Matthew Helmke

Current

writer at O'Reilly & Associates
writer at Pearson Education

Past

writer at Self Published (Self-employed)
Owner at Derby and Wehttam
Administrator at DMG Arabophon

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Education

University of Arizona
DMG Arabophon
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University of Arizona

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Matthew Helmke’s Summary

I have written the following books, all available on Amazon.com and from other sources:
- Humor and Moroccan Culture
- Nowhere Else to Turn
- The Official Ubuntu Book, fourth edition (co-author)
- VMware Cookbook (co-author)
- Ubuntu Unleashed, 2010 edition (co-author)

I have written magazine articles for Linux+ and Linux Identity.

I have created many and administer several websites including matthewhelmke.com, matthewhelmke.net, secondmi.org, and others.

I am an administrator for ubuntuforums.org and sit on a regional membership board for the wider Ubuntu community.

I have run a consulting and publishing business in Morocco.

I have been a language school administrator in Morocco.

I'm currently a master's degree student at the University of Arizona and loving it.

Matthew Helmke’s Specialties:

Culture, language, free and open source software, information resources, information technology, creative commons licensing, copyright issues, print on demand publishing, general writing and editing, and I play a pretty mean guitar.

Matthew Helmke’s Experience

writer

O'Reilly & Associates

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
writer

Pearson Education

(Public Company; PSO; Publishing industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
writer
Self Published (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )

I wrote and published two book about the culture and language of Morocco. Both are available from Amazon and other retailers. The titles are "Humor and Moroccan Culture" and "Nowhere Else to Turn".
Owner

Derby and Wehttam

(Information Services industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )

I ran a small business in Morocco, North Africa while doing consulting, cultural research, writing and publishing books.
Administrator

DMG Arabophon

(Education Management industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

Matthew Helmke’s Education

University of Arizona

MA , Information Resources and Library Science , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
DMG Arabophon

certificate , Modern Standard Arabic , 2002 — 2003
DMG Arabophon

certificate , Moroccan Dialectical Arabic , 2001 — 2002
University of Arizona

BA , Education, minor: Social Sciences , 1988 — 1992