Curtis Frye is a freelance writer from Portland, Oregon. He is the author of the Microsoft Press® title Microsoft Excel 2000 Step by Step and Microsoft Access 2000 Step by Step Courseware Expert Skills Student Guide, IDG/Maran’s Master Access 2000 Visually, and Active-Education’s Introduction to ASP, as well as three online courses for DigitalThink (Excel 2000: Data Formatting and Customization, Excel 2000: Data Analysis and Dissemination, and Advanced Database Design). He was also a major contributor to Eric and Deborah Ray’s Microsoft Access 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart, from Peachpit Press, and writes The Interoperability Corner, a monthly column for Jerry Olsen’s All About Microsoft Word newsletter.
Curt’s academic and policy-writing ventures include sole authorship of Privacy-Enhanced Business (Quorum Books); lead authorship of The State of Web Commerce (a 1997 market research report from O’Reilly & Associates); a chapter on Internet commerce in Osborne’s Internet: The Complete Reference, Millennium Edition; and an article on cryptography policy titled “Regulated Privacy” in the premiere issue of Infobahn magazine. He is also the editor and lead reviewer for Technology & Society Book Reviews (http://www.techsoc.com/).
Before beginning his writing career in June 1995, Curt spent four years with The MITRE Corporation as a defense trade analyst and one year as Director of Sales and Marketing for Digital Gateway Systems, an Internet service provider. Curt graduated from Syracuse University in 1990 with an honors degree in political science. When he’s not writing, Curt is a professional improvisational comedian with ComedySportz.
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