Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire

Jeffrey’s insights into the open source value proposition as it benefits business, government and the “real world” beyond the web have made him a sought after speaker at technology and business events. In 2014, he already has presented at the Digital & Social Marketing Masterclass on Tour in Dublin and has given a keynote address at DrupalSouth in Wellington, New Zealand. Further speaking engagements this year will take him to Hungary, The Netherlands, Texas, Poland, Sweden, Australia, and elsewhere.

Jeffrey boosted Acquia's reputation as an active, beneficial member of the Drupal open source community, communicating the company's open source roots and contributions in a variety of channels. He created new speaking, sponsorship, and other opportunities for Acquia and was an external advocate for the Drupal project. He helped the growth and success of open source solutions by coaching service providers and end-users in the open source value proposition.

18th employee at Acquia (VC-backed, high growth startup, now 450-strong). As Senior Writer, he drew on his 10 years of experience as a writer and translator and his knowledge of Drupal and web technology. - Documentation (creation/maintenance) for all Acquia products and services, and for the open source content management system Drupal. - Tested, implemented and maintained infrastructure to create, publish, and maintain documentation in multiple formats: HTML, PDF, version control.

Drupal service provider, offering basic Drupal, web, and technical consulting. Projects included: - Website builds - Piecework including front-end themeing, information architecture, configuration, building community infrastructure into large existing site. - Drupal theme creation

Translations (German/Italian to English) including mission-critical, detailed technical texts, and legal compliance documentation. Writing tasks including articles and interviews for a variety of corporate communications materials for multiple target audiences.

Translated and subtitled more than 70 films per year for cinema/DVD release, film festivals (including Venice, Cannes, Berlin), and television (German/Italian to English). Language consultant for German translations of English-language films, including dialect, accent, idiom, joke, lyric, rhyme explanations and solutions. Script consultant for pan-European film projects.