Brian Hogan

I work with authors to bring books from outline to production as a Development Editor and project manager, and I maintain the internal tools and production systems that authors, editors, indexers, and production staff use to create and publish books. I am the editor of the following titles: The Ray Tracer Challenge React for Real Mastering Ruby Closures Deploying with JRuby 9000 Programming Groovy 2nd Edition Fire In The Valley, Third Edition Learn To Program Minecraft Plugins, Second Edition Remote Pairing The Healthy Programmer Crafting Rails 4 Applications​ Programming Concurrency on the JVM. The Developer's Code Crafting Rails Applications iOS SDK Development The Rails View Deploying Rails​ Deploying With JRuby.

• Developed codecaster.io, a platform to help students get the most out of their software development classroom experience, and Amelius, a platform to help instructors create and share aligned course curriculum. • Developed web sites and applications for local and national businesses. • Performed accessibility audits, ensuring compliance with Section 508 and WCAG guidelines. • Created and delivered on-site and remote training courses on Ruby on Rails, HTML5, and accessibility.

• Built and managed a high performing distributed team of technical editors that produced hundreds of high quality tutorials for millions of developers. • Oversaw the integration of two content acquisitions, adding over 1000 pieces of new content to our library, resulting in increased traffic, conversions, and awareness. • Developed content strategy for new and existing content verticals aligned with product and company strategy, resulting in increased traffic and new customers year over year. • Used data to set and execute publishing goals for our team, increasing publishing output, traffic, and revenue year over year for three consecutive years. • Worked cross-functionally with internal and external partners to produce relevant and timely content to drive customer adoption, resulting in multiple high-performing pieces of content. • Coached direct reports through professional development plans and promotion plans, resulting in successful re-leveling of multiple team members. • Created DigitalOcean's first collection of interactive tutorials featuring an embedded terminal.

• Reviewed, tested, revised, and published articles from open-source software experts on the DigitalOcean community website through the Write for DOnations program, driving awareness and adoption of DigitalOcean's product offerings and contributing to revenue. • Reviewed writing samples and topic ideas from prospective authors, and worked with industry experts to identify new content opportunities. • Created automated workflows to manage virtual servers running Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and FreeBSD using Docker, Terraform, Vagrant, Ansible, and the DigitalOcean API. • Increased quality of submissions by developing a success rubric and working with authors to develop outlines to solidify the topics covered.

• Designed and delivered performance-based curriculum for courses in entry-level web development, operating systems, programming fundamentals, and agile software development concepts for eight semesters to a diverse student population using demonstrations, lectures, discussions, video tutorials, written materials, practice sessions, and online supplemental instruction. • Received nominations from students for teaching excellence awards in 2012, 2014, and 2015, and consistently scored high on student evaluations in all areas. • Facilitated well-received inservice sessions focused on teaching methods.

• Used PHP, Ruby on Rails, SQL Server, and MySQL to build robust systems to manage student registration for programs, service learning, parking services, and an emergency alert system using SMS messaging. • Managed servers for public web servers, application servers, and database servers running both Windows and Linux, handling almost one million visits per month. • Supervised and mentored student interns, guiding them on best practices in software development and testing.