Marina Michaels is a Senior Development Editor at Manning Publications Co.. She possess expertise in technical writing, framemaker, technical documentation, editing, online help and 29 more skills. She is proficient in Intermediate Japanese （日本語をまだ勉強しています）. Colleagues describe her as "Marina was my development editor during the creation, redaction, and publication of my "Spark in Action, second edition" book. She was here when I had issues. She was here with advice. She was tough on me (yeah, you cannot really slack off) but instrumental in the success of this project. Thanks to her, "Spark in Action, second edition" is the best-rated Apache Spark book on Amazon. I almost want to start another book to work with Marina again. I miss her and highly recommend her. " and "Marina indexed the user manuals I created at Nanometrics, and did a stellar job with organizing and indexing using the Framemaker plugins provided for her to complete the task. She was professional and dedicated."