D.W. Snow

David Snow worked in the computer industry for 33+ years with Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq and finally Hewlett Packard.  He is currently Chief Technology Officer for Aging Safely Inc (www.AgingSafely.com). A company that matches medically complex seniors with Long Term Care facilities in Washington State.

David has been interested the publishing technology since he learned to manually set type in high school. Early in his career, he worked for Dow Jones Publishing. He also was involved with Digital Equipment’s typesetting product line.

Long before JavaDoc was invented, Dave created the technology to semi-automatically search the 3.4 million lines of machine language code of the VMS operating system and retrieve the data structure definitions, procedure calls with their related comments and store this in a database. Then the database was formatted into the LaTeX document preparation system with graphic presentations of the data structures. After four days of CPU time, the result was a two-volume 800-page book set with a 75-page index. This book was the bible of Digital Equipment’s hardware and software support engineers while troubleshooting VMS operating system crashes.

In 2016, his wife asked him "What do I need to know to be able to write and publish an eBook?" Quickly he learned that getting good-looking eBooks and paperback books from the same source using Word was tedious. Once he discovered Literature and Latte’s Scrivener the problem was solvable.

 Scrivener to Kindle is the result of that effort.

He is now semi-retired and lives in a community east of Seattle Washington.