Tony Bove Email & Phone Number

Kauai County, Hawaii, United States

Support developers with quick-start guides, reference guides, and API documentation.

Mountain View, Ca

Supported Assistant-related partner integration and internal feature development with quick-start guides, reference guides, and API documentation.

San Francisco Bay Area

Helped drive partner adoption of e-commerce development with quick-start guides on developing web services using sets of APIs from a leading e-commerce company. The guides shortened the learning curve so that the company could get partners up and running faster and realize revenue sooner.

San Francisco Bay Area

Drove adoption of Android app development with online courses, including Android Development Fundamentals and Advanced Android Development, including sample apps in Java.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Multilingual user help content and videos for travel-industry professionals helped increase by 5x the adoption of business travel and expense cloud services.• Administrator portal and reference guides for travel-industry developers reduced support calls by 75% and accelerated partner site deployments.• API documentation for e-commerce/offers developers drove adoption and engagement.• Company wiki (Confluence), release notes, and bug-reporting (Jira, Perforce) improved organizational learning and account management.

* Achieved Top 50 Computer Books status for multiple editions of iPod and iTunes for Dummies and Adobe Illustrator: The Official Handbook for Designers.* Garnered critical acclaim and excellent reviews for the Just Say No To Microsoft book.* Wrote iPad Application Development For Dummies, iLife For Dummies, Macromedia Director Official Guide, The Art of Desktop Publishing, and a dozen other computer books.

* Developed and published Tony's Tips for iPhone Users (iPhone app in Objective C), which provided helpful tips for using your iPhone with iTunes. * Helped launch iPhone and iPad apps and wikis (Wikipanion, Alive Albums for iPad) and iTunes content (Flying Other Brothers album).

* Improved organizational learning for SumTotal Systems customers by writing technical briefs about learning management.* Generated leads for McAfee network security and virtualization products, Adobe secure forms and document delivery offerings, and PivotLink business intelligence solutions by writing technical briefs and data sheets for web sites and trade shows.

Developed messaging strategy and wrote the “Innovating with Dynamic Business Applications” white paper and microsite content to establish BEA’s thought leadership in enterprise innovation, services-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM) and Web 2.0 social computing technologies.

Managed the customer reference program and developed case studies, presentations, demographics, and statistics for Sun’s Services and Storage divisions. My experience includes:* Briefing customers for high-visibility speaking engagements.* Building and maintaining customer demographic information and customer data-points.* Monitoring new customer acquisitions and statistics for potential press opportunities.* Preparing customer information for analyst presentations and assisting with analyst briefings.* Sourcing customers for media briefings.

* Contributed to a 61% increase in BEA revenues in 2000 by writing about application servers and software-as-a-service (SaaS) for a rebranding campaign.* Improved BEA sales efforts by developing a portal for content, ROI calculators, and case studies.* Launched the first customer reference program and developed customer references for media/analyst briefings.* Mapped all marketing knowledge for sales efforts with a content management system.* Increased effectiveness of sales efforts by building and maintaining demographics and statistics, and developing product and corporate messaging for marketing campaigns and web content.

* Managed and produced all corporate communications including Chairman John Sculley’s keynote presentations.* Created brand-building videos and web sites.* Developed customer references and wrote success stories, marketing and sales collateral, press releases, event literature, and white papers.

Wrote all technical and marketing documentation for the NewFire TORCH plug-in browser for playing interactive games on the Internet.

Published the "Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties" entertainment CD-ROM featuring original art, photos, video clips, and music of the period including Allen Cohen, the S.F. Oracle, the Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Chet Helms, Bill Graham, and many others.

Wrote about and consulted on the technology behind the Mediaband live interactive music experience and interactive club atmosphere.

Consulted with CMP on the launch of the NetGuide online search service.

Published the Macromedia User Journal and the Bove & Rhodes Inside Report on New Media.

Started one of the first industry-insider newsletters on desktop publishing, which eventually grew to cover multimedia as well.

Founded Desktop Publishing magazine, renamed to Publish after the acquisition by PCW Communications. I continued as editor and columnist, while also publishing a newsletter for PCW titled "Inside Report".

Wrote a weekly column and contributed articles about desktop publishing with Macs.

Started the magazine on a wing and a prayer and the term "desktop publishing" and eventually sold it to PCW to restart it as Publish magazine.

Edited and published Portable Companion magazine for Osborne Computer, which created the first portable computer.

Santa Clara, Ca

* Started as a technical writer and became senior writer for microcomputer development systems.* Won the Society for Technical Communications (STC) First Prize Award for a reference manual.* Wrote the first tutorials on using Pascal and developing for the Intel 286.