Patrick Sean Barry - Bio
Born the second son of a second son, in Long Branch, New Jersey, Barry grew up in a devout Irish Catholic family in a small town outside Boston, Massachusetts, where his Boy Scout Master, Arthur Adams, was a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams. An honors graduate of Amherst College, two themes of Barry’s life have been to travel as much as possible and to face his personal fears. His journeys have taken him to experience sunrise atop Mount Fuji, Japan; protests outside the American Embassy in Beijing; being thrown off a horse and breaking three ribs while riding alone in the high country of Wyoming, body surfing in three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific & Indian Ocean), scuba diving with white tipped sharks off Kauai, Hawaii and night scuba diving with sea lions off Santa Barbara Island in California; having his Land Rover charged by a rogue elephant in Kruger Game Park in South Africa; experiencing live gunfire of battle in the streets of Guatemala City, exploring numerous Maya pyramids of the Yucatan, surveying the ruins of a medieval castle in the back country of France, as well as finding a precious gold ring at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea off Croatia. It’s all true.
Barry holds a fourth degree black belt in Go Soku Ryu karate and trained at the World Headquarters of the International Karate Association, where he also received his third degree black belt in Toshin Ryu―the study of Japanese traditional weapons―with a special focus on the iaido applications of the katana (Japanese Sword). He’s an emeritus member of the Hole in the Wall Gang, a club honoring the Western Cowboy tradition, who rides in at the Hole in the Wall country of Wyoming every year, having ridden there for ten years. Sports have always been part of his relationship with life, and he has been on swim, track, basketball, water polo, and football teams, and played A Team rugby at Amherst. He is currently a member of the Conjeo Fencing Club with his son, where they train with a special focus on foil and épée.
Before, and concurrent with his professional writing career, his jobs have ranged from house painter, life guard, assistant truck driver, shipping and receiving clerk, teacher of English as a foreign language (in Japan), video tape editor, feature film martial arts consultant, telephone salesman, tour operator associate, messenger-driver, production assistant, production coordinator, second assistant director and production manager in film production, as well as being narration voice talent for infomercials.
His first professional writing assignment was for the Sherlock Holmes Radio Theater, and he has written for animation, television and film, with a spanning over twenty years. His produced television credits in include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beast Wars, and War of the Worlds. He also wrote a range of projects for location based entertainment including Universal Studio Tour's Star Trek Attraction, the Chicago’s Adler Planetarium Tour of the Universe, as well as the Davy Crockett one man show Ridin’ into the Storm for the Texas State History Museum. Barry has also written for major computer games including and Electronic Arts’ Command & Conquer and Lands of Lore.
Before, and concurrent with his professional writing career, his jobs have ranged from house painter, life guard, assistant truck driver, shipping and receiving clerk, teacher of English as a foreign language (in Japan), video tape editor, feature film martial arts consultant, telephone salesman, tour operator associate, messenger-driver, production assistant, production coordinator, second assistant director and production manager in film production, as well as being narration voice talent for infomercials.
His first professional writing assignment was for the Sherlock Holmes Radio Theater, and he has written for animation, television and film, with a spanning over twenty years. His produced television credits in include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beast Wars, and War of the Worlds. He also wrote a range of projects for location based entertainment including Universal Studio Tour's Star Trek Attraction, the Chicago’s Adler Planetarium Tour of the Universe, as well as the Davy Crockett one man show Ridin’ into the Storm for the Texas State History Museum. Barry has also written for major computer games including and Electronic Arts’ Command & Conquer and Lands of Lore.
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Barry also has extensive professional writing credits―and worked as a content development consultant―outside of the creative field. This includes developing various computer-based management training courses, as well as serving as a marketing consultant in the automotive industry. Over the course of three years, Barry worked as an editor and author for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill where he wrote three ten-chapter text workbooks on professional communications (on Technical Communications, Global Communications and Dynamic Listening). He has also written for magazines ranging from technology publications to martial arts magazines. For the last eleven years he has worked for a global communications technology company where most recently he has worked as a Solutions Marketing Manager . He has also served for years as President of the company’s International Toastmasters public speaking club, having competed in and won numerous speech competitions. Barry lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.
