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Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for Typefi Publish, a design-driven automated composition system built on Adobe InDesign Server, and Typefi Cloud, an Amazon Web Services hosted edition of Typefi Publish.Guided re-engineering of Typefi Publish 6 Engine as native ExtendScript (replacing legacy Java and custom soap server), and initiated modularization of the Typefi Designer plug-ins for InDesign. Authored functional specifications for enhanced table model of the Typefi CXML 2.0 schema. Built successful partnerships within our geographically dispersed engineering teams to translate feature requirements into workable definitions.Launched Typefi Publish 7 for Adobe Creative Cloud (Oct 2013), and Typefi Publish 6 for Adobe Creative Suite CS6 (Sept 2012).Contributed to corporate strategic plans and objectives as part of the Typefi Systems Pty Ltd executive team.Cultivated relationships with third-party developers and resellers to extend the core capabilities of Typefi Publish: DeltaXML (XML comparison), and Newbook (Canadan VAR specializing in technical, medical, scientific and regulatory environments).

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for Typefi Publish, a design-driven automated composition system built on Adobe InDesign Server.Led development of Typefi Cloud, an Amazon Web Services-hosted edition of Typefi Publish.Launched Typefi Publish 5 for Adobe Creative Suite CS5 and CS5.5 (Feb 2011), and Typefi Publish 4 for Adobe Creative Suite cs4 (June 2009)Launched Typefi Desktop NLM, a single-user edition of Typefi Publish for scholarly publishing (Oct 2009).Leveraged relationship with Adobe to champion pdf accessibility enhancements that shipped in InDesign CS5.5.Cultivated relationships with third-party developers to extend the core capabilities of Typefi Publish: Kerntiff Publishing Systems (PDF annotations), movemen GmbH (math typesetting), Soft Horizons (variable data charting), and Teacup Software (automatic copyfitting).

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Pre-sales consulting, training, and post-integration support for North America and Asia-Pacific.Championed the unbundling and release of Typefi AutoFit, a free InDesign plug-in that enable auto-resizing text frames and dynamic object relationships.Design lead and trainer for Publish 3 implementation at Apple (June 2007); wrote functional specifications for embedded indexing and Section 508 compliant workflows; contributed to development of cross-reference model in Typefi CXML 1.4.Design lead and trainer for Publish 3 implementation at Fodor’s Travel (Jan 2007), which resulted in an 88% reduction in per page composition cost, enabling a rapid transition to full color guidebooks.Design lead and trainer for Publish 2 implementation at Lonely Planet (June 2006), which resulted in $0.9m cost saving within first year.

Select clientele include: American Federation of Teachers (publishing consultant; DC), Corporate Executive Board (graphic design; DC), Lehrman Foundation (web design; DC), Marlboro Road Gang Productions (Mac consultant; NY), Mentors, Inc. (graphic design; DC), and Sushi Yasuda (web design; NY). Founding member of the InDesign User Group in the Greater Washington D.C. Metro Area, and moderator of the InDesign-Talk Google Group.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsible for on-site Mac support, consulting and training. Select clientele include: American Federation of Teachers, National Rifle Association, Porter Novelli, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the White House Office of Calligraphy.Developed training curriculum for Adobe InDesign, Font Management and Color Management.Rewrote significant portions of the FileMaker 7 database used by MacMedics consultants for customer relationship management, equipment inventory, and on-site issue tracking.Guest speaker at AIGA (DC), Art Directors Club (DC), InDesign User Group (DC and NY), Print Managers’ Roundtable (DC), and STEP Stretch Design Conference (DC and TX).Partnered with DPCI to migrate the American Federation of Teachers from QuarkXPress to Woodwing SmartConnection Enterprise, an Adobe InDesign and InCopy-based publishing system.

Greater New York City Area

Design lead and manager for renovation of and relocation to 20,000 sq ft store-front retail location in the Chelsea district—$1.0m construction budget—featured in Architectural Design (AD), volume 72, issue 6 (2002).Responsible for space planning, contract negotiations with suppliers, construction management, permitting and documentation, and custom furniture design.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Responsible for analyzing and developing client technology needs, contract bidding and negotiation, and systems coordination and management for the Arkansas Tech University Pendergraft Library & Technology Center—$0.9m technology budget, $46m total project budget.Construction documentation and detailing for the Keith Smith Company headquarters (AIA Arkansas honor award) and the Tuf-Nut Lofts in the River Market District.

Ann Arbor, Michigan Area

Responsible for Macintosh technical support, maintenance and deployment at Campus Computing and Residential Computing Sites (29 sites with 900+ Macs). Instructor for Mac OS troubleshooting coursesActive contributor to the UMich MacSIG user group.

Master'S Degree, Graphic Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Architecture

Activities and Societies: American Institute of Architecture Students