Michael Boudreau

Current

• Senior Electronic Publishing Developer at University of Chicago Press

Past

• Electronic Publishing Developer at University of Chicago Press
• Electronic Projects Editor, Electronic Publishing Specialist at University of Illinois Press
• Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Hampden-Sydney College

Connections

16 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Company

Michael Boudreau’s Summary

17 years of experience in scholarly publishing, including 12 years of software development. Certified MySQL Database Administrator. Excellent diagnostic, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Michael Boudreau’s Specialties:

Database design and administration, software development, workflow analysis, usability testing.

Michael Boudreau’s Experience

• Senior Electronic Publishing Developer

  University of Chicago Press

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 2000 — Present (10 years 1 month)

  ∙ Designed and built a web-based, PHP/MySQL-driven database of book and publisher data to facilitate book reviews in scholarly journals
  ∙ Technical lead for implementation of Editorial Manager peer review system in 24 journal offices; wrote Perl programs for legacy data conversion; visited off-site editorial offices for system configuration and staff training
  ∙ Team lead for development of web-based, Perl/MySQL-driven peer review system, coordinating development, testing, and release of new features in Windows desktop and web client
  ∙ Designed, coded, and supported public Web client for peer review system, comprising 30,000+ lines of Embperl and HTML, integrated with Apache, MySQL, Zmailer, LaTeX, Adobe Distiller, and in-house production systems
  ∙ Designed HTML markup, CSS stylesheet, and JavaScript utilities for The Chicago Manual of Style Online
  ∙ Devised and conducted usability tests for The Chicago Manual of Style Online
  ∙ Designed, coded, and supported a system to generate PDF files for journal preprints, integrating commercial PDF-editing software with in-house software
  ∙ Designed, coded, and supported Web clients and Unix command-line applications to feed a MySQL database of journal metadata and generate XML files to feed a search engine

• Electronic Publishing Developer

  University of Chicago Press

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 1997 — January 2000 (3 years 1 month)

  ∙ Wrote software for conversion of SGML to HTML for online journal publishing
  ∙ Wrote software for analysis of PostScript graphics and conversion to web formats (GIF, JPEG)
  ∙ Built web sites for online journals
  ∙ Wrote software for generation of WN web server access control files from MySQL database
  ∙ Built web-based membership directories for publishing clients and wrote software to process updates

• Electronic Projects Editor, Electronic Publishing Specialist

  University of Illinois Press

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1992 — January 1997 (5 years 1 month)

  ∙ Acquired and developed electronic publishing projects. Solicited expert evaluations and proposed projects to publications board. Designed project content and interface.
  ∙ Designed and implemented interdepartmental database for acquisition, production, and marketing.
  ∙ Typeset book interiors and jacket copy on a desktop publishing system, produced proofs and camera copy, generated PostScript and application files for printers, archived files, and kept typesetting statistics.
  ∙ Copyedited and proofread manuscripts on paper and online.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  University of Illinois

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1985 — January 1992 (7 years 1 month)

  ∙ Designed and taught undergraduate courses in rhetoric, literature, business and technical writing, and desktop publishing.
  ∙ Supervised new teaching assistants teaching university level classes in business and technical writing.
  ∙ Set up and maintained Macintosh classroom for UIUC English department; installed hardware and software; trained teachers and lab monitors; wrote lab manuals.
  ∙ Maintained IBM classroom for UIUC English department; installed hardware and software; trained teachers and lab monitors; wrote lab manuals.

Michael Boudreau’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  MA , English , 1985 — 1992

• Hampden-Sydney College

  B.A., English , 1981 — 1985

  Activities and Societies:

  Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa

Additional Information

Michael Boudreau’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Michael Boudreau’s Groups:

•    XML and Related Technologies Network
•    Association of American University Presses

Michael Boudreau’s Honors:

Certified MySQL 5.0 Database Administrator

Michael Boudreau’s Contact Settings

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