Philip Regan

Current

Board of Directors – Treasurer at Association of REALbasic Developers
Owner at O&C Software
Manager of Media Services at Jones and Bartlett Publishers

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Past

Digital Asset Manager at Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Production Services Manager at Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Digital Prepress Specialist at Compset

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Education

University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Art Institute of Boston
Grossmont College

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Connections

47 connections

Industry

Publishing

Websites

Philip Regan’s Summary

Philip Regan’s Specialties:

Applications:
QuarkXpress from v3 onward, Adobe Creative Suite Professional from v1 onward, most Pre-CS version Adobe applications, Microsoft Office v.X–2004, BBEdit, Filemaker Pro,

Programming and markup languages:
Applescript, REALbasic from v5.5 onward, Objective-C using the Cocoa framework, XML, XSD, XSLT, HTML, CSS.

Philip Regan’s Experience

Board of Directors – Treasurer

Association of REALbasic Developers

(Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Owner

O&C Software

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

At O&C Software, we create software that we have found useful for ourselves and hope our customers do, too. We believe we have a responsibility to provide our registered users with a good user experience in design, functionality, and helping them to achieve their goals.
Manager of Media Services

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

(Publishing industry)

April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)

Currently managing a group responsible for the following:
-All digital asset management responsibilities described below.
-Work closely with the Design Manager on the schedules for covers and small marketing pieces created in Media Services.
-Creation and support for CD-ROM, Web-based, and handheld device-based products.
-Composition of select 1- and 2-color main texts and ancillaries.
Research and advise on various publishing topics including prepress, asset management and distribution, hardware and software purchases.
Create, maintain, and update certain production processes as needed.
Successfully launched, implemented, and maintain MediaBank to better manage the company’s vast archive of digital assets including a comprehensive digital asset distribution policy that protected our copyrights and rights managed assets.
Created automation tools that decreased the production time of all the ancillaries created in Media Services by 80% while dramatically reducing errors.
Digital Asset Manager

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

April 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 1 month)

• Responsible for all management of the company’s digital assets.
o Provided timely prepress and Mac technical support to all departments in all phases of production.
o Interfaced with colleges and disabled students to provide timely access to accessible files.
o Researched and advised on software and hardware purchasing decisions.
• Created standard naming and file building conventions with the cooperation of the Production and Editorial departments for use by both in-house groups and outside vendors.
• Created and enforced company-wide policy concerning accessible files for disabled students with the cooperation of multiple departments within the company and several colleges around the country.
Production Services Manager

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

January 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 4 months)

• Responsible for design, development and layout of covers, marketing materials, packaging, ancillary materials, as well as interfaces for web and CD-ROM products.
• Worked directly with Production and Media Services staff to create and maintain consistently fast-paced production schedules.
• Provideed timely prepress technical support, as well as Mac software and hardware technical support, to all of Production and Editorial.
• Preflighted and processed all book files utilizing application files and PDF prior to transmission to print and prepress vendors.
• Interfaceed with multimedia vendors such as Metatext to develop new XML-based publishing initiatives.
• Researched and advised on software and hardware purchasing decisions.
• Awarded recognition for cover design by Bookbuilders of Boston, February, 2002.
Digital Prepress Specialist

Compset

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

December 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 1 month)

• Duties ranged widely from production and operations management to prepress support.
• Created a process to comprehensively assess and report digital and physical artworks’ suitability to be printed that had minimal or no impact on production schedules.