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Jeffrey McManus has spent nearly a decade as a consultant, developer, and writer. He has managed platform businesses and developer relations for two iconic internet businesses, eBay and Yahoo!. He was eBay's first technology evangelist and led eBay's platform evangelism team during the period 2003-2005 when eBay was opening its web services platform to third parties. He also championed new technologies within the company, such as corporate blogging, RSS, wikis and open source, creating eBay's first open source developer community.

At Yahoo! Jeffrey co-founded and led the Developer Network team, which opened Yahoo! properties to innovation by third-party developers and established the company as a platform leader in less than a year's time. He and his team also created Yahoo! Gallery, a site that enables third-party developers to share their applications and mash-ups with Yahoo! users.

Jeffrey has also served as a product manager and developer relations specialist at startups such as Kenamea. He has written or co-written six books on technology including the best-selling Database Access with Visual Basic series. He frequently speaks to corporate groups on both strategic and tactical issues pertaining to emerging technologies. As a consultant, he has engaged with stealth-mode startups, established small businesses, local and federal government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America, Dell, Intel, Eli Lilly, Duke Energy, Pfizer, SBC, Sears Roebuck, and many others.

In addition to consulting, speaking and writing, Jeffrey also developed and manages the consumer document-sharing site Approver.com.

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