Rev Mentor

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The Mentoring program is essentially Jerry working directly with you and/or your team. Jerry will structure your "mentorials" (mentoring sessions, lessons, and other activities) based on his initial assessment of your needs — using strategies, tools, and procedures like:

• Screen sharing
• Conference calls
• Lesson plans
• Frameworks
• Code Reviews

Typical deliverables based on your needs could include . . .

• Initial Assessment (with ball-park budget)
• Current Code Analysis
• Workflow Recommendations
• User Interface Audit
• Review of Multi-platform Issues
• Optimal use of menu bars and short cut keys
• Framework Recommendations
• Code Stubs

The end result of all this goodness and elbow grease?

Assuming your goal is a completed app, you'll have on your desktop an executable that will run on Windows (XP/Vista), Mac (OS X) and/or Linux. It will be built to best practices with excellent coding standards. You will be in possession of an ASSET that can be deployed to users inside your company — or, sold to either end-users or saavy investors looking to make a killing in the lucrative cross-platform application marketplace.

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Fees:

• When we do strategic work for corporations and funded startups the rate is $200 an hour. Someone using this level of mentoring would not need to use much of it. It is highly-leveraged work on strategy, workflow, design. Not much coding.
• That same strategic mentoring is made available at half the cost ($100/hr) if the project is not funded. You would need to make visible our participation in the project. This helps us get more mentoring work.
• Longer term mentoring where we write some basic code to get you or your developer pointed in the right direction is $85/hr.
• We had a monthly program at one time. That has been free for some time now. You just watch/read the lessons on this site and subscribe via Posterous or Twitter to keep up.

Booking Time:

• Mentoring time is purchased in 1-hour blocks, and pre-paid, via PayPal.
• CLICK THIS LINK to submit a Request for Personal Mentoring. In the body of the email, be sure to describe your mentoring needs.
• When we receive your request, we'll email you our Standard Mentorial Agreement, listing these terms and our recommended and required software for long-distance learning — along with a PayPal link for you to purchase one or more 1-hour blocks.

Scheduling Procedures and Minimums:

• You must purchase at least one 1-hour block before mentoring services can begin.
• When you complete your PayPal purchase, your time will be booked.
• Once you've scheduled a mentorial, you'll receive an email confirmation that includes the telephone number to call on the day and hour(s) that you have pre-booked.
• Your pre-paid fee is NON-REFUNDABLE – so, be sure to call-in during your scheduled time (even if you are late). Jerry Daniels will be available for the entire period that you have booked.

Ongoing Services:

• After your pre-paid blocks are completed, if you wish to continue services, email us to purchase more time.
• You should schedule your pre-paid time as soon as possible. Mentoring time not used after 30 days through no fault of Rev Mentor is forfeited.

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Technologist / Entrepreneur / Mentor

As show here, Jerry keeps a separate Field Notes notebook for each mentoring client. Its pages are gridded, making it easier to include drawings and diagrams among text notes.

Work - I write desktop apps and mentor software developers who use Revolution.

tRev - My editor for Revolution application development environment.

tText - My text edtior that you can extend with for Rev plugins.

Home - I am keenly interested in news, gadgets, health and, of course, my family.

Food - My healthy eating site.

Artwork - Mary Jane Mara's (this is my wife) online portrait studio.

Art Life - Mary Jane's blog of art commentary, observation and technique.

Meals - Mary Jane's site of cool, low-cal recipes.

Current Activities

• Develops software for Mac, Linux and Windows desktops using Revolution.
• Sells his own software: tText Editor extensible text editor, tRev Editor productivity tool for Revolution developers.
• Works on select client projects as developer, designer or mentor.
• Donates time, creativity and money to the Red Star Foundation.
• Writes about technology, design and software development right here.

Current Employment

• 2001: President, Chief Design Officer of Daniels & Mara, Austin, Texas, USA
• 2008: Host of Rev Mentor
• 2009: Host of Rev Editor

Current Tools & Toys

Educational Background

• 1966: High School Diploma, Honor Society from Lindbergh Senior High, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
• 1970: Two years of General Studies curriculum and one year of Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science with R. Buckminster Fuller at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, USA.
• 1976: Bachelor of Science in the study of Creative Intelligence and Vedic Science from MERU Research University at Seelisberg, Switzerland.

Work Background

• 1960: PGA caddy, Sunset Country Club, St. Louis, USA.
• 1963: Shipping Clerk, City Refrigeration, St. Louis, USA.
• 1968: Assistant Manager, Wharfside Imports in Urbana, Illinois, USA.
• 1970: Janitor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA.
• 1974: Area Coordinator for World Plan Excecutive Council for Rocky Mountain Area, USA.
• 1978: President of ICOR Information Brokerage and Marketing Research in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
• 1985: Founder of the Mac Underground headquartered in Fairfield, Iowa, USA.
• 1987: Creator of MacWEEK (electronic version)
• 1987: First Mac the Knife for MacWEEK in San Francisco, USA (paper version)
• 1988: Columnist for Macazine in Austin, Texas, USA
• 1988: Developer for STAX in Austin, Texas, USA
• 1989: Co-writer of Applied HyperCard and Applied HyperTalk published by Simon & Schuster
• 1990: Technical Lead for POS project at GE Aerospace, King or Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
• 1995: Project Manager, Nortel Systems, Richardson, Texas Office
• 1998: Consulting Manager for Stonebridge Technologies, Austin Office
• 2000: Director of Application Development, Evercom Systems, Irving, Texas, USA

Lineage

• Born on November 23, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Son of Loretta and Jim Daniels
• Brother of Jon and Jeff Daniels
• Married on March 28, 1973, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
• Husband of Mary Jane Mara
• Father of Rose Daniels Grimmett and Joe Daniels
• Lives near Driftwood just outside Austin, Texas, USA

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