Digging Up New Business: The SwiftPad Takeover: 1 (The Swiftpad Trilogy) - Softcover

Barckmann, S Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735251429 ISBN 13: 9781735251424

Publisher: Barckwords Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Today business is about eyeballs on the screen. Narcissism is the shiny object that always attracts, and today it drives the bottom line. You have to be the star in your own show, and now, with the Internet social media sensation SwiftPad, there are new episodes about you each time you connect! A new girl in the Rose City has a plan to capture the whole world's attention. She hooks up with a local pothead/Lothario to create SwiftPad, a renegade social media app that promises to convert the world's fascination with itself into billions in cash for the crew and their backers. But when a sadistic killer's handiwork is uncovered, new clues to an old crime point to Portland's IT community. He is out there, using his high-tech talent to mock efforts to catch him. More than a Tech-Thriller, Digging Up New Business: The SwiftPad Takeover is also a raffish, satiric account of how we are coping with the sweeping changes of recent decades.

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About the Author

Born and raised in the small Jersey Shore town of Barnegat NJ. Moved to North Jersey suburb at 13 (1964). Went to University of Kansas, graduated (1973), degrees in Economics and History. Worked in various capacities as laborer, heavy equipment operator, became a Land Surveyor (1977). During this period, wrote much of the backstory later incorporated into The SwiftPad Series. Worked in a Civil Engineering office, managing business. Wrote articles, grant writer of social service agency, involved in local politics, as a Progressive (Eugene Oregon). Went to China, (1984) as English teacher in Xian Medical college, The following year in Beijing teaching at Foreign Language Institute. Returned to the US (1987), married Mary Traeger, son Zach born (1988). Worked at a strip-mall Computer store, then for various companies and organizations as technical lead in various IT specialties, (networking, software development, computer security, systems management) Became a consultant with a tech start up, (2001). Retired from IBM (2014). Presently full time author

Edition details

• Publisher: Barckwords Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735251429
• ISBN 13: 9781735251424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318