Lynn Beighley

Millburn, NJ USA
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Professional Experience

Editor and best-selling author of dozens of books, courses, and articles. I turn tedious technical info into clear copy that even the most tech-phobic novice can follow. I offer editing, website creation, and both creative and technical copywriting.

Expertise

Web Developer
10 Years
Editor
20 Years
Writer
25 Years

Specialty

Books & Literature
20 Years
Fiction
15 Years
Technology
15 Years

Industries


Book Publishing Consumer
20 Years
Online/new media
10 Years
Marketing (in-house) - Fortune 1000 corp. clients
10 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

15 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Imagine Media (10+), Peachpit Press (3-5), Pragmatic Publishers (3-5), Pearson Publishing (1-2), O'Reilly Publishing (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Boeing (10+)

Technical Skills

Creative writing (short stories, scripts, advertising copy), Technical writing (user guides, training materials, specifications), Web design and development (WordPress, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, MYSQL), Design and animation (Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash)

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Acrobat, PowerPoint, WordPress, Drupal. Operating Systems (OS X, Windows XP), HTML, Flash, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, SQL.

Equipment

MacBook Pro, Adobe CS6, iPhone 6, iPad, Scrivener, MS Office.

Showcase

Books I've written

How to create a subquery in SQL. This is a sample from my book, Head First SQL.
A chapter from my book, iPhone 5 Visual QuickStart.

Published short fiction

Flash fiction.
Flash fiction.