Right out of UC Santa Barbara, I spent 15 thrilling years in ad agency creative departments as a copywriter or creative director. Focusing on tech accounts, I worked in Los Angeles, Orange County, Boston, and Silicon Valley (Alcatel, IBM, National Semi, Philips, Xerox).

As a twentysomething–thritywhatever, I concepted and wrote print ads for Fortune, Forbes, the Wall St. Journal, Business Week, and scads of tech biz magazines.

For the last 15 years, I’ve been a freelance web writer (Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, HP, Intuit) in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. I covered Java technology for its creator, Sun, from 1997 to 2005 and wrote 114 front-page feature articles about Java software for java.sun.com. Then I moved over to Sun.com to write about all of their products for four more years. Cisco has been my main writing client for three years.

In round numbers, I’ve written about 1000 web pages, 700 print ads, 300 glossy brochures, 100 data sheets, and one book, “Hello World(s)!”– From Code to Culture: A 10 Year Celebration of Java Technology.

For Large Tech Websites – Web Writing: Products & Solutions, Feature Articles, Interviews, Promos

For Small Businesses – Web Site Copy & Visuals from Scratch, or just a light SEO Rewrite & Uplift, Keyword Research, Web Analytics/Monitoring, Audience Discovery, Competitive Intelligence

For Web Designers – Need a web-savvy conceptual writer? Or just a “fluff&fold” on the client’s copy? Lots of creative h1/h2 options? Easy. I can work within your layouts and revs online, do photo searches, find resources and missing info, as well as offer site traffic monitoring/optimization after deployment.

Learning: Security Analytics, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript coding, and Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Master Collection

My brother, father, two uncles, grandfather and even great-grandfather were all engineers. Maybe that’s why I’ve spent my entire adult life writing about the magic of technology. My wife, Stephanie, is my reward.

jon@jonbyous.com

Over the Years

It has also been my pleasure to help launch or promote these technologies:
CMOS chips (1980)
Networked PCs (1982)
CAE (1983)
Mobile & laptop computing (1984)
Office automation (1988)
ASIC chips (1990)
Client/server application development and computing (1991-94)
LAN/WANs, desktop security (1995)
Cisco routers (1996)
Internet infrastructure (1997)
Y2K remediation (1998)
Java technology: ME, SE, J2EE (1997-2005)
Internet security software (2000)
Wireless connectivity (2001)
RFID (2003)
Mobile phone context and presence, Web services, SOA (2004)
Java technology 10th anniversary book: Hello World(s)!: Code to Culture (2005)
Sun Solaris 10 Operating System (2006)
Green 32-thread 4-processor ultra-low power x32/x64 servers (2006)
32/64-core x64 servers (2008-2009)
79 Cisco Collaboration products – Unified voice & video, Cius tablet, telepresence, WebEx, enterprise apps, customer collaboration (2009-Present)