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Boston, MA
United States

Hello there. 

Welcome to me. Or, more specifically, my personal website. Feel free to poke around and take a look at my clips, as well as find out a little more about who I am.

I'm currently a metro reporter at the Boston Globe. During my time at the Globe I've covered a wide range of stories, including the Boston Marathon bombings, web-programmer and activist Aaron Swartz's death, and Occupy Boston. I've also written and edited for the now-defunct online publication The Next Great Generation, and have written a few in-depth video game reviews for Blast Magazine. In my spare time, I also work as a specialist at Apple.

As Hunter S. Thompson so eloquently wrote, "Buy the ticket, take the ride..."

Instructional PDFs

 

Manuals & Guides

While at Toast, Derek created numerous job-aids and PDFs, including instructional manuals for the company’s hardware. Select the images below to check out the full guides.

These guides were created with the Adobe Creative Suite.

 

Toast Tap Installation Guide

This guide was created for Toast’s contactless payment hardware, meaning guests at a restaurant could pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and tap cards (as well as the standard swipe and dip methods). The manual was printed and shipped with the hardware. It was also available online for download.

TP200 Toast printer quick start Guide

This Quick Start Guide was a single fold, four page setup manual for the Toast printer. This shipped inside the printer packaging and was available for download online. Select the pages below to get a closer look.

Toast Tap Direct Attach Install
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The Toast Tap hardware also came in a direct attach format, meaning it could directly plug into a terminal as a card reader. This was available online for download. Select the image to the right to get a closer look.

Toast Hardware installation guide

This guide was a collaborative effort. Myself and two other Toast Education teammates built up this guide from the ground up, partnering with the Toast hardware, product, and marketing teams to make it possible.

The manual goes over numerous combinations of different pieces of new hardware options. It was printed and shipped with the products when it was released in 2020. It was also available for download on the Toast knowledge base.