Gabe Goldberg
Gabriel Goldberg is a consultant, writer, and editor, specializing in diverse network and enterprise computing environments. He edited and wrote an IBM technology magazine and contributes to publications such as z/Journal and the Washington Post. He's written for EEI Communications' Editorial Eye newsletter, Computer Economics' newsletter, and many other trade publications.
He previously worked for a small software company, most recently as Vice President of Technology and Business Development, responsible at various times for product planning, evolution, and development, along with documentation and customer support. He managed and wrote the company newsletter read by more than 20,000 subscribers around the world, and has reviewed Web sites for several publications.
He also worked in the leading-edge data center of a not-for-profit federally chartered consulting organization where he developed widely used software tools which aided other installations' mainframe use; before that he designed and developed operating systems at IBM.
Mr. Goldberg has consulted for clients such as The World Bank, The University of California, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He has performed Internet research, consulting, and writing, as well as software and hardware marketing consulting. He has written/edited industry/vendor white papers and dozens of trade publication articles, and co-edited and wrote "The REXX Handbook", "The VM/ESA Systems Handbook", and "The VM/ESA Users and Applications Handbook", all published by McGraw-Hill. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
He co-hosted America Online's advanced Internet forum called "Pro's Corner", which offered multiple media for disseminating and retrieving Internet information and resources, including message (bulletin) boards, downloadable software, and on-line real-time interactive chats.
Mr. Goldberg supports many national and local user groups. He served as Director of (Meeting) Programs for the 1500-member Washington, DC-area Capital PC User Group, one of the oldest and largest PC user groups in the United States, in which he organized and chaired the Internet SIG (special interest group). He belongs to the User Support Team for CPCUG's domain, cpcug.org, and CPCUG's Board Of Directors. He was a founding member and director of several local user groups, and held management jobs in a major national IBM user group. He has given hundreds of presentations to these and other groups and conferences. His presentation regarding on-line sources of information" won a best-session award. He has presented "How the Internet and World Wide Web Will Change How Knowledge Workers Work and Communicate" and "Why and How Individuals and Organizations Should Create Web Pages". He has facilitated and helped exploit donations of commercial hardware and software to user groups.
Mr. Goldberg evangelizes for user groups and the Internet -- believing that user groups can be an antidote to feeling alone with technical activities, challenges, problems, and triumphs, and that the Internet is both the largest virtual user group and an excellent antidote to feeling alone, not to mention a way of increasing personal and organizational productivity!