Author, Owner/Principal at Overdue Books LLC
Provo, Utah Area
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- Author, Owner/Principal at Overdue Books LLC
- Past
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- Director of Education at AtTask, Inc.
- Writer, editor, and programmer at Wy'east Communications
- Committee Member at OASIS RELAX NG Technical Committee
- Senior Technical Writer at Tektronix
- Freelance Writer and Editor at Overdue Books
- Contract Writer, Technical Writer III at Mentor Graphics
- Technical Writer I & II, Contract Writer at Tektronix
- Education
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- Brigham Young University
- Ricks College
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Mike Fitzgerald’s Summary
Author, writer and programmer with over 25 years of experience. Author of nine technical books (published by O'Reilly and John Wiley & Sons) which have appeared in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese. Writer of numerous technical articles. Former member of the OASIS RELAX NG technical committee. In addition to technical books, I have also written copy, travel articles and features for newspapers and magazines, children's books, and nonfiction books.
Mike Fitzgerald’s Specialties:
Expertise in writing, editing, micropublishing, XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS, XSLT, RELAX NG, and the Ruby programming language.
Mike Fitzgerald’s Experience
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Author, Owner/Principal
Overdue Books LLC
(Writing and Editing industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Book writing coach. Author. Writing, editing and publishing services. Micropublishing specialist. Trained in SEO, SEO consulting.
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Director of Education
AtTask, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — October 2008 (11 months)
Managed and participated materially in the development of technical documentation, video tutorials, and training materials that support @task project management software.
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Writer, editor, and programmer
Wy'east Communications
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 1999 — December 2007 (9 years )
Author of Building B2B Applications with XML (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), XSL Essentials (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), Learning XSLT (O’Reilly, 2003), XML Hacks (O’Reilly, 2004), XML Pocket Reference, Third Edition (coauthor, O’Reilly, 2005), Learning Ruby (O’Reilly, 2007), and Ruby Pocket Reference (O’Reilly, 2007). Member, OASIS RELAX NG Technical Committee (2001–2003). Author of numerous technical articles. Author of XML and XSLT training courses. Editor of joint Microsoft/Intel book. Presenter at conferences: WinWriters 1999, XML 2004, OSCON 2003, 2004, and 2007.
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Committee Member
OASIS RELAX NG Technical Committee
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
January 2001 — December 2003 (3 years )
Worked on the committee that, under the leadership of James Clark and Murata Makoto, developed the RELAX NG schema language for XML.
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Senior Technical Writer
Tektronix
(Public Company; DHR; Telecommunications industry)
April 1996 — October 1998 (2 years 7 months)
Lead writer. Wrote technical manuals on digital video recorder software. Web developer. Windows Help developer.
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Freelance Writer and Editor
Overdue Books
(Writing and Editing industry)
November 1991 — April 1996 (4 years 6 months)
Self-employed freelance writer and contract writer. Web development, newspaper and magazine articles (travel and features), copy editor for newspaper, Windows Help developer.
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Contract Writer, Technical Writer III
Mentor Graphics
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MENT; Computer Software industry)
September 1990 — November 1991 (1 year 3 months)
Wrote 1,000-page programming manual. Lead grammar workshop for writers. Continuous improvement trainer.
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Technical Writer I & II, Contract Writer
Tektronix
(Public Company; DHR; Telecommunications industry)
August 1983 — September 1990 (7 years 2 months)
Wrote user manuals, reference manuals, and reference guides for computer graphics applications and application programming interfaces (time period includes some education leave).
Mike Fitzgerald’s Education
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Brigham Young University
BA , English , 1982 — 1983
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Ricks College
AAS , General, Horsemanship and Stable Management , 1979 — 1981
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Mike Fitzgerald’s Interests:
Writing, reading, horses, skiing
