Mike Fitzgerald

Past

• Director of Education at AtTask, Inc.
• Writer, editor, and programmer at Wy'east Communications
• Senior Technical Writer at Tektronix

• Freelance Writer and Editor at Overdue Books
• Contract Writer, Technical Writer III at Mentor Graphics
• Techical Writer I & II, Contract Writer at Tektronix

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Education

• Brigham Young University
• Ricks College

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Mike Fitzgerald’s Summary

Author, writer and programmer with 25 years experience. Author of nine technical books (with John Wiley & Sons and O'Reilly) which have appeared in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese. Author of numerous technical articles. Former member of the OASIS RELAX NG technical committee.

Mike Fitzgerald’s Specialties:

Expertise in writing, editing, XML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, RELAX NG, HTML, and the Ruby programming language.

Mike Fitzgerald’s Experience

• 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.

• 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.

• Senior Technical Writer

  Tektronix

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TEK; Telecommunications industry)

  April 1996 — October 1998 (2 years 7 months)

  Wrote technical manuals on digital video recorder software. Lead writer. Web developer. Windows Help developer.

• 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.

• 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.

• Techical Writer I & II, Contract Writer

  Tektronix

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TEK; 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

• Brigham Young University

  BA, English, 1982 — 1983

• Ricks College

  AAS, General, Horsemanship and Stable Management, 1979 — 1981

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• My Company
• My Blog

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