Jason Mcintosh Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

I lead teams of writers to write and maintain the documentation of Google Cloud database products, including Spanner and AlloyDB.I work with project teams and organizational leadership to plan and prioritize documentation projects, with a focus on covering frequent launches of new features.

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• Co-founded a charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit digital arts organization
• Oversaw IFTF’s various committees and programs, and planned the organization’s upcoming goals and projects
• Provided ongoing technological leadership to the organization and its various programsWrote and published annual financial transparency reports
• Led a research team to measure the accessibility of interaction fiction platforms, writing the final report of its conclusions and recommendations

• Doing business as "Appleseed Software Consulting", I have provided technological consultation and leadership to a number of companies and nonprofitsWhile consulting, I designed, implemented, and delivered:
• Improvements and extensions to Oxford University Press's account management system
• A reservation system, with both customer-facing and point-of-sale components, for Bay State Cruise Company in Boston
• A digital-archive cataloguing tool for Tufts University
• Quality-assurance leadership for "Transcendence: Origins", a narrative-game prologue to the Warner Brothers motion picture "Transcendence"
• A number of web-based cataloguing and search tools for the Maine Historical Society

• Creating improvements to the Perl programming language's official documentation, funded by grants from The Perl Foundation; this includes drafting a documentation style guide, and defining a standing documentation team.
• Led a qualitative research team to measure the accessibility of interaction fiction platforms, writing the final report of its conclusions and recommendations
• Have written freelance articles for various online publications, including Linode.com, Opensource.com, and O'Reilly Media's websites (see for full portfolio)
• Co-authored the books "Perl and XML" and "Mac OS X in a Nutshell", published by O'Reilly Media

This work took a few different forms:I guest-lectured on games studies in venues ranging from online courses on games education to MIT classes in comparative media studies.During the fall 2011 semester, I worked in this capacity as an adjunct lecturer at Northeastern University's Creative Industries program. I taught the lab counterpart to Brian Sullivan's.

• Founded and led a startup focusing on the study, critique, and improvement of online multiplayer games
• Organized seed-round fundraising and managed investor relationships
• Launched Volity, an open platform for multiplayer casual games
• Launched Planbeast, a service that helped users of existing online games find players with similar interests and schedule times to play together

• Developed ChemBank, a web-based application that allowed chemists and biologists to store, review, and analyze the results of high-throughput screening experiments

I maintained and created software that helped the company publish its books, both in print and in its more recent strides to publish online, with XML as the vehicle of choice in all cases. My work environment was primarily Perl on Unix.My largest project was a bundle of Perl modules and programs that converted DocBook XML documents to Adobe FrameMaker.

I helped develop and maintain a variety of software, largely web-based applications, for use both in house and by MINT's customers. Tools used for all projects were almost exclusively the Perl programming language and the SQL database standard as implemented by MySQL.I was responsible for the development of MINT's first attempts at online commerce, as well.

News Clerk at the Bangor Daily News. Assisted editors and writers on production evenings by writing cutlines, researching names, sizing photographs, and running courier duties and other odd tasks.

City Editor for the University of Maine’s semi-weekly, student-run newspaper, the Maine Campus. Was responsible for each issue’s local news content, and recruiting, supervising and giving assignments to the paper’s staff writers.

News Editor for the Maine Campus. Used Macs to design the layout of each issue’s front page and news sections, write headlines and cutlines, and select and edit stories from wire services to use in each issue. Also trained, over time, five other Campus editors on layout for their respective sections.

Consulting Assistant with UMaine’s “MacAct” program, which leased Macintosh computers to on-campus students. Installed Macs in dormitory rooms each September and spent the rest of the academic year as a full-time system and network use instructor and consultant for the program’s users.