new role at Wrox as book lead over entire period of book, from concept and design through to writing and editing.
- Developed and created new Ealry Adopter book series and editorial process for bleeding edge technology topics. Books had two month turnaround.
- Duties include commissioning books, setting budgets, managing a team of six editors and writing chapters and press releases for the books. -
Managing Editor
Wrox India Ltd
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)
- Co-founded & built new Indian office for Wrox Press in Bangalore, India
- Devised 18 month publishing strategy for office. Had overall control of the editorial output of the office.
- Responsible for personnel hiring, assessment and training groups of editors.
- Organized sessions for three day, multi-track, international conference on open source software development. -
Technical Editor
Wrox Press
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
December 1997 — July 2000 (2 years 8 months)
- Grammar, fact, and code checked text as it arrived from author.
- Wrote and commissioned extra content as required.
- Edited text for consistency across the whole book and house style.
- Worked in Web development, C++, XML, Java and Open Source groups.
- Original editor for flagship web development site ASP Today.
- Designed original site and led small team of editors commissioning daily content for a year.
- By end of post, site had 50,000 subscribers and was number one ASP site.
