Mark Shellenberger

Current

Consulting Content Engineer at Lexis Nexis
Consultant, President, Owner at Manorfield Consulting, LLC

Past

Full-Text Developer at American Psychological Association
Resident Director at Capitol College

Education

University of Maryland University College
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Muhlenberg College

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Connections

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Industry

Publishing

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Mark Shellenberger’s Summary

I use XML related technologies to advance the mission of publishing companies. I currently work with industry leaders in a DTD analysis and conversion project for a major scientific journal company and provide XSL-FO applications for amajor pharmaceutical company.

I also work with other XML consulting firms and smaller newsletter/journal publishers to advance their use of XML for both archive and reuse.

I have worked in the electronic media area of scientific journal publishing for the past 9 years. I began work using SGML and was an integral team member in the conversion to XML of a previous employers' entire journal catalog.

I have advanced training and experience using both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 as well as XQuery. I have training and experience employing XSL-FO to create print-ready documents from XML. My knowledge and practical use of the NLM/NCBI suite of DTDs approaches an expert level and I am familiar with many other proprietary publishing DTDs.

I believe that XML exposes the possibilities of your data. If you are still using Word, text, or relational databases there is a whole universe of opportunity waiting in the markup world.

Mark Shellenberger’s Specialties:

XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery, XSL-FO, oXygen, XMetal, NLM DTD, NCBI DTD, SGML DTD, XML DTD, RelaxNG,

Mark Shellenberger’s Experience

Consulting Content Engineer

Lexis Nexis

(Public Company; RUK; Publishing industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Consultant, President, Owner

Manorfield Consulting, LLC

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Using XML-related technologies I work with companies to convert their existing text, Word, PDF, SGML, and/or XML documents to a desired XML or other format. I am currently doing DTD analysis and XSLT stylesheet creation for a major XML consulting firm.

I have advanced experience with both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 as well as XQuery 1.0. I develop conversions from XML to PDF using XSL-FO.

My consulting focus is within the scientific journal publishing community. I am well versed in the NLM/NCBI XML DTD and numerous proprietary DTDs.
Full-Text Developer

American Psychological Association

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

August 1999 — August 2006 (7 years 1 month)

Integral part of the team that moved APA PsycArticles and APA PsycCritiques to XML. Team member during the design phase of the XML DTD, created the original XSLT stylesheet pipeline to convert existing SGML to XML, and provided maintenance of the process until leaving employment with APA in 2006.

Since this conversion occured pre-XSLT 2.0, I used Perl and Python scripting to facilitate the conversion of SGML to a well-formed XML format that was then converted through XSLT 1.0 templates.

In addition I completed a proof-of-concept Word-to-XML conversion for a fast editing pipeline while at APA. The output available from this pipeline included XML, HTML, and PDF.
Resident Director

Capitol College

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

August 1997 — July 1998 (1 year )

Director of Housing and Residence Life for small apartment complex located on site of college. Supervised a staff of student Resident Assistants and supported the Director of Student Activities.

Mark Shellenberger’s Education

University of Maryland University College

B.S. , Computer Science and information Technology , 2000 — 2006
West Chester University of Pennsylvania

MS , Counseling Psychology In Higher Education , 1994 — 1997

Activities and Societies:

Graduate Assistant for Residence Life and Housing
Muhlenberg College

BA , Psychology , 1990 — 1994

Activities and Societies:

Cross Country Team