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Jonathan E. Sisk Biography and Bibliography

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Jon Sisk's career in the technology sector began with programming COBOL and BASIC at Virginia Commonwealth University. From there Jon studied RPG-II on the System 32, then formed his first company which provided software for the IBM 5110, the precursor to the PC (Model 5150).

Ultimately, that lead him to a company who developed applications for the Medical Industry on the Microdata REALITY platform. He was immediately hired by the Medical Application company, quickly got up to speed on REALITY, and was soon after scouted by the maker of the platform.

His career took a big leap when he was invited to join to join the National Support Group of Microdata Corporation, whose product, Reality was the first commercial implementation of the Pick Operating System.

After two busy years in tech support, writing internal applications still in use today, and speaking at User Groups all over the world, Jon left Microdata to form JES & Associates, Inc. (jes.com)

In his first endeavor as an independent he wrote the first commercial book, " The Reality Pocket Guide".

JES became the first independent training organization.

Dick Pick, the iconoclastic inventor and namesake of the Pick OS, enlisted Jon to write what would become his most famous book, "The Pick Pocket Guide".

Adapting material from his training courses, Jon and co-author Steve VanArsdale were signed by Hayden Book Co. to write the first commercial Pick textbook to appear on retail shelves, "Exploring the Pick Operating System".

He followed that up with a solo effort and the first textbook dedicated to the Pick/BASIC programming language, "Pick/BASIC: A Programmer's Guide". This book is still available today as a free download.

Over the following decade, Jon was the Series Editor of " The Pick Library" for Tab Books, a division of McGraw-Hill.

A prolific writer, Jon's articles and columns appeared in many industry publications, including Byte Magazine, PickWorld, International Spectrum, Spectrum Tech Digest, RDBM Computing, IPUA Journal, Computing News & Review and Engineering Enterprise.

Dick Pick commissioned Jon to develop his most epic work, "Encyclopedia Pick (EPick)" an all-encompassing document that covered every single unique subject in the Pick database. He wrote and produced the towering, 1500 page document and as a by-product released it as an on-line Help system. Like an early Wiki, it provided hyperlinks to related topics, contained working examples, allowed collabarative contributions, and could be output directly to a printed encyclopedia with a single click, and all of this was years before the Web was invented.

In March of 2000, Jon was part of the team that purchased Pick Systems (the company), now called Tiger Logic (NASDAQ: TIGR). He joined the company as vice-president of Training & Education.

From there Jon returned to JES and over the following years has been involved with a variety of technical sectors and startups, from Information Security to Fifth-generation application generators. He is co-developer and chief Editor for the first (and only) Multi-Value based Wiki.

JES is now conducting training with a modern spin on it, by offering online 1 on 1 training on a wide variety of topics all custom made for each client.

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Jonathan E. Sisk Bibliography

 

The Pick Library

 

Edited by Jon Sisk

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