Daniel Brian Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Greater Boston

I teach people how to use virtual machines, APIs, and other cloud services through documentation at docs.digitalocean.com

Manchester, Nh

GPD is a company I founded with two other people dedicated to designing board games with a completely transparent design process. It's half game company, half online reality TV show. Through online media, we've completely opened up the process of starting a company from the ground up, allowing people to see our struggles and successes as move towards our goal of publishing our first game this summer.• Came in third place in the Dyn Inc. Launch contest with a video pitch I produced from scratch.• Have taken on several marketing roles for the company including writing press releases, networking and producing PR using both social and conventional media.• Designed and collaborated on several board games, complete with art and rulebooks.• Organized and managed several events, from our monthly Play Date events where I teach kids how to play games to the first New Hampshire Game Jam, a 36 hour game design contest.• Managed several social media facets, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google Drive (for media sharing purposes).

Manchester, Nh

Managing the Dyn+Oracle technical writer group that maintains documentation for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Dyn products.

Manchester, Nh

Writing documentation for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Manchester Nh

Writing, editing, and publishing support documentation. Scripting, recording, and producing tutorial videos for Dyn's products.

Prepped magazines, catalogs and brochures before going to press.• Mastered the web-to-print Kodak Prinergy system and supported the customer base using it.• Helped structure work flows for maximum efficiency and minimal error rates.• Managed changes to the prepress section of CummingsPrinting.com using Joomla and CSS.• Learned the technical side of printing including digital and conventional plate making, presstechniques and imposition.

Was a key player involved in the decisions of sales and marketing strategies.• Designed magazine ads, logos, labels and marketing materials which are now key components of ADSI’s image.• Traveled the world and trained customers in Adobe Illustrator and ADSI's diecutting technology.• Initiated and wrote the company’s first press release about a new product.• Fielded tech support calls from around the world at any hour over the phone, email, Skype and Skype Video.• Wrote, shot and produced professional looking videos for new products and training

Resident urban music writer. Contributed feature articles and reviews.

• Was awarded 2nd and 3rd place by the New Hampshire Press Association for black & white ad design in 2006.• Created and managed a system for the classifieds section of two news print publications.• Was the sole designer in putting together a daily paper two nights a week.• Became the production manager of the local men’s magazine, The Oxx.• Played a key role in producing all Hippo Press publications between from 2003 to 2007, including execution decisions, strategies and problem solving.

Freelance ad building and changes for regional newspapers

Responsible for file management using Microsoft Excel• Office assistant duties including courier service, bank deposits, correspondence management.