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Books24x7.com's Editorial Board is an independent group of noted technologists, authors and technical journalists. The board advises Books24x7.com on selecting books and topics for inclusion in the service. A board member evaluates each book and prepares a brief synopsis for inclusion in the service.
Editorial Board
| Jennifer deJong, Editorial Director
| Michael Nadeau
| John E. Simpson
| Stan Miastkowski
| Dean Andrews
| David Busch
| Eric Maloney
| Rebecca Rohan
| Barry Nance
| Susan Glinert
| Pete Loshin
| Nicholas Wells
| John Spooner
| Alan Zeichick
| Anne Fischer Lent
| Jane Morrill
| Ed Tittel

Each board member's biography is provided below.

Jennifer deJong Jennifer deJong is an editor and writer who has covered technology since 1983. She worked at Ziff-Davis Publishing for 10 years, holding editorial management positions at PC Magazine, PC Week, and Corporate Computing. She has also held editorial positions at web startups www.deja.com and www.mainspring.com, and contributed to www.cnet.com. Jennifer has written articles about the impact of technology on business for Investor's Business Daily, Inc. Technology, Working Woman, and Success. You may reach Jennifer via e-mail at jdejong@vermontel.net.

Michael Nadeau Michael Nadeau is a web and print editorial consultant specializing in high-tech and business media. He has over 20 years' experience in publishing, having held senior editorial management positions with various IDG publications BYTE, and Contract Professional magazine. Nadeau has also served as editorial director for Mainspring Communications, an analysis and consulting firm that helps companies resolve their Internet strategies with business goals. Current and previous clients include Ziff-Davis, Aquent, and McGraw-Hill. You may reach Michael via e-mail at mailto:mnadeau@editservices.com.

John E. Simpson John E. Simpson began his computing career in 1979, working on mainframe, Unix, and PC applications for 12 years with AT&T in Piscataway, NJ. Since 1993, he has been a distributed systems specialist with the city of Tallahassee, FL, developing mostly Microsoft Access and Visual Basic database applications. He is the co-author of HTML for Fun and Profit (Prentice Hall PTR). His newest book is Just XML (1999), also from Prentice Hall PTR. He is also the webmaster for the Tallahassee Public Works Department and for Anhinga Press, a publisher of poetry. His personal website is at http://www.flixml.org/; you may send him email at simpson@flixml.org.

Stan Miastkowski Stan Miastkowski has been writing about computers and technology for over two decades. Currently a contributing editor and columnist for PC World Magazine, he specializes in covering networking and Internet technologies for both the magazine and its Web site. Stan also writes for other publications, including CNet, Windows NT Systems, and CMP's PlanetIT Web site. He appeared on-camera on the PCTV syndicated series, and regularly anchored the PC World Newsradio webcast. Stan spent nearly a decade with BYTE magazine, and was senior editor when he left to pursue a full-time freelance career. He started his career in computers in the 1970s as a technical writer for Tandy/Radio Shack and later for Digital Equipment Corporation. You may reach Stan via e-mail at stanm@top.monad.net.

Dean Andrews Dean Andrews is a freelance writer and computer analyst. He has authored over 350 articles in a variety of national publications, including PC World, Macworld, The Web Magazine, and Boston.com, the online hub of the Boston Globe. Dean is the author of Windows 98 Hints & Hacks (Que) and a contributing author to Peter Norton's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs (Sams), Special Edition Using Windows 98 (Que), and Windows 98 Installation & Configuration Handbook (Que). He has also developed hundreds of computer benchmark and performance tests, usability studies, and test plans used to evaluate computer products and technology. Dean has worked as a manager in the PC World Test Center, a senior test developer at InfoWorld, and a software developer at IBM. He holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Andrews lives with his wife and son in Boston. You may reach Dean via e-mail at deanma@erols.com.

David Busch Two-time Computer Press Association winner David D. Busch has been demystifying arcane computer and imaging technology for PC and Macintosh owners since the early 1980s. As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for 10 leading computer magazines, he has more than 60 books and 2,500 articles to his credit, including Microsoft Works 99 Suite at a Glance (Microsoft Press, 1999), The Official Hewlett-Packard Scanner Handbook (Hewlett-Packard Press/IDG, 1999), and Astonishing Web Graphics with Kai's Power Tools and Plugins (AP Professional, 1998.) David Busch has also authored Photoshop 4 Answers! Certified Tech Support (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1998.) You may reach David via e-mail at dbusch@bigfoot.com.

Eric Maloney Eric Maloney is a freelance writer and currently co-edits Practical Windows magazine. He has co-authored books on Word for Windows and Microsoft's FrontPage, and he has edited several magazines including LAN Technology and PC Resource. You may reach Eric via e-mail at eric@maloney.mv.com.

Rebecca Rohan Rebecca Rohan has been writing about computer hardware, software, the Internet, and business since 1988 for magazines such as AdWeek's Marketing Week, Aquent, Black Enterprise, Cash Saver, Compute, Computer Shopper, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur's Home Office, Home Office Computing, HP World, I-Way/Web Now, Insurance News Network, Internet Shopper, Internet World, ISP World, IW Labs, Multimedia World, NetGuide, PC Computing, PC LapTop Computers, PC Sources, Profiles/Continental, Publish, Sales & Field Force Automation, Shareware, Web Developer, Web Week, Windows CE Technical Journal, Windows Magazine, Windows Sources, Windows User, and Writer's Digest. She is currently a contributing editor at Ziff Davis'; Sm@rt Partner, as well as Contract Professional, a contributing writer at SD (Software Development) Times, and an itinerant reviewer at Internet Week, Small Business Computing, and Linux Magazine. Rebecca is author of 101 Marketing Tips for Writers (CNW, 1990) and Building Better Web Pages (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998). She is a charter member of the Internet Press Guild, established in 1994. You may visit her Web site at http://www.bitcave.com/writing.htm.

Barry Nance Barry Nance, a computer analyst and consultant for 28 years, is the author of Introduction to Networking, 4th Edition (Que, 1997) and Client/Server LAN Programming (Que, 1994). He is a frequent contributor to several magazines and trade publications. You may send him email at barryn@erols.com.

Susan Glinert Susan Glinert has been a freelance programmer, writer, and graphic designer since 1981. She was a technical editor for the PC Tech Journal, and has written thousands of articles for trade magazines, including Creative Computing, PC Sources, Windows Sources, Home Office Computing, and Computer Shopper, where she is a contributing editor. Susan specializes in troubleshooting PCs, writing VBA programs, and designing Web sites and books for a variety of publishers. You may reach Susan via e-mail at sglinert@alltel.net.

Pete Loshin Pete Loshin started writing about computers in the late 1980s for PC Magazine and PC Week, and shortly afterward discovered TCP/IP and the Internet. Following a six-year stint as a TCP/IP network engineer for an R&D laboratory in Cambridge, MA, Pete began consulting and writing about Internet protocols and networking full-time. He served as technical editor for BYTE magazine, as well as editor of the newsletter Corporate Internet Strategies. He is currently a columnist for Information Security, Boardwatch, and Earthweb. Pete's articles have appeared in magazines such as PC World, Communications Week, Data Communications, Communications News, Telecommunications, and many others, and his consulting clients include Microsoft Corporation, Deutsche Telekom, ClicVU, and others. Pete has written 20 books about TCP/IP, the Internet, and networking, including TCP/IP Clearly Explained (Morgan Kaufmann, 1999), IPv6 Clearly Explained (Morgan Kaufmann, 1999) and the "Big Book of RFCs" series from Morgan Kaufmann. You may reach Pete at pete@loshin.com.

Nicholas Wells Nicholas Wells has written or contributed to numerous books on subjects ranging from Linux and UNIX to NetWare and the Web. His work includes authoring the Linux Web Server Toolkit, Teach Yourself KDE and Teach Yourself StarOffice, as well as several forthcoming Linux-related titles. He has also contributed to numerous books including the UNIX System Administrator's Bible. With an MBA and 18 years of experience in the software industry, Nicholas presents regularly at conferences and user group meetings around the world, often on Linux and the growing Open Source software movement. Formerly a programmer and then a technical writer at Novell, Nicholas was a key member of the team documenting NetWare 4 and subsequently created a complete video training series on NetWare security. Nicholas recently left a director position at top Linux vendor Caldera Systems, Inc., to write and consult full time. You may reach Nicholas at @.

John Spooner John Spooner is a senior writer for PC Week, covering the desktop PC beat. You may reach John at john_spooner@zd.com.

Alan Zeichick Alan Zeichick is an independent technology analyst and writer. In the dark and distant past he worked as a mainframe programmer, but since the early 1980s, he's lived in the world of technology journalism. As a full-time staff editor, his career spanned the positions of technical editor of PC Games, executive editor of Portable Computing, and editor-in-chief of AI Expert Magazine, Cadence Magazine, OS/2 Magazine, and Network Magazine. He's currently a contributing editor to InternetWeek, Smart Reseller, Software Development Magazine, and The Red Herring, as well as editor-in-chief of Windows CE Tech Journal. Alan also works as a consultant to several publishing companies. In his spare time, he speaks at events such as Comdex, Networld + Interop, and PC Expo. You can reach Alan at zeichick@camdenassociates.com.

Anne Fischer Lent Anne Fischer Lent is a writer and researcher whose work focuses on technology and business. She is the author of The Ultimate Desktop Publishing Starter Kit, Addison-Wesley, 1995 and co-author of The Windows for Workgroups Bible, Addison-Wesley, 1993. She has written frequently on customer relationship management, databases and data warehousing, and other enterprise computing technologies for Fortune magazine, InformationWeek, PC World Online, Windows NT magazine, BusinessWeek, CNet, and more. For ten years Anne was on the staff of BYTE magazine, most recently as managing editor. She served as editorial consultant to the launch of Windows NT magazine, and subsequently became its first news editor. In 1993 she founded Fischer Lent Communications, whose clients include IBM, Creative Labs, AutoCAD, Airmar Technology, Modern Age Books, and more. Anne is also a consulting analyst with ActivMedia Research, specializing in E-commerce trends and techniques. Contact Anne at alent@monad.net.

Jane Morrill Jane Morrill is a writer and editor in technology. She was the founding editor of Windows NT Magazine and its managing editor, working with technical professionals on topics from Visual Basic to Web design. She also launched and ran the magazine’s Custom Publishing department, which involved working on various business topics, ranging from manufacturing to productivity applications and network storage. Jane also launched various online and print newsletters on topics from Transact-SQL to Application Service Providers. Her writings have appeared in BYTE magazine, Windows NT Magazine, and Seybold’s Distributed Computing Monitor, among others. Jane was also head of BYTE magazine’s State of the Art section, which dealt with advanced technical topics from optical technologies to advanced graphics and microprocessor internals. She received a McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on BYTE’s 15th Anniversary Summit Issue, which contained interviews with 63 of the giants in the computer industry. These people included Bill Gates, Jack Kilby (who recently received the Nobel Prize for his work developing the integrated circuit), and Benoit Mandelbrot (the founder of fractals), among others.

Ed Tittel Ed Tittel is a 20-year computing industry veteran with an interesting background. As he finished his coursework and exams for a PhD in Anthropology in 1978, Ed decided to change fields to computer science. 3 years later, he began working full-time in the field and hasn't looked back. Starting as a software developer with a focus on database engines, Ed has also been a technical manager, a systems engineer, a marketing manager, and a director of technical marketing for companies like Excelan, Novell, Hart Graphics, and Schlumberger (though not in that order). Since 1994, Ed has run a small company named LANWrights, Inc., in Austin, TX, where he still makes his home. A contributor to over 100 computer books, the developer of the "Exam Cram" series of certification preparation tools, Ed writes regularly about IT certifications, markup languages, and networking topics. Ed also writes for numerous Web sites, including several TechTarget.com sites, InformIT.com, Bizland.com, and examcram.com. He's a contributing editor for Certification and IT Contractor magazines, and teaches on Windows topics at Interop and at various TechTarget and Ziff-Davis conferences. For more information, visit Ed's web page at http://www.lanw.com/staff/etbio.htm You can reach Ed Tittel at etittel@lanw.com.

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