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Scott Baker
GMC Software Technology AG s.baker@gmc.net |
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Biography: Scott Baker brings nearly 20 years of enterprise business development, strategic alliance, and channel management experience to his position as vice president, Worldwide Business Development for GMC Software. Previously, he held senior management positions in business development, strategic alliances and sales with Pitney Bowes, Alysis Technologies, TurningPoint Systems and Datawatch, Inc. Mr. Baker has forged a successful track record in building successful global partnership programs and in negotiating and managing profitable strategic relationships with premier technology partners, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Unisys, Microsoft, BEA Systems, Adobe, Mobius Management, Fiserv, and SAP. He holds a BS in Finance from Indiana University.
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John R Bandy
Data Recognition Corporation jbandy@datarecognitioncorp.com |
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Biography: Mr. John Bandy is an information systems executive with over 23 years of experience leading large-scale, corporate initiatives for companies in the Midwest. In his current position as Senior Director of Application Development, he provides leadership and direction to software development staff that support several education clients, as well as DRC's Document Services Division.
Mr. Bandy has a diverse background in major applications and technology systems. Prior to joining DRC, he was a senior member of the IS executive team at Foremost Farms USA, Inc., one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the country. Mr. Bandy also led infrastructure technology initiatives for Johnson Controls, Inc., a Fortune 100 corporation, and developed software applications at NCS (now Pearson) in Iowa City.
He has been a champion of quality, process, and cost-effective delivery throughout his career. In addition to his professional experience, Mr. Bandy was the President of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Hewlett-Packard OpenView Forum International for more than three years. Mr. Bandy holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Iowa.
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Scott Bannor
Anchor Software sbannor@anchorcomputersoftware.com |
Instructor
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Biography: Scott has been involved in the electronic document industry since 1980 and active in Xplor since 1989.
At the Spring 1989 Xplor Matso (Mid-Atlantic-Southeast Region) Scott was the first person to address an Xplor meeting on the subject of using barcodes for print quality verification and audit control. Throughout the nineties he did much of the missionary work of educating the industry on the importance of quality control and integrity monitoring in secure printing operations.
Scott has been a frequent speaker at Xplor and other industry events and has written numerous articles for industry publications on subjects ranging from print quality control and variable data printing to the history of print.
Scott began life as a history teacher and has held sales and marketing positions with Exxon, Philips N.V., Racal-Milgo, FormScan Ltd, Johnson & Quin, Moore Business Forms, Bell & Howell, Firstlogic, PrintSoft and GMC. Currently Scott handles sales in the Upper Midwest for Anchor Software.
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Keith Bax
Research Data, Inc. keith.bax@researchdata.com |
Instructor
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Biography: Keith R. Bax is Vice President, Marketing and Business Development for Research Data, Incorporated. Keith joined RDI in July of 2006. In this role, he is responsible for building and developing RDI's sales and marketing initiatives, from both a strategic and operational perspective. He brings a wealth of marketing, business analysis, and complex solutions development experience to his role at RDI.
Keith comes to Research Data after an 11-year career with Xerox Corporation. During his time with Xerox, he held a number of executive positions in the areas of technical marketing, and business process consulting. In 2000, he led the development of a national competitive marketing program, and in 2002, he was selected as a founding member of the iGen3 Sales and Marketing organization. Most recently, Keith was a Senior Business Process Consultant with Xerox Global Services, in Richmond, VA. He has been a panelist and speaker at such events as GraphExpo, VuePoint, OnDemand, and the NAPL, to name a few.
He graduated from the University of Richmond in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, and was a member of the University of Richmond varsity soccer team. He likes to spend time with his wife, Leslie, and his son, Axel. Keith enjoys music, outdoor sports, and is an avid long-distance road cyclist.
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Patrick Bolan
Avanti Computer Systems PBolan@avantisystems.com |
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Biography: Not Available
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Tom Bouman
Kodak, Inc. tom.bouman@kodak.com |
Instructor
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Biography: Tom has eighteen years of experience with products involving color image processing, and high speed, variable data, printing systems. He started at Kodak in 1996 as a development engineer and for the last seven years has held positions as Program Manager, Product Marketing Manager, and Product Manager. Tom's versatility stands out as he has developed product requirements and managed printing systems for transactional, commercial, publishing, and hybrid imprinting markets. Currently he is the Product Manager for workflow and controller solutions plus the Kodak V-series printing systems. Tom is also the IPS representative on the Kodak Data Printing Segment Team.
Overall, Tom has over 25 years experience in development and multi-functional team management of technically advance products. He also spent nine years developing and managing products for digital data acquisition and digital audio processing. Tom received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton with a specialty in digital signal processing and image processing.
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Guy Broadhurst
Océ North America, Inc. gbroadhurst@oceprinting.com |
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Biography: Guy Broadhurst is Vice President, Product marketing, Oce. Guy Broadhurst has worked in printing systems technology for over 25 years. He joined Siemens Nixdorf Printing Systems in 1986 before Océ acquired it. Later, Broadhurst helped pioneer Océ's Print On Demand initiative. His strong expertise includes commercial application development and unique print media, and he was involved in achieving companywide ISO 9000 certification. Today, Broadhurst directs strategic planning, marketing and sales support for all commercial printing systems, software, media development, and pre- and post-processing alliances. He stays heavily involved in market and customer research to identify market trends and issues. He is a regular conference speaker and industry columnist.
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William Broddy, EDP
IMERGE Consulting wbroddy@rogers.com |
Course Chair
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Biography: Bill Broddy is Imerge's Principal Consultant for Compliance Communications Business Processes. He currently assists major organizations across North America with: regulatory best-practices, market planning, and implementation of electronic document delivery applications.
Bill brings over 30 years' experience in electronic document enabling and delivery. During this period he was Canadian Product Manager for printing and publishing systems and was a product planner with IBM in the Boulder AFP lab. He also was Vice President of Business Development for Prinova Technologies. He is Vice-chair of the EDP Commission and Course Instructor for the Canadian EDP Certification Program. Xplor International recognized his leadership and expertise in 2004 with their most prestigous award "Xplorer of the Year".
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Erik Brown
Unisys Corporation Erik.Brown@unisys.com |
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Biography: Erik Brown is a program manager with Unisys Corporation, a worldwide technology services and solutions company. He currently manages the Central Data Repository, an XBRL-based system for financial data collection and processing supporting Federal financial regulatory agencies. He is an author, software architect, and former Microsoft MVP.
He resides with his family in northern Virginia.
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Kevin Brown
RenderX, Inc kevin@renderx.com |
Course Chair
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Biography: Kevin Brown, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, has over twenty years of experience in the information technology and management industry. Prior to RenderX, Brown was senior vice president of sales and marketing for Lightspeed Interactive, a start-up XML content management company. While at Lightspeed, Brown led several acquisitions and developed marketing strategies in XML content management and delivery. Brown has also held management positions at Chrystal Software, Texcel Research and EDS. Brown graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. Brown also holds a Master's Degree in Nuclear Engineering Design from the U.S. Navy's nuclear design facility in Schenectady, New York.
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Kemal Carr, EDP
Madison Advisors KemalCarr@madison-advisors.com |
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Biography: As president of Madison Advisors, Kemal Carr acts in numerous capacities. He is regularly sought out by leading output technology publications, including Data Processing Technology, Digital Publishing Solutions, and Mailing Systems Technology, to write about or comment on key issues and topics. He speaks frequently at trade events, including sessions at Xplor's Global conferences. Kemal also acts as a principal analyst for Madison Advisors. He provides project-based advisory services designed to assist clients with business strategy and technology selection decisions.
Prior to forming Madison Advisors in 2001, Kemal held various system roles including three years with an industry analyst firm and seven years in the Systems Company of Fidelity Investments. B.B.A., Management Information Systems, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin M.B.A. Candidate, Marketing/Management, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Kimberly Caywood
Data Recognition Corporation kcaywood@datarecognitioncorp.com |
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Biography: Mrs. Kimberly Caywood is a proven and experienced manager of people and business with nine years of management experience at a variety of levels. She is currently the project manager for Document Services Information Systems but started her DRC career in the Education area.
She has various experiences in the technology industry, from running her own successful consulting agency to working with multi-million dollar companies as well as government agencies. She has a strong belief in quality and developing customer relations. She is skilled at working multiple projects simultaneously and is an innovative and effective problem solver. Mrs. Caywood holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Central Michigan University.
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Craig Cooper
ChoicePoint Precision Marketing craig.cooper@choicepoint.com |
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Biography: Craig Cooper is a Lead Software Architect for ChoicePoint Precision Marketing (CPPM) in Peoria Illinois. Craig has over 15 years experience in the Direct Mail Marketing industry starting in customer database management leading to his current responsibilities for enterprise systems managing VDP document composition and production on a variety of print platforms. Craig is a U.S Army veteran with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from Western Illinois University and is adjunct faculty at Midstate College teaching Computer Science fundamentals.
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Ernie Crawford, EDP
Crawford Technologies Inc. ernie@crawfordtech.com |
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Biography: Ernie Crawford, EDP, is President of Crawford Technologies Inc. He has over 23 years of experience with Xerox metacode, as well as AFP, PostScript, PDF and PCL print data streams. Mr Crawford designed and did the initial development of the PRO suite of software, which transforms between different print formats, extracts data from print streams and allows users to enhance print streams on Windows, z/OS and Unix. PRO software is also being marketed by IBM, LRS, EMC, Checkfree i-Solutions, Nearstar, Whitehill Technologies, ASE Technologies, Prinova Technologies and other companies. Ernie has trained many people on print streams over the years. Ernie received his EDP certification in 1997 and was recertified in 2003. Mr. Crawford has spoken at many XPLOR conferences around the world and has twice contributed to the XPLORation Journal of Electronic Documents.
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Philip Cusick
Citizens Bank philip.cusick@citizensbank.com |
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Biography: Not Available
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Bruce Damer
Elixir Technologies Corp bdamer@digitalspace.com |
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Biography: Bruce Damer is a pioneer in the electronic documents industry having developed some of the first graphical user interface software for the PC used to create print resources while in his "first life" at Elixir starting in 1987. He was awarded the Xplorer of the Year for 1992 for his contributions to the industry. Now in his "second life" with Elixir since 2002 he is CTO working with a superb team developing a Web 2.0 document platform to take the industry into the 21st Century. Bruce wears another hat as CEO of DigitalSpace, a company he founded in 1995 that builds open source 3D simulations for NASA and others.
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David Day
Pitney Bowes david.day@pb.com |
Instructor
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Biography: David Day, ADF Solutions Manager, brings over 27 years of experience in the document management and mail industry to Pitney Bowes.
Prior to joining the Pitney Bowes, Day was Director, Solution Sales, for Sefas Innovation, Inc. His responsibilities included promoting Sefas Document Content Solutions, specifically to companies embracing the ADF. He held the position of Major Account Manager for Formscan¡¦s Automated Document Factory Solutions. While at Formscan, Day was involved in many of the largest ADF operations in the U.S. and Canada. He held the position of Product Manager for Group 1 Software¡¦s personalization products. Prior to Group 1, he served as a systems analyst for Xerox Corporation and Cheshire/Xerox with an emphasis on data management. As an active member of Xplor for over 12 years, Day frequently presents at local and global Xplor meetings. He has also been a guest speaker at various company user and industry groups. Day earned a degree in Business Management and a subsequent degree in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Mark Fallon
The Berkshire Company mmf@berkshire-company.com |
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Biography: Mark Fallon is an speaker who shares insights gained from a career that spans from a part-time job as a mail clerk, to an officer in the United States Army, from a corporate executive to a successful entrepreneur. As President & CEO of The Berkshire Company(www.berkshirecompany.com), Mark helps his clients develop solutions using emerging technologies and expert leadership.
A Mailpiece Quality Control (MQC) Specialist and a Certified Mail & Distribution Systems Manager (CMDSM), Mark was a recipient of MSMA's Manager of the Year, MSMA's Distinguished Service Award, the National Postal Forum's Mail Center Manager Award and the US Postal Service Northeast Area's PCC Industry Member of the Year Award. A frequent speaker at the National Postal Forum, Xplor and local MSMA and PCC chapters, he has received numerous top speaker awards.
Mark received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Suffolk University in Boston. In addition to articles published in numerous periodicals and e-zines, Mark's "Peer to Peer" column appears regularly in Mailing Systems Technology magazine.
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Carl Frappaolo
AIIM International cfrappaolo@aiim.org |
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Biography: Prior to founding Information Architected, Mr. Frappaolo established AIIM\'s Market Intelligence division and was the co-founder of Delphi Group. Mr. Frappaolo is the creator of several methodologies focused on the development of business strategies for the deployment of content and process technologies. He is the author of four books and hundreds of papers published in leading business and trade periodicals. Mr. Frappaolo is a frequent speaker at conferences and has delivered the keynote address at numerous national and international trade and user conventions.
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Wes Friesen
Portland General Electric wes.friesen@pgn.com |
Instructor
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Biography: Wes Friesen (CMDSM, ICP, CMA, CFM, CM, APP, PHR, CCM) is the Manager of Revenue Collection & Community Offices for Portland General Electric, an utility with over 790,000 customers and annual revenue of about $1.4 billion. Wes has been at PGE 26 years, and manages several departments: Printing & Automated Mail Services, Cash Remittance Services, Customer Pay Options and PGE's 7 Community Offices.
Wes and the PGE print & mail operations have been featured in numerous trade journals. Wes received the 2001 "Technical Excellence Award" from MailCom & MSMA, PGE was named 2001 and 2005 "Mailer of the Year" by the Greater Portland Postal Customer Council, and in 2002 PGE received the "Management Award" from the IPMA. Wes also received multiple "Top Speaker" awards from the National Postal Forum and other conferences.
Wes earned a B.S. in Business Administration from George Fox University, and an MBA from the University of Portland. For the past 22 years Wes has also been an award winning University Instructor. He has become a regular speaker at regional PCC and MSMA conferences, and national conferences like National Postal Forum, MailCom, XPLOR, IPMA, TAWPI and CIS. Wes has had articles published by Mail Magazine, Today journal, Mailing Systems & Technology, Document, Perspectives and Inside Edge. Wes was the Industry Co-Chair of the Greater Portland PCC the past four years, and serves on five boards.
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Bryan Fulkerson
Kodak, Inc. bryan.fulkerson@kodak.com |
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Biography: Bryan Fulkerson has 21 years industry experience with companies as diverse as Delphax, Bull, and Eastman Kodak, where he is a National Account Manager concentrating in solutions for transaction and TransPromo focused customers. Bryan is comfortable talking about hardware and software, but prefers to talk about solutions. His success is demonstrated in his regular attainment of his sales goals and his ability to keep his customers are the forefront of new trends in the marketplace.
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Scott Gerschwer
MegaSpirea International scottg@megaspirea.com |
Course Chair
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Biography: Scott Gerschwer focuses on technologies that help make documents and mail better communication channels and leads the worldwide marketing and sales effort for Megaspirea International, a privately-funded technology company that introduced the concept of dynamic envelope creation,T a mail finishing system that creates the envelope from the same roll of paper that the documents are printed on, inline, with implications for marketing, inventory, privacy, security and greater process efficiency. He is a Visiting Professor of Communications at Western Connecticut State University.
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Roger Gimbel, EDP
Roger P. Gimbel & Associates roger@rogergimbel.com |
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Biography: Roger P. Gimbel is President of Roger P. Gimbel & Associates. With over 35 years experience as an accomplished printer, he is a recognized authority in the digital printing industry. As one of the principals and Director of Worldwide Operations and Marketing for Global Document Solutions, he oversaw operations for one of the largest companies in the document services industry. He was also President of XRC Inc., a worldwide leader in digital print-on-demand. Roger has continually maintained a high level of productivity in his corporations by utilizing leading edge technologies.
In 2000, Roger was presented with the prestigious "Pioneer of the Decade" award for his outstanding contributions to the digital printing industry. More recently the International Printers Network honored him with their "Lifetime Achievement Award" and at Mail COM 2004 he received the prestigious "Technical Excellence Award."
Roger currently serves as the Chairman and Director of The International Print Network (IPN), the world's foremost global alliance of leading edge companies in the printing, visual communications and graphic arts industry. He is also a board member for the Xplor Northeast Region. He earned is EDP, Electronic Document Professional, from Xplor in 2001. He is a member of the advisory council for the Xerox Premier Partners organization and a member of the advisory board and a monthly contributor for Printing News Magazine.
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Elizabeth Gooding
Insight Forums egooding@artplustechnology.com |
Instructor
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Biography: Elizabeth Gooding is a pioneer and visionary in the area of relevant, personalized communications that drive positive business results. Currently, she conducts research on trends, technology and opportunities related to integrated closed-marketing. She has launched a social-networking community called the Financial Communications Forum to promote best-practices for communications in the industry. Previously, Elizabeth founded Art Plus Technology, the premier provider of design and communications strategy to the financial, insurance, and healthcare industries. Elizabeth continues to provide strategic consulting through Art Plus Technology, which was acquired by NEPS LLC in 2007.
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Avi Greenfield
PrintSoft avi.greenfield@printsoft.com |
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Biography: Avi Greenfield, Director of Business Development for PrintSoft, has 15 years of experience in business strategy and technology solutions. Having served dozens of Fortune 1000 organizations in both business development and consulting roles, he has a keen understanding of how to utilize technology to build business value. Greenfield is currently responsible for enhancing PrintSoft's solutions for managing business-critical communications by establishing and managing alliances with complementary technology suppliers and other strategic partners.
Prior to joining PrintSoft, Greenfield was a senior analyst with Doculabs, where he researched emerging technologies including enterprise content management, business process management, and electronic bill payment and presentment, and provided leading companies with consulting on strategic technology initiatives. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events (including AIIM and XPLOR) on personalized communications and the use of technology to reinforce competitive advantage.
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Thomas Harter, Sr.
MicroDynamics harter@microdynamics.com |
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Biography: Not Available
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James Harvey
CIP4 Organization Theharvey3@aol.com |
Course Chair
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Biography: James E. Harvey is the founder and president of Media4theWorld, LLC, which provides management and technical consulting to the media industries. He serves as CIP4 Organization's Executive Director and was responsible for editing three editions of the JDF Specification. For eight years he was VP of Spectrum Operations at Graphic Communications Association (now IDEAlliance), a technical and management association for the print and Internet publishing industries. For eight years Harvey was also a Business Development Manager at Volt Information Sciences where he organized and pioneered document and data warehousing, SGML services and applications, CD-ROM publishing, hypermedia, and object-oriented document constructs. He has held numerous industry posts including VP & Board member of TAGA, Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Digital Ad Lab, Secretary of ANSI/PIMI IT2 (Densitometry), has authored or co-authored several key industry documents, and has spoken at over 100 industry events. Jim earned his M.S. in Business from John Hopkins University.
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Skip Henk, EDP
Xplor International skip@xplor.org |
Course Chair
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Biography: Skip Henk, EDP, is President and CEO of Xplor International. As President / CEO he plans, formulates and recommends policies and programs which will further the objectives of the association; maintains relationships with other organizations; ensures the Xplor's leadership are kept informed on the conditions of the association, and establishes the organizational structure for the headquarters office.
Skip has been involved in the industry for over 30 years both as an end user and vendor in a variety of technical, sale, marketing and managerial capacities. Skip has been part the Xplor community for over 25 years and has served on various committees including the EDP Certification, Vendor Advisory and Nominating Committees. Henk received his EDP is 1995 and currently sits on Xplor's Associate Board of Directors.
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Pierre Heymann, EDP
Sefas Innovation pheymann@sefas.com |
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Biography: Not Available
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Mick Heys
Global Graphics Software Inc. |
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Biography: Mick Heys, Director of Business Developments at Global Graphics, identifies and develops new markets for Global Graphics' industry-leading printing and document technology. He also researches and analyses potential markets for the company's technology in new and emerging segments, particularly focussing on those where the adoption of XPS is creating an opportunity.
Mick has over 25 years experience in the graphics and printer industry with product management and planning roles for Canon and Oki, and analyst roles for Gartner, IDC and InfoTrends. He was IDC European Analyst of the Year 2000 and holds an honour degree in Graphics Technology.
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Jean Hill
Xerox Corporation Jean.Hill@xerox.com |
Instructor
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Biography: Jean Hill is Product Marketing Manager, Production Systems Group. She was named to the position July 2007. Jean is responsible for marketing of select DocuColor Products sold World Wide by Xerox. Jean joined Xerox in 1979 and has held various sales and marketing positions including Production Color Marketing Executive, Document Centre Marketing Executive, National Sales Manager and Regional Sales Manager earning numerous Presidents' Club Awards. Jean earned a Bachelors of Science in Business Education from the University of South Florida.
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Reinhard Hohensee
InfoPrint Solutions Company hohensee@us.ibm.com |
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Biography: Reinhard Hohensee joined IBM in 1973 and worked on the development of disk and tape attachments for the IBM 4331 and 4361 processors. In the early 1980s, Hohensee designed prototypes for single-user workstations and inter-system communication while on assignment at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In 1985, he joined the IBM Printing Systems Division, where he started his work on the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Architecture in 1990. Reinhard retired from IBM in May 2007 and is currently a Distinguished Engineer with the InfoPrint Solutions Company where he continues to be the lead architect for the AFP Architecture. Since 2004, Hohensee has lead the AFP Consortium in its work to develop AFP color management, and since 2006, in its work to develop the entire AFP architecture.
Reinhard received his Bachelor of Engineering Science degree from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook and his MSEE and Electrical Engineer degrees from Syracuse University. He holds numerous patents on print architecture and is a member of Tau Beta Pi.
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Ken Holman
Crane Softwrights Ltd. gkholman@CraneSofwrights.com |
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Biography: Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, a co-editor of the Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0 specification, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, a technical lead on UBL code list and customization task groups, the author of electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries.
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Rohan Holt
LithoTechnics Pty Limited rohan.holt@lithotechnics.com |
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Biography: Not Available
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Ed Hunt
Principal Financial Group Hunt.Ed@principal.com |
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Biography: Ed Hunt has been with the Principal Financial Group for 14 years. He currently works as a Senior IT Application Analyst on the Retirement and Investor Service's Dynamic Documents Team, leading a team of web developers, document designers, and graphic artists to create everything from simple correspondence to award-winning 401(k) statements and high-end marketing materials.
Ed holds a BS degree in Finance from Iowa State University and a BS degree in Computer Science from Grand View College in Iowa.
This is Ed's fourth time as a presenter for an Xplor conference.
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Dov Isaacs
Adobe Systems Inc. Isaacs@adobe.com |
Course Chair
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Biography: Dov Isaacs is a Principal Scientist in at Adobe Systems Incorporated. An 18-year veteran of Adobe, he has responsibility for workflow and product interoperability issues associated with print publishing workflow products. Additionally, he monitors numerous InDesign, PDF, prepress, and printing e-mail lists and user forums, not only contributing advice and solutions, especially in the area of printing and PDF workflow, but also using the issues
raised and problems identified as feedback for Adobe product development.
Dov also serves as Adobe's representative to the Ghent PDF Workgroup, the Printing Industry Center at RIT, and several CGATS and ISO committees associated with PDF standards. Previously, Dov founded Adobe's corporate Product Interoperability Group and also served in other engineering and marketing management positions within Adobe including serving seven years as Director of Quality Assurance for Adobe's PostScript printing products and drivers.
Prior to Adobe, he served in engineering management positions in the areas of laser printer, office automation systems, and computer operating system development.
Dov Isaacs received his PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and also earned an MBA in management systems from Cornell University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Terry Johnson, EDP
Terry Johnson Business Consulting terence.genesee@yahoo.com |
Course Chair
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Biography: Terry Johnson, EDP spent the first 27 ½ years of his life in London, England where he worked in inventory control, office administration, customer service, and started his love affair with computers by being part of the 16-hour night shift at a local chemical company. Terry's last position was that of the senior manager of new business development in Milwaukee for Bowne Marketing & Business Communications. This position was like an internal consultant with responsibilities covering the sales support of several local clients, the support of a legion of salespeople from all around the country for certain market segments, and the technical support of a large client base. Terry worked closely with the programming and customer support staff in Milwaukee, and was an integral part of the Milwaukee management team. He was with Bowne/Vestcom/Image Printing Systems for nearly 28 years.
In that period of time Terry has been a member of Xplor, AIIM DPMA/AITP, COMA, & AAG, and has served the Milwaukee community by being involved in a couple of local CBOs with an emphasis on education. Terry got his education at Winchmore Secondary School in London. He is currently on the board of AIIM Wisconsin after 20 years and is an involved Xplor member, chair of the EDP Commission, and Course Chair of the XDU Conference Curriculum.
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Cheryl Kananowicz
DST Output Kananowicz@dstoutput.com |
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Biography: Cheryl Kananowicz oversees the development of DST Output's large business opportunities in the financial services, healthcare and insurance markets in addition to Sales Support, Corporate Communications, Direct Marketing, and eSolutions Sales. She has been with DST Output for 14 years in various Marketing, Client Services and Sales Support positions. Prior to joining DST Output, she managed direct marketing subscription campaigns for Newfield Publications.
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Scott Kelly
US Lynx Inc. scottkelly@pubdata.com |
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Biography: Scott Kelly, EDP, has been active in the electronic document industry for over 25 years, and was a pioneer in the computer typesetting business, as a founding partner of U.S. Lithograph. Subsequently he was involved in a number of media conversion and SGML initiatives, and helped his company write software for Xerox for the Docutech launch. These days he manages the development of interactive data-driven web sites and related laser printing. Kelly has been a speaker at many of Xplor's global conferences. Currently he is on Xplor's Certification Commission, chair of Xplor's IBM Joint Technology Council, member of Xplor's Board of Directors,and current Xplor Document University conference chair.
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Dan Kloiber
Exstream Software, Inc. dan@exstream.com |
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Biography: Dan Kloiber is the CTO and co-founder of Exstream Software. A 20-year veteran in the document management industry, he is a respected authority on software architectures for state-of-the-art customer communications and CRM solutions. Mr. Kloiber oversees product management, software development, QA, strategic partnerships, and customer care. As the chief architect of Exstream's Dialogue enterprise document automation software, he is responsible for guiding its future direction and development. Other key career accomplishments include the founding of PDR Advanced Technology where he created StreamWeaver, and serving on the board and as executive vice president of PDR Information Services. Mr. Kloiber graduated from Cornell University with a BS in engineering.
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Aart Knyff
Cathedral Corporation aknyff@cathedralcorporation.com |
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Biography: Aart began his career with Cathedral Corporation in 1994 as the Operations Manager for the Lincoln, RI facility. He became Lincoln's General Manager in 1997, and was named Vice President of Technology in 1999. Prior to Cathedral, he held positions in both operations and sales for AMS, Data Base Marketing and Laser Image Technology. Aart is well versed in the technologies of Pitney Bowes, Bell and Howell, IBM and Xerox. He is a member of the Providence USPS Customer Council.
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Thomas Krieg
GMC Software Technology AG t.krieg@gmc.net |
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Biography: As CTO for GMC Software AG, Thomas Krieg is responsible for setting the technology direction of the company and for GMC systems architecture development. He also directs all product management activities on a global basis. He has an exceptionally strong background in electronics, communication and software engineering. Before joining GMC, Krieg held a variety of staff and management positions in software development and electronics for the space, satellite and medical industries. His background and experience in digital printing, document design and composition, and output management dates back to joining GMC in 1995.
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Will Mansfield
Kodak SA/NV william.mansfield@kodak.com |
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Biography: Will Mansfield is the Digital Printing Solutions Marketing Director for the Europe Africa Middle Eastern Region of the Kodak Graphic Communications Group.
A native of the United States, Will began his career as a freelance photographer for the Lexington Herald Leader and Associated Press in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. In 1984 he joined Compugraphic and transitioned to the adjacent market of digital imaging. Since then Will has held sales and marketing leadership positions with Scitex, Agfa, NexPress, and Kodak in the United States, Belgium, and Germany.
Will is frequently asked to provide thought leadership in topic areas including print production, personalization, web-to-print, and the new role of building relationships through individual print marketing solutions.
Will moved to Europe in 1999 and currently lives in Brussels Belgium.
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William McCalpin, EDP
MHE mccalpin@mhe-consulting.com |
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Biography: Bill McCalpin is a principal and co-founder of MHE, a twelve-year-old consulting firm that specializes in the product, strategy, and technology issues in the area of the communication and presentation of information via electronic printing, imaging, and the Internet. He has more than 20 years' experience in the fields of software development and consulting, in both technical and management positions. Prior to his current role, he was General Manager of Xplor International, and was Vice-President of Product Marketing at Xenos, an international software vendor specializing in legacy-to-web. In addition, he held a number of technical and management positions with MOD_2000, Image Sciences (Docucorp), and Computer Language Research.
Bill has earned numerous professional designations, including the EDP designation as an 'Electronic Document Professional' by Xplor International, the CDIA certification by the Computing Technology Industry Association, and the LIT (Laureate in Information Technologies) and the MIT (Master of Information Technologies) designations by the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM).
He writes and speaks frequently on subjects in the electronic printing and imaging industries. He has spoken more than eighty times at Xplor, AIIM, DocuGroup, and Guide conferences. Bill can be contacted at mccalpin@mhe-consulting.com or through www.mhe-consulting.com .
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Pat McGrew, EDP
Kodak, Inc. pcm@mcgrewgroup.com |
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Biography: P.C. (Pat) McGrew, EDP is the Data Center and Transaction Segment Evangelist in the Graphics Communication Group at Eastman Kodak, working worldwide. In her role as the evangelist for sophisticated direct mail and TransPromo customer communications she works with customers to promote top line growth through the enhancement of their print products. She is the co-author of seven books covering a variety of aspects of information delivery in multi-channel enterprise environments, as well as the author of major research studies and dozens of articles in the trade press covering business continuity, disaster recovery, records management, print-and-mail innovations, compliance issues, document strategy auditing, the European statement printing market and other topics.
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Thad McIlroy
The Future of Publishing, Inc. thad@thefutureofpublishing.com |
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Biography: Thad McIlroy is an electronic publishing consultant, analyst and author, and president of the The Future of Publishing, Inc., based in San Francisco and Toronto. Since 1988, Thad McIlroy has provided consulting services to publishing and media companies, printers, prepress shops, design and advertising agencies, as well as vendors serving the publishing industry.
What sets Thad apart as a consultant to the publishing industry is in-depth technical knowledge of all the important technologies impacting the publishing industries. This in conjunction with a strong focus on business and market issues. Combined with thirty years of experience in the publishing industry. But unlike many consultants and analysts his focus covers the broad spectrum of publishing activities and industries from document origination, through publishing production and the particulars of most forms of publishing today. Although his background is in print publishing he is established as a leading analyst of the impact of the Internet on the full spectrum of publishing sectors.
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Roberta McKee-Jackson, EDP
RSM Consulting xploruk@aol.com |
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Biography: Roberta S McKee-Jackson EDP of RSM Consulting, based in Hertfordshire, England, is a technology consultant in the digital document communications and publishing industry and frequent speaker and author on document technologies and trends. Currently she is Director of Operations for the Xplor UK & Ireland Ltd region of Xplor International and serves as a Senior Consultant for INTERQUEST Ltd.
Ms. McKee's background includes a 24-year history of experience in the digital document industry. She was formerly Director of Technology and Programs for Xplor International; represented software manufacturers ENTIRE, Inc. and Lytrod Software, Inc.; and owned a Denver, Colorado-based service bureau, Laser Imaging Systems Corporation.
She began her alliance with Xplor as a user member in 1984, holding numerous volunteer positions. Roberta received her certification as an Electronic Document Professional in 1994, and was recertified in 2000 and 2005. She was an Associate Editor of Xploration: The Journal of Electronic Document Systems from 1994-2006. In 2003, Roberta was honoured as an industry 'Woman of Distinction.'
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John Meixel
IBM Printing Systems meixel@us.ibm.com |
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Biography: John Meixel joined IBM in 1978 as a Program Support Representative in New Jersey and became a Large Systems Systems Engineer in 1983. While an SE he supported Early Support Programs on the 3820 and 3827 printers. In 1988 he joined the Advanced Function Printing Technical Support team at the Washington Systems Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland. While there John provided worldwide technical support for the entire printer hardware and software product line operating in the MVS, VM, and OS/2 environments.
In 1993 John joined the Printing Systems Company Federal Sales Team in Bethesda, Maryland as the technical team leader. He has provided sales and technical support for many complex projects. John became a Certified Printing Specialist in October, 1998.
In 2000 John returned to worldwide Advanced Technical Support for the Printing Systems Division working remotely in Gaithersburg. In 2003 he moved to Boulder, Colorado to be with the rest of the team.
John's current technical responsibilities are:
Infoprint 4100/4000/3000 printers
AFP support for Infoprint 5000 color printer
Backup for all other AFP printers
PSF for z/OS
Bar codes
Performance
Connectivity
MICR
PPFA
Field education for the above products
AFP Consortium member
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Peter Muir
Bizucate pmuir@bizucate.com |
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Biography: Peter Muir is President of Bizucate, Inc. They provide education, consulting, research and business development services to the graphic communications industry. Peter is deeply committed to people, education and technology and linking them together to form continually successful businesses. Peter is an internationally recognized speaker on a variety of topics including business development selling strategies and speaks regularly at industry events. Peter sums up his philosophy of business opportunity through Bizucate's tagline, "Helping our customers grow their customers' businesses." Peter can be contacted at: pmuir@bizucate.com
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René Müller
GMC Software Technology AG r.mueller@gmc.net |
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Biography: Dr. René Müller, president and CEO of GMC Software AG, holds a PhD in Physics from the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. His professional experience covers a strong background in research, including fuel cells research, with ABB Brown-Boveri, Baden, Switzerland, and Low Temperature Physics with IBM. Prior to his association with GMC, he worked for a total of 10 years as a management consultant with Bain & Co in London and Munich and later as a freelance turnaround specialist. Since 1994, he has led the worldwide team at GMC Software AG.
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Duncan Newton PhD
Océ North America, Inc. dnewton@oceprinting.com |
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Biography: Mr. Newton has an extensive background in electronic and digital publishing stretching back to the early days of DTP while at Apple Computer. He has held a series of progressively more responsible international positions at Aldus, Adobe and Xerox. His current role at Océ North America is as the Manager of Business Development focusing on graphic arts applications. In this capacity he provides industry knowledge, technical expertise and an understanding of the industry from an insider's perspective. The transformation of transactional documents into marketing vehicles has been part of his focus for over 8 years. A frequent speaker at Trade Shows and Industry Conferences his focus of late has been on the opportunities represented by high-volume toner-based and inkjet digital print production and the workflows that manage them.
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Si Nguyen
Duplo U.S.A. Corporation kchen@duplousa.com |
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Biography: Si Nguyen current title is Product Marketing Manager/Third Party Solutions for Duplo U.S.A. Corporation.
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Gail Nickel-Kailing
Business Strategies Etc. gail@business-strategies-etc.com |
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Biography: An industry analyst, business advisor, and problem solver, Gail Nickel-Kailing has been "in the trenches." Seven years of independent consulting, adjunct executive services, and senior positions in a variety of technology and service companies, as well as the US Postal Service, have given her hands-on experience and insight into the challenges of designing, producing, procuring, and distributing business documents and marketing collateral.
Gail has a special interest in the use of technology to design, acquire, produce, and distribute business communication and promotional materials; and she has a clear understanding of technology's impacts, capabilities, and limitations.
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Gareth O'Brien
Objective Advantage, Inc. gobrien@OAI.cc |
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Laurence O'Hagan
Pitney Bowes/Group 1 Laurence_Ohagan@G1.com |
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Biography: Laurence O'Hagan has been in the electronic printing and publishing space since before Xerox introduced the 9700 in the late seventies.
A physicist by background he is now Chief Technology Officer for the CCM Business Unit of Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, a US-based company specialising in solutions for Business Geographics, Customer Data Quality, Mailing Efficiency, and Customer Communications Management (CCM).
He originally conceived and architected DOC1, Group 1's flagship software solution for customer communications management.
Through research into new markets and technologies he is responsible for guiding its future direction and development.
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Andrew Percival
SurePrint Ltd andyp@sureprint.co.uk |
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James Pillar
Océ Printing Systems GmbH james.pillar@ops.de |
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Stephen Poe, EDP
Crawford Technologies sdpoe@acm.org |
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Biography: Stephen D. Poe is Vice President of Product Management at Crawford Technologies where he is responsible for helping Crawford Technologies expand their existing product lines and move into new market spaces and geographies. His 23 year career includes experience in a diversity of vertical industries and technical fields.
Poe has consulted to corporations and organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and occasionally finds time to publish in the trade press.
Poe received his EDP in 1993 and was recertified in 1998 and 2004. He has spoken extensively at Xplor regional meetings and at Xplor Global conferences for over 12 years. He can be reached at sdpoe@acm.org.
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Humberto Prospero
IBM Printing Systems prospero@us.ibm.com |
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Biography: Mr. Humberto Prospero is the Global Director for Transpromo Solutions for Infoprint Solutions Company. Previous to this assignment, he was Sales Director for Software and Services for the US Region. Humberto was also held the position of manager of software and strategy in the Printing Systems Division of STG, IBM. Mr. Prospero is an acknowledged leader in the Business Communication marketplace, specializing in the rapid delivery of business value through improvement of output processes enabled by leading technologies, business insight and innovative solutions. He has over 30 years experience leading the industry in defining, developing and implementing major business processes, application systems and information technology projects. He has had numerous engineering, marketing, sales and executive positions and has an excellent working knowledge of manufacturing, engineering, development, marketing, sales, financial and HR processes. He has been a certified IBM consulting for the last 10 years. Mr. Prospero is a sought after speaker who presents regularly at major industry conferences as well as author of numerous white papers.
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Brian Ray
Northwest New Media bray@sent.com |
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Biography: Brian Ray, Managing Director for Northwest Mailing Service's "Northwest New Media" group, brings new innovations for personalized data-centric marketing. He returns to Northwest after a handful of years in commercial and open source engineering for workflow, prepress, and VDP products from prestigious organizations like CIP4, Printable Technology and Shared Marketing Service. A decade ago, he engineered the current workflow for digital imaging, prepress, and personalization at Northwest. Brianremains involved with multiple international organizations involving open source, printing, and internet technologies. Brian Ray is a digital printing and internet technologies expert, and the Northwest New Media team provides a wealth of knowledge for the next new wave of opportunity for those who seek integration, technology, and production support for response marketing, hybrid and digital print.
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Janice Reese
Network PDF janice@networkpdf.com |
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Christopher Reid
IBM Printing Systems reidc@us.ibm.com |
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Biography: Chris Reid is IBM Printing Systems Global Solutions Manager for Commercial Print. As such, he has worldwide responsibility for output solutions for providers of outsourced services, direct marketing, and publishing. Chris has over a dozen years of experience in managing operations in book manufacture, transaction printing, and direct mail. His expertise extends to the design, implementation, and support of industry leading software solutions and hardware integration in the Document Management and IT industries.
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Ken Renko
Pitney Bowes Emtex Software krenko@us.emtex.com |
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Biography: Ken Renko has worked with printing systems and output management technology companies for more than 28 years. He joined Pitney Bowes Emtex Software in 2006 as a Product Marketing Manager in Boca Raton, Florida and is responsible for product management and marketing support for industry leading enterprise output management solutions: Virtual Intelligent Presentation (VIP), Virtual Document Enhance (VDE), and FlexServer.
Prior to joining Pitney Bowes Emtex Software, Ken held various technical and marketing support positions with Océ Digital Document Systems and Xerox Printing Systems Group. The combined years of experience in the electronic document industry have provided him with an objective understanding of the requirements and challenges relating to transactional printing, document output management, multi-vendor workflows and variable data applications.
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Jon Reske
UMass Five College Credit Union jreske@umassfive.org |
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Biography: Jon Reske holds an MBA from Wake Forrest and has been a marketing professional for 25 years. He has worked in brand management for several fortune 500 package goods companies and owned his own strategic planning consulting firm before settling into the credit union industry 11 years ago. Jon has been the Vice President of Marketing for UMass Five College Credit Union since 1996. He is responsible for all marketing and business development for the credit union as well as its Financial Investment Services Company. He is also involved with a credit union international outreach program assisting credit unions and their trade association in the country of Azerbaijan. In this capacity he has coordinated work study programs here in the US and will be going to Azerbaijan in May to work with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to strengthen the credit union movement there.
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Nick Romano, EDP
Prinova, Inc. steveb@prinova.com |
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Biography: Not Available
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Eric Roundtree
Network PDF eric@networkpdf.com |
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Biography: Not Available
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Jon Sanders
Network PDF john@networkpdf.com |
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Karl Schumacher
MegaSpirea International karlschu01@aol.com |
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Biography: Karl H. Schumacher is Principal at Infostrategy providing consulting in document strategy, RFP's and buy/sell acquisition services and currently providing executive management to Megaspirea International. He has eighteen years experience in document hardware and software technologies, digital document presentment, multi-channel output, product management and acquisitions. At Pitney Bowes, he served as VP-GM Document Factory Solutions and President of docSense where he was also Inventor of the Year-2002. He was an Executive Board member of PODi and has been both a frequent contributor to industry publications and an event speaker. He can be contacted at: karlschu01@aol.com
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Donald A. Scrima, EDP
Kodak, Inc. donald.scrima@kodak.com |
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Biography: Donald Scrima, EDP has some 30 years experience in the data processing / IT industry. As System Programmer, Computer Operations, Computer Training and System Engineering. He has been involved with Advanced Function Printing [Presentation] (AFP) since 1988, working with PSF, application and resource generation and IPDS hardware.
Donald received his EDP certification in 1995. He has been a speaker at Xplor Global Conferences since 1994, primarily talking on AFP. He has also, presented at numerous Xplor Chapter meetings, SHARE Conferences, and NaSTC conferences.
Don is currently a Sr. System Analyst Workflow Solutions with Eastman Kodak Company, in the Inkjet Printing Solutions, Graphic Communications Group providing AFP support for the Versamark workflow solutions. He has been the instructor for Océ's PRISMA APA server and provided AFP training and has a vast and varied experience in AFP from working with numerous customers in providing printing solutions.
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David Squires
Kern dsquires@kerninc.com |
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Biography: Dave Squires is Vice President, Strategy and Business Development for Kern, Inc. He oversees the marketing vision of the company and works closely with Kern customers. He has over 30 years of experience in the production document industry in Sales, Marketing and General Management positions."
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Marian Stefani
RedTie Limited marian@red-tie.com |
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Biography: Marian Stefani started out in the print industry 10 years ago creating personalised photogifts for the general public. She is now the CEO of the CCS Group, which consists of Create a Gift, CCS Digital, and RedTie Ltd.
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Harry Stephens
INg hstephens@datamatx.com |
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Biography: Harry Stephens is President/CEO of one of the nation's largest privately held, full-service providers of document distribution. As an advocate for business mailers, Stephens is actively involved in several postal trade associations. He serves on the Board of the National Postal Policy Council (NPPC), Greater Atlanta Postal Customer Council, PCC Advisory Committee (PCCAC), and is a member of Major Mailers Association (MMA). He is also president of The Imaging Network Group (INg), an association for electronic service bureaus. As an expert on high-volume print and mail, he has frequently been asked to speak to various USPS groups, including the Board of Governors, about postal reform and other issues affecting business mailers.
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Bob Stier
First Data Resources bob.stier@firstdata.com |
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Biography: Bob Stier is Director, Product Development, Correspondence Communications at First Data Resources, Omaha, Nebraska. Following a military career, he joined First Data Output Services Organization in 1994, and was responsible for routing and distribution of client information. He was director of Print and Distribution Services for three years prior to his present position. His current job responsibilities involve developing and enhancing products associated with written correspondence; and researching current and developing technologies for potential product and manufacturing applications. Associated with this effort is his involvement in strategic planning of new products and product evolution. Bob has participated in a number of technical and advisory committees and currently is a member of the Kodak XJTC and Xerox Executive Advisory Council.
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Taz Tally
Taz Tally Seminars ttallyphd@aol.com |
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Biography: Dr. Taz Tally is president of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer publishing consulting and training company. Taz is the author of numerous books including "Photoshop Before and After Makeovers" "Acrobat and PDF Solutions" "Avoiding The Output Blues" "Avoiding The Scanning Blues", the UMAX MagicScan® Manual, and "SilverFast: The Official Guide". Taz is also a contributing author to "The Photoshop World Dream Team Book". He has produced numerous instructional videos, CDs and DVDs on Scanning, Prepress, Photoshop, Color Correction, Font management, and Keyboard Shortcuts, and was the instructor for the video training series Desktop to Print. Taz has invented and produces a 10-step scanner and digital camera calibration color correction kit.
Taz is a frequent presenter at seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S. Taz also is a regular contributor to Photoshop User, Layers and Elements magazines. Taz is perhaps best known for his entertaining, content-rich seminars and his ability to present complex materials in a simple, easy to understand fashion. He is currently Director of the Digital Print Production Program at Sessions.Edu: The Online School of Design (NY State certified). He also develops training courses for NAPP, Lynda.com and Staffingtools.com. cardigan-welsh-corgi Zip. Taz is available for custom training and consulting. Contact Taz at ttallyphd@aol.com
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Frank Tol
Scan Laser B.V. ftol@scanlaser.nl |
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Biography: Frank Tol, CEO and Co-founder of Scan Laser in the Netherlands has over 20 years of experience in the field of electronic printing.
Scan Laser, located just outside Amsterdam, has been through several waves of innovation. Starting in 1984 as the first provider of barcode applications for mainly retailers in the Netherlands and Germany using one of the first Xerox 9700 printers of mainland Europe.
With the introduction of an 'interpolated' 600 dpi printer back in 1987, Scan Laser got rid of its typeset equipment and started Print On Demand for companies like Elsevier with the Core Journals.
Today, Scan Laser is still highly innovative. With serious investments of more than 1 million dollars in a ERP system we have made it possible to make Real Print on Demand possible. As a result of investments in equipment, it does no longer make a difference whether a book (or any other publication) is being printed in a runlength of 1000 or that we produce 1000 titels runlength 1.
Frank Tol also serves at the board of Bluem, a company that has specialized in the area of electronic billing and payment systems.
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Richard Troksa
Exstream Software LLC rtroksa@exstream.com |
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Biography: Richard Troksa is President and CEO of Exstream Software. With more than 23 years experience in the technology environment, Mr. Troksa has held executive positions in development, professional services, marketing, and business management. Before joining Exstream, Mr. Troksa was instrumental in the creation and market delivery of many printing and output solutions while working for IBM. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Purdue University and an MS in engineering from Colorado State University.
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Howard Turetzky, EDP
InfoPrint Solutions Company howardt@us.ibm.com |
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Biography: Howard Turetzky, EDP, is a programmer and support specialist for the IBM Printing Systems Division in the Boulder Programming Center. He was an original developer of ACIF, and has worked on development of Infoprint Server, PSF, PPFA, AFP Toolkit, PPMP and Xport, among others. He maintains a number of widely-used AFP tools, including the AFP Analyzer. Before joining IBM in 1996, he was a principal of HYDRA Consulting for 25 years, specializing in applications, systems programming and printing systems. Howard is a member of ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
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Michael Turton, EDP
Cavendish Consultants cavendish@turton.net |
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Biography: Dr Michael Turton has been designing documents for over two decades during which time he witnessed the birth of desktop printing and laser production printers.
As MD of a design company within the Saatchi empire, Michael was responsible for the radical new design of the British Telecom billing system in the early 1990s.
He established Cavendish Consultants in 1992, principally to design mission critical transactional documents and forms. His designs not only look good but work well, a combination of form and function that can be seen in the documents of companies such as AXA, Scottish Widows, Abbey, Scottish Power, United Utilities, Schroders, Citibank, National Savings & Investment, Mashreq Bank, Severn Trent and HSBC.
When he is not designing documents he helps companies develop and implement document strategies whose justifications are not so much?How much? but rather? What is the cost of not having one? The satisfaction in changing the way a large corporation thinks about its documents is considerable - as are the benefits that subsequently accrue.
In 1998 he received his Electronic Document Professional certification.
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Paul Van Hoesen
Network PDF paul@networkpdf.com |
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Mario Veronese
Hermes Precisa Australia (HPA) Mario.Veronese@hpa.com.au |
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Michael Warne, EDP
First National Bank of Omaha mwarne@fnni.com |
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Biography: Michael L. Warne, EDP graduated from Midland Lutheran College with a Bachelor's degree in Biology and graduated from the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science with a degree in Mortuary Science. He is currently a Lead Programmer Analyst, employed at Laser One - First National Bank Omaha, where he has worked for more than 25 years, and is responsible for the support of the bank's report archival and management system, PSF, Prisma print servers, and all mail processing software.
Mike received his EDP certification in 2003. Michael has taught many classes on print formats, AFP, fonts, and graphics at Xplor as well as other user groups. Michael is also the Secretary for the Xplor Midwest Region and Treasurer for the Xplor Heartland Chapter.
Michael's areas of expertise include report management and archival, DASD management, MVS, high speed printing, PSF (utilities & print transforms, OGL, PPFA, ACIF, MO:DCA structures, MVS Download), Xerox, PCL, fonts, graphics, SMF, and mail processing.
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Rob Williams
Focus Solutions, LLC rwilliams@focussolutions.com |
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Biography: Rob Williams has been involved in the document management industry for 30 years, providing management and consulting to clients in records, mail, presort, print and facility management. He also holds a U.S. patent related to bar-coding documents which has been used to sort and chargeback incoming mail.
Williams is currently managing partner of the Focus Solutions - Omaha facility and instrumental in start-up of the business division which is a growing segment of the organization. The business division is built around digital, variable and color printing, utilizing the same quality products and services currently offered to Focus's Legal clients.
Williams is also instrumental in development and overseeing facility management for legal and commercial clients. Focus Solutions, LLC will provide clients with complete on or off-site management of back office functions not considered core competency. Currently, Focus Solutions LLC has offices in Des Moines, Kansas City, and Omaha.
He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and serves on several industry boards of directors, both local and national. He is a graduate from Iowa Western Community College and University of Nebraska-Omaha.
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Mark Wilton
Kodak Graphic Communications mark.wilton@kodak.com |
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Biography: Mark Wilton is Director, Partner Initiatives, Enterprise Solutions. He moved to North America from Australia; where he was the Marketing Manager, Creo Australia, New Zealand for over 6 years, currently lives in Vancouver, Canada. Mark sits on the NGP Partners board as the Marketing Chair and Administrator of the partnership organization, as well as being an active member of the Marketing Committee of CIP4 organization. Mark's current role and responsibilities include managing the business partner relationships between Kodak and the 50+ NGP Partners; as well as all things relating to JDF, process and production automation, integration and connectivity to its partner businesses. Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Marketing and Communications; University of W. Sydney, Australia as well as a Certificate of Business Management from the Australian Institute of Management, Sydney.
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Angie Winn, EDP
Group 1 Software, A Pitney Bowes Company angie_winn@g1.com |
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Biography: Angie Winn is the Director of Alliance Technologies for Pitney Bowes Software (formerly Group 1 Software). Pitney Bowes Software (PBS) is the leading provider of a broad range of products for mailing efficiency, database marketing, location intelligence and electronic document systems. Angie Winn is a part of the Strategic Business Development division of Pitney Bowes Software.
Angie has been a part of PBS for 12 years. While at PBS, she has been involved in the post-sales support of the DOC1 product. This support included installation, implementation, problem resolution and mentoring support. DOC1 is electronic document composition tool, which allows the user to create customized documents based on the information provided about a particular customer or account. In her current role, Angie is responsible for working with business partners to assist them with the integration and utilization of technology from PBS. Prior to working for PBS, Angie worked for Logica, Inc. as a customer support manager and Image Sciences, Inc. as a Senior Site Representative.
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Stephen Wowelko, EDP
AFP Application Design and Education wowelko@juno.com |
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Biography: Stephen Wowelko, EDP, is an independent consultant specializing in
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP), forms design and education.
Mr. Wowelko has been certified as an Electronic Document Professional (EDP) since 1993. In 1999 he retired as Chairman of the IBM Joint Technology Council, as its then longest serving member. Stephen has served on the Xplor Northeast region board for the past 10 years.
Stephen has given many presentations at Xplor global and regional conferences and at IBM user's group meetings on the AFP Architecture. Wowelko is also the co-moderator of the AFP discussion listserve, which now has over 700 members.
Stephen Wowelko has taught customized courses in AFP throughout the United States for over 15 years. Being an actual user of this architecture and using real life samples gives him an advantage in teaching through examples.
"When I was introduced to AFP in 1990, I was handed a user manual and told to make it work in a few weeks. Having no knowledge of the products, no examples to work from, and no one to turn to for help proved for a very painful experience. It was this experience that made me decide to teach new users about AFP, how it works, my life experiences with it and offer examples that they could use as templates for their own applications."
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