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 About
The Author
Larry and his wife grew up near
Minneapolis, Minnesota. For the past 20 years, he has been
living in a small town near Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife
and 3 (now grown up) children.
Larry has a highly eclectic
background. Out of high school he attended and graduated from
an automotive trade school. He went to work for a Chevrolet
car dealership where he apprenticed and became a journeyman
auto mechanic.
Bored with auto mechanics, he went
back to school to learn electronics where he earned an
electronics degree with a computer systems major. He graduated
with honors.
General Electric – Medical Systems
Group, hired him out of electronics school. He spent the next
7 years “in the field” installing and repairing medical
equipment (C.A.T Scanners, vascular x-ray equipment, patient
monitoring systems). He spent several of those years working
primarily in the demanding position of GE liaison for Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Due to his long working hours, his
kids didn’t get to see their dad very often. To rectify the
situation, he took a job transfer to GE Medical Corporate
where he worked in Field Service Development Engineering. He
developed and wrote service manuals that described
installation and setup procedures. He then took an internal
promotion to Systems Engineering where he developed system
setup procedures and then wrote system design specifications
to introduce his ideas into new x-ray equipment
designs.
Seeing there was a global need for
better technical documentation, Larry found a business partner
and started a technical documentation company they named
Docu-Net. This company grew very fast and earned position
number 456 on the 1993 Inc 500 list – a list composed by Inc.
Magazine of the 500 fastest growing, privately held, companies
in the United States.
Larry and his partner sold Docu-Net
at the end of 1999 to a public company called Interleaf.
Interleaf was then sold to a company called
Broadvision.
After selling the company he has
been working at several “work from home” ventures. Since he
has been writing and/or selling books for more than 20 years,
he decided to write this “how-to” book leveraging what he has
learned about this business.
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