
Head of R&D at Digital Publishing Solutions Inc.
Greater Boston Area

Head of R&D at Digital Publishing Solutions Inc.
Greater Boston Area
.net 2.0 & 3.0, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Guidance Automation, Web Service Software Factory, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, Microsoft Sharepoint Portal 2003, XML, XSL, Xyenterprise XML Professional Publisher, C#, Perl, Web design, VB.net, Web services, Windows Services, database design
(Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)
March 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 11 months)
Developed a complete job tracking application incorporating
workflow, reporting, and web access, from start to finish. Replaced
current Microsoft Access single table database with a completely
redesigned Microsoft SQL server relational database as the
backend. Created numerous reporting scripts written in Perl and
Microsoft Access. Created several web interfaces to allow
production staff to easily view all current work in progress.
Developed multiple scripts to convert Microsoft Word and Excel
files to 90% perfect typeset document in XyEnterprise’s XPP
publishing application.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1998 — July 2003 (4 years 10 months)
Worked as an integral member of the software development team
that designed, developed and supported the XyEnterprise
Content@ Content Management product. A product designed to
support the authoring, editing, review and workflow of structured
(XML/SGML) and unstructured documents and content.
Content@ is a multi-tiered product consisting of a database, Server Portal, APIs, and client tiers.
• Working closely with Product Management and select
customers to design and develop a thin client (HTML) user
interface. Participated in complete development cycle including
requirements gathering, functional specification development
and scheduling, design, development, implementation and
delivery. Technologies JAVA, JSP, XML, XSL, CSS and HTML
• Designed, developed and supported a Link Management Cross
Reference module, which included Database, Server Portal, API
and User Interface development. Technologies: C/C++, SQL,
Microsoft Foundation Classes
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — May 1998 (4 years 5 months)
Designed, installed and maintained entire corporate network
infrastructure. Final result utilized multiple Novell, NT and Data
General Unix servers across a sub-netted Ethernet, 10/100 BaseT
network. This process included installing all internal and external
wiring. Implemented company’s first Internet/Intranet servers.
This entailed researching all components for installing an Internet
site, including software, hardware and service provider solutions to
allow seamless integration into existing network structure.
Developed, documented and implemented installations plan for
Client-Server document storage and retrieval software/hardware
environment. Installed software and hardware at multiple
customer locations. Trained users on software and computers.
1989 — 1993