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Xplor Document University Faculty
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Martin Bailey
Global Graphics Software Inc.
martin.bailey@globalgraphics.com |
Type: User Group
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Biography: Martin Bailey, Chief Technology Officer at Global Graphics, specifies and designs many aspects of Global Graphics' industry-leading printing and document technology which extends across several page description languages including PostScript, PDF and XPS (XML Paper Specification). He is also involved in analyzing current and future needs for print and document workflows. He is active in representing Global Graphics on a number of industry bodies and standards committees including those developing JDF, PDF/X and PDF/A. Martin has over 20 years of experience building, using, supporting and improving products for the electronic publishing, graphic arts and document industries in technical support, product management and programming as well as in consulting, service bureaus, and production management.
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Klaas Bals
Inventive Designers
Klaas_Bals@inventivedesigners.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Klaas Bals studied Computer Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 4 years, he is a member of the W3C XSL working group and a former member of the W3C XForms working group. He can be reached at the following email address: 'Klaas_Bals (at) inventivedesigners.com'. He is CTO of Inventive Designers, where he is responsible of Scriptura, an XSL-FO based output solution
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Scott Bannor, EDP
GMC Software Technology Inc.
s.bannor@gmc.net |
Type: 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 the printing industry.
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, and PrintSoft. Currently Scott is a regional sales manager for GMC Software Technology.
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John Barrett
Industrial Medium, Inc.
john@industrialmedium.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: John Barrett is the chief architect of the Expressroom content management system and founder of Industrial Medium. Driven by the challenge of solving real-world problems, he enjoys seeking out innovative, out-of-the-box solutions that, ultimately, are practical to implement and use. This drive, along with an insatiable appetite to tinker, led him to drink the XML Kool-Aid in 1998 and use it as the backbone for building industrial-strength Web sites.
John has been practicing software engineering at a variety of companies since receiving a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988. He lives in Vienna, VA, and enjoys ultra-marathon cycling and trying to hide his envy when his four children demonstrate how easy it is to learn Spanish.
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Andrew Bateman-Jones
Global Graphics Software Inc.
andrew.bateman-jones@globalgraphics.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Andy Bateman-Jones is a Technical Consultant at Global Graphics, working directly with customers to provide the best technology solutions possible for their specific product needs. Extensive experience of all GlobalGraphics RIP Technologies for PostScript, PDF and XPS allows him to provide the help and guidance needed from initial product design through to the final deployment of a wide variety of production solutions ranging from embedded desktop designs through to multi-rip digital press configurations.
Andy has 20 years of experience in the printing and publishing industry starting from mechanical film assembly techniques in the 80's through to today's high performance workflows for digital presses, designing, developing and deploying solutions to the problems and challenges presented by this fast changing industry.
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Gilles Biscos
INTERQUEST
gbiscos@inter-quest.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Gilles Biscos, the founder and President of INTERQUEST, has spent over 25 years in the information processing industry. He has extensive expertise in strategic planning, market research, competitive analysis, and the development of educational and training programs related to digital printing/publishing and document management. Mr. Biscos is the co-author of Digital Printing: The Reference Handbook, published in 1993 and updated in 1998 and 2004. He has spoken at a number of industry conferences and written numerous articles for publication. Mr. Biscos holds Master of Science degrees in Economics and in Social Psychology.
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William Broddy, EDP
IMERGE Consulting
wbroddy@rogers.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: William Broddy EDP, is Imerge 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 nearly 30 years' experience with 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 an EDP Commissioner and Course Instructor for the Canadian EDP Certification Program. Xplor, the Electronic Document Systems Association, recognized his of leadership and expertise in 2004 with their most prestigous award "Xplorer of the Year".
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Kevin Brown
RenderX, Inc
kevin@renderx.com |
Type: 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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Alfons Buts
Nipson America, Inc.
alfons.buts@be.nipson.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Alfons Buts is the President of Nipson Digital Printing Systems PLC. Mr.Buts has decades of experience in the digital printing industry. Prior to his current position, he held executive positions at Xeikon, starting in 1990 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and rising to the position of President and CEO, which he held until taking the reins of Nipson several years ago. He serves on the board of directors of EDSF, and has been a regular speaker at previous Xplor Global Conferences.
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Kemal Carr, EDP
Madison Advisors
KemalCarr@madison-advisors.com |
Type: Instructor
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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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Toby Cobrin, EDP
INTERQUEST
trcobrin@comcast.net |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Toby Cobrin, EDP, is a director at INTERQUEST, a market and technology research and consulting firm, and has been involved in the electronic document industry for more than 25 years. Her roles have included technical and marketing positions in a leading document service bureau, technology advisor to a trade association and research analyst for INTERQUEST. Ms. Cobrin has spoken at numerous industry conferences and has contributed articles to leading industry trade journals. Ms. Cobrin holds a Master of Science degree in business from Columbia University.
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Craig Cooper
ChoicePoint Precision Marketing
Craig.Cooper@choicepoint.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Craig Cooper is a Lead Software Architect for ChoicePoint Precision Marketing (CPPM). 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 holds 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. Prior to finding his calling in Computer Science, Craig was an Intelligence Analyst in the U.S. Army.
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Kevin Craine
Craine Communications Group
kevincraine@comcast.net |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Kevin Craine, MBA, EDP is the author of the book, "Designing a Document Strategy," which has sold in over 30 countries worldwide. His books are used in universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. For over 20 years, Mr. Craine managed large document services organizations in the Health Care, Pharmaceutical and Aerospace industries. He was the editor of "Document Magazine," for five years and is currently on the faculty of Kent State University. Craine is a popular speaker, and a respected authority on document strategy design, process improvement and business technology. He received his BA in organizational communications and his MBA in the management of science and technology.
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Ernie Crawford, EDP
Crawford Technologies Inc.
ernie@crawfordtech.com |
Type: Instructor
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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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Andrzej Czyz
ACC HSH Group
andrzej@acchsh.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Andrzej Czyz, M.Sc. started his career with the pre press industry in 1988 as Managing Director of Prosystem Computer Technic - a company based in Vienna selling DTP systems in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. At this time he was involved with installations of the first independent newspapers in Poland - Gazeta Wyborcza (elections newspaper of Solidarnosc-1989); Czechoslovakia - Lidove Noviny (1992) and the Soviet Union - Nezawisimaya Gazeta (1991).
In 1992 he established his own private company AC&C, Ltd - pre press integrators (and distributors of equipment from Birmy, Centurfax, Compose, ICG, HSH, PhaseOne and Xitron amongst others). During the Seybold Seminars held at San Francisco in 1999 AC&C were awarded with three HotPic awards for PDF native products developed by HSH (PDFOrganizer - native PDF imposition, PDF Personalizer, PDF Pairer)
In 2000 AC&C HSH Group was established as a new software house completely dedicated to developing the best automated native PDF workflow solution - PuzzleFlow. PuzzleFlow was awarded with HotPic during Seybold Seminars held at San Francisco in 2002 as the first native automated PDF workflow solution.
Up to this point this company has sold approximately 1,500 licences to major OEM's such as Heidelberg AG and Founder Electronics and to more than 700 customers world wide. Born in 1957 at Lodz, Poland, he received a Master of Science degree in cybernetics from the University of Dresden (East Germany) in 1982.
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Pete D' Amtao
Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies - ADF
peter.damato@pb.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Pete D'Amato is the Director of Product Management for Automated Document Factory Solutions at Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies, based in Danbury CT. His responsibilities include marketing and product management for the Direct ConnectT intelligent control system, Mailstream Monitor integrity system, and DFWorks® ADF information management system.
Pete has been with Pitney Bowes for over 10 years. He was the original product manager for the Direct Connect high-integrity control system. Prior to Pitney Bowes, Pete held both technical support and sales positions with G.E. Power Systems for centralized control and data acquisition systems in the electric utility market. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Bridgeport. Pete and his family live in Connecticut.
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Ken Dawson
ClearStar.Net
kdawson@clearstar.net |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Ken is a founding member of Compass, Inc. (ClearStar.net) and currently serves as its Chief Information Officer and Vice President. ClearStar.net is a trusted provider of strategic services and decision making information for background screening firms. For more than ten years, Ken has been responsible for evaluating, designing and implementing reporting solutions that combine information from disparate information sources in varied data formats into cohesive, consistent and richly formatted reports. Ken started in software development and content delivery in 1990 while working as an intern for Conatec, Inc., an aerospace engineering firm, and studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. Following college and prior to joining Compass in 1995, Ken developed enterprise systems for United Parcel Service and Kaiser Permanente.
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Lori DeFurio
Adobe Systems Inc.
ldefurio@Adobe.COM |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: For over ten years at Adobe, Lori DeFurio has worn many hats. Throughout it all, she's worked closely with Adobe Acrobat software, first as a systems engineer involved with the sales team, then as the Acrobat/PDF technical evangelist. Now, she has a new and exciting role working closely with the Acrobat User Community, including Acrobat Connect users. In addition to writing an informative blog at blogs.adobe.com/loridefurio and an ongoing column at www.acrobatusers.com, Lori travels around the world, speaking at conferences, workshops, and Acrobat User Groups, helping anyone who is interested learn how to get the most out of Adobe Acrobat software.
Prior to joining Adobe, Lori served as a technical consultant at Information Architects, a an SGML/XML consulting firm, and was a pre and post-sales engineer at Agfa, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of products and systems for the making, processing and reproduction of images.
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Paul Donohoe
Universal Postal Union
Paul.DONOHOE@upu.int |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Paul Donohoe is eBusiness Programme Manager at the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in Berne, Switzerland. The E-Business Programme at the UPU guides the development of a strong global position for the postal industry in the information society and its rapidly evolving world of communications alternatives. The UPU eBusiness Programme covers sector strategy, market development, regulations, policy development and finally international service definitions for the global postal sector. A key aspect of the work of the group is to find innovative and constructive use of ICT to connect the digital and physical worlds to enable a modern, effective and efficient postal network in the 21st century.
Paul has an extensive background in product and technology development, marketing and corporate development within the postal sector on both a domestic and international basis within Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining the UPU amongst other things Paul worked in the mailing industry in Australia, so he has seen the postal industry from many sides - as a consumer, business customer and now dealing with international policy and sector strategy aspects.
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Scott Draeger, EDP
PrintSoft
sdraeger@printsoftamericas.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Scott Draeger, edp is the Product Manager for HP's enterprise document automation product,HP Exstream. Scott has over 10 years as a document automation software vendor, as well as experience in print service providers. Most of his document application experience comes from the world of outsourced statements, where timelines are tight, pressure is high and perfection is demanded. Scott earned his MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in 2007 and a BA from University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Olaf Drümmer
callas software
o.drummer@callassoftware.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Olaf Drümmer is the founder and managing director of callas software GmbH, Berlin/Germany, the world's leading developer of tools for standards based PDF quality assurance. He holds a degree in psychology and has been involved in software development for the graphic arts industry for more than ten years. Olaf Drümmer has contributed significantly to the development and promotion of the international standards ISO 15930 - known as PDF/X - and ISO 19005 - known as PDF/A. Having joined the European Color Initiative (www.eci.org) in 1999, he is now serving as its chairman. In spring 2005 Olaf Drümmer initiated the "Printing across borders" initiative,which has since been a very lively forum and series of events discussing and promoting the idea of globally accepted printing
standards. In 2006 he co-founded the PDF/A Competence Center(www.pdfa.org) and is one of its five board members. Together with Thomas Merz he is the author of the "PostScript- & PDF-Bibel". Olaf Drümmer is known as an internationally recognized expert for PDF and
implementation of color management.
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Anir Dutta
Eastman Kodak Company
anir.dutta@kodak.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Anir Dutta is a Solutions Manager within the recently formed Kodak Graphic Communications Group. In his current role Mr. Dutta's primary focus is on the market driven solution needs of the Service Bureau, Corporate and Direct Mail print market segments.
Prior to his current role Mr. Dutta worked in Product Development, Project Management, Workflow consulting and Professional Services. In his workflow consulting role,
Mr. Dutta worked extensively with print service providers to analyze their business needs and helped them architect solutions that satisfied their overall business objectives.
Mr. Dutta has over 8 years of experience in the Graphic Arts industry. He joined NexPress Solutions LLC in early 2002 and subsequently joined Eastman Kodak Company with their acquisition of NexPress Solutions in 2004.
A native of India, Mr. Dutta began his Graphic Arts career in 1996 as the founder and co-owner of a mid-sized commercial print operation in New Delhi, India.
Mr. Dutta holds a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Poona in India and a Masters in Print Management from the School of Print Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Priscilla Emery
e-Nterprise Advisors
pemery@e-nterpriseadvisors.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Priscilla Emery is President and founder of e-Nterprise Advisors and has provided market research and analysis services to Fortune 1000 and high technology companies for over 15 years. With over 30 years of technology experience her areas of expertise include imaging, document, records and e-mail management and other technologies in the enterprise content management (ECM) landscape. Prior to establishing e-Nterprise Advisors, she was Senior VP of Information Products and Services for AIIM International where she was responsible for the development and delivery of publications and market research to AIIM members and associates. Before that, Ms. Emery was VP and Director of Gartner's Electronic Workplace Technologies research center and New Science's Intelligent Document Management service. She has been quoted in many industry publications and has been a speaker at many industry events. Ms. Emery holds MIT and LIT for Electronic Imaging designations from AIIM International, is an AIIM Fellow, an advisor to EDSF and a member of ARMA, and XPLOR.
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Dave Evans
Whippletree Consulting
Dave@whippletreeconsulting.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Dave just recently retired from Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada where he held the position of Director Document Services, Canadian Operations. Sun Life is one of the largest insurance companies in Canada with annual revenues over $30 billion. Dave held the same position with Clarica Life prior to the acquisition and has over 40 years of experience in the document industry. In 2001 Clarica was named as the Xplor Innovator of the Year for their work in full colour variable printing. In 2002 Dave was named as one of the 50 Most Influential People in the Graphic Arts Industry in Canada and in October 2004 IBM presented an award to Sun Life for their innovative use of AFP.
Dave is currently serving his second two year term on the Board of Directors of Xplor International. Dave has also served as President of the Canadian Region and Canadian Central chapter of Xplor.
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Mark Fallon
The Berkshire Company
mmf@berkshire-company.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Mark Fallon will share his 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. 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, and the National Postal Forum's Mail Center Manager 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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David Frenkel
PrintSoft
dfrenkel@printsoftamericas.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: David Frenkel is the General Manager of global marketing for The PrintSoft Group. He formally was General Manager of Pageflex. He was the CEO and founder of several companies (in America and Australia) in the field of publishing automation and has held senior marketing a general management executive positions with Fortune 500 companies (Lear Siegler, Bausch and Lomb and Computervision). He has a degree in Physics from the University of Melbourne and has extensive experience as a journalist and editor.
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Wes Friesen
Portland General Electric
wes.friesen@pgn.com |
Type: 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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Aurelio Mendiguchia Garcia
TAJAMAR -- Instituto de Artes Graphicas
amendiguchia@tajamar.es |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Director Técnico del Instituto Tecnológico y Gráfico Tajamar. Vocal del Comité 54 de AENOR. Miembro de TAGA (Rochester. EEUU). Socio fundador del Circulo Iberoamericano de Formación en Artes Gráficas. Miembro de la junta directiva de AEPAG. Miembro del comité organizador de Graphispag 2007. Miembro del grupo de trabajo del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura para las Cualificaciones Profesionales, INICUAL.
Technical Director of the Institute of Technology and Graphic Arts Tajamar (ITGT, Madrid-Spain). Member of the Committee for Standardisation for the Graphic Industry of AENOR, the Spanish member of the international bodies ISO and IEC. Member of TAGA, Rochester, USA. Associate Founder of the Latin-American Circle of Formation in Graphical Arts. Member of the Executive Committee of the AEPAG (Spanish Association for the Progress in the Graphic Arts). Member of Graphispag's Organizing Committee. Member of the workgroup of the Spanish Department of Education for the Professional Qualification (INCUAL).
Technical Consultant in Graphic Arts. Participation as speaker and moderator in many national and international Congresses, Fairs, Forums and Technical Meetings on Graphic Arts. He has written several articles for the most important spanish Technical Reviews in Graphic Arts. He has imparted many specializing courses of Quality Management, Colorimetry, Processes in Graphic Arts, Materials in Graphic Arts, etc. He's also Visiting Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Master in Publishing)
Member of jurors for the award of the best published book of the Spanish Department of Culture and of the Prize for the Graphical Product of the year./
Consultor técnico de Artes Gráficas. Participación como ponente en congresos, nacionales e internacionales, de Artes Gráficas. Publicación de artículos técnicos en el noventa por ciento de las revistas del sector. Impartición de cursos especializados de Gestión de Calidad, Colorimetría, Procesos en Artes Gráficas, Materias primas en Artes Gráficas, etc.
Profesor invitado en el Master de Edición de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, departamento de Filología Hispánica.
Participación en Ferias nacionales e internacionales del sector de Artes Gráficas. Miembro de jurados de premios al Producto Gráfico de la Asociación Gremial de Empresarios de Artes Gráficas y Manipulado del Papel de Madrid y del Premio al mejor libro editado del Ministerio de Cultura.
Desarrollador de programas informáticos para el control de calidad y color para impresión: DENSICOM.
Asesor del Ministerio de Educación para el diseño e implantación de los nuevos Ciclos Formativos de la Formación Profesional.
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Anik Gariepy
Dynagram
anik.gariepy@dynagram.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Anir Dutta is a Solutions Manager within the recently formed Kodak Graphic Communications Group. In his current role Mr. Dutta's primary focus is on the market driven solution needs of the Service Bureau, Corporate and Direct Mail print market segments.
Prior to his current role Mr. Dutta worked in Product Development, Project Management, Workflow consulting and Professional Services. In his workflow consulting role,
Mr. Dutta worked extensively with print service providers to analyze their business needs and helped them architect solutions that satisfied their overall business objectives.
Mr. Dutta has over 8 years of experience in the Graphic Arts industry. He joined NexPress Solutions LLC in early 2002 and subsequently joined Eastman Kodak Company with their acquisition of NexPress Solutions in 2004.
A native of India, Mr. Dutta began his Graphic Arts career in 1996 as the founder and co-owner of a mid-sized commercial print operation in New Delhi, India.
Mr. Dutta holds a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Poona in India and a Masters in Print Management from the School of Print Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Lee Garvey
PosteDigital
lgarvey@postcentric.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Lee Garvey is the president and founder of PostCentric, a company that develops on-line mailing and direct marketing solutions for consumers and small to medium-sized businesses. He has over 35 years of experience in the postal industry, including 28 years at the US Postal Service where he conceived, developed and implemented NetPostT, the first fully web-enabled distributed hybrid mail solution. In 1999 he received the On Demand Innovator of the Year award for NetPost. Today, through its subsidiary PosteDigital, PostCentric owns and operates the NetPost Mailing Online service in partnership with the USPS.
While at USPS Lee represented the organization at International Data Post (IDP), a multi-national hybrid mail solutions developer, and was instrumental in the USPS's pilot launch of Global ePost with Deutsche Post AG. Lee is a regular speaker at digital printing and postal industry conferences. He holds an MBA from George Mason University.
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Fred Gerson
AIG |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Fred Gerson has extensive experience in print production, lettershop services, systems development and data management. He is fascinated by Fulfillment Operations because this is often where these areas all intersect. Fred has worked with some of the largest and most complex mailing operations in the United States, and has led systems development efforts for mailers with monthly drop quantities over five million and mailing cells numbering over one thousand. Fred is currently working for AIG Insurance in their Domestic Accident & Health division, where he is responsible for Direct Mail Operations and Fulfillment Growth Strategy. Prior to AIG, Fred worked in the Direct Marketing Agency world for Grey Market Data Solutions, Grey Direct and OgilvyOne. Fred is also a 3 time finisher of the New York City Marathon.
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Ron Gilboa
Kodak Graphic Communications Group
ron.gilboa@kodak.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Ron Gilboa is responsible for Worldwide Product Marketing for Kodak Graphic Communications Group. Ron came to the role after serving as Vice President of Marketing at Kodak GCG Inkjet Printing Solutions recognized worldwide for its innovative Inkjet printing solutions in its Versamark product portfolio. Kodak color printing systems revolutionized Transaction printing by enabling cost effective, production level color TransPromo printing for the masses.
Ron is well known in the print industry as a consultant with InfoTrends/CAP Ventures where he served as director for the company's Print On Demand Printing and Publishing Consulting Service. He has over 16 years of corporate and user experience in graphic arts and electronic imaging and technical expertise in digital prepress and job workflow. Prior to an 8-year career with CAPV, Ron held product management and product marketing positions at Scitex America Corporation.
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James Hackett
Indivia
JHackett@Indivia.biz |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Jim Hackett is President and Founder of Indivia. He is a Direct Marketing Practitioner with over 30 years of experience helping clients get, keep and grow profitable customer relationships. Clients such as Sears, First Data Resources, Imagitas, Clarke American and Capital One have experienced improved effectiveness and increased efficiencies resultant from Jim's guidance.
Prior to founding Indivia, Jim was a partner in SourceLink, the nation's fifth largest direct marketing company. Jim played an integral role in the growth of SourceLink, a provider to national and international clients such as the United States Post Office, Eddie Bauer, and Bank of America.
Jim had previously co-founded Direct Results Group, an award winning, all-media direct marketing services company, later acquired by SourceLink.
In founding Direct Results Group in 1995, Jim brought his vision of integrated all-media direct marketing to life. His unwavering belief that marketing communication should be specific, personal and value-based was rewarded with the world's first International ECHO Award for a web site.
Earlier in his career, Jim led the growth of the 22nd largest US direct marketing company, CPS Direct. Organizations such as Lotus, AT&T Capital Corporation, Parametric Technology and Saucony have achieved outstanding results because of his experience and care. In fact, over the last 30 years, Jim has worked with hundreds of clients on thousands of direct marketing programs. He has also served as an officer for associations such as New England Direct Marketing Association, Mail Advertising Association, Sales and Marketing Executives of Greater Boston (President for four years) and Sales and Marketing Executives International.
Jim has also been honored as the Direct Marketer of the Year in New England.
Contact Jim at jhackett@indivia.biz or call 978-474-4068.
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Hans Hartman
Quark
hhartman@quark.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Hans Hartman is currently director of product strategy at Quark Inc. He previously co-founded social networking site Piczo, chaired various Seybold Seminars PDF Conferences, the Electronic Publishing Magazine Print Workflow Summit, and directed the European Future Image Mobile Imaging Summit. Hartman previously was president of ScheduleOnline, director of professional solutions at Live Picture, business unit manager at Xaos Tools, and marketing manager at Barco Graphics. He has written numerous articles for the Seybold Report, Hosting Tech Magazine, and various desktop publishing and graphic arts publications. Hartman holds a Masters degree in Industrial Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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James Harvey
CIP4 Organization
executive_director@cip4.org |
Type: 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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Albert Hernandez
SkyPostal, Inc
aph@skypostal.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Albert has over 38 years of mail and messenger delivery experience. He was a pioneer in developing the private courier and mail delivery business throughout Latin America, opening his first operation in Venezuela in 1972. His experience includes providing FedEx with package distribution in the region in the 80's, handling express mail shipments for several European posts (Unipost), and hand-delivery of mail for Deutsche Post's Global Mail in the 90's. Over the years, Albert developed the SkyNet Worldwide Express Network, building it into a leader in time-defined mail, courier and mass distribution. In addition Albert founded SkyBox which pioneered the practice of internet collection boxes located in the USA for clients ordering from Latin America. This company is what propelled Albert into technology as all orders and communication were via the internet and response times had to reflect the same speed. Albert then invented Postrac and patented its solution. Postrac is a hand held GPS device developed for the Postal Administrations of Latin America and soon to be rolled out worldwide. Postrac captures all hand delivery details including name, signature, photograph and GPS coordinates. In addition, Postrac is building the first ever database of delivery addresses and zip codes in a corner of the world that up until now has had none.
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Reinhard Hohensee
IBM Printing Systems
hohensee@us.ibm.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Reinhard Hohensee joined IBM in 1973 and is currently an IBM Distinguished Engineer responsible for the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Architecture. Since 2004, Hohensee has lead the AFP Color Consortium in its work to develop AFP color management, and since 2006, in its work to develop the entire AFP architecture.
In Hohensee's first eight years with IBM he held numerous positions at the IBM Development Laboratories in Endicott, NY and Boeblingen, Germany, where he was responsible for the development of disk and tape attachments for the IBM 4331 and 4361 processors.
In the early 1980s, Hohensee was on assignment at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he worked on prototypes for single-user workstations and inter-system communications. In 1985 he joined the IBM Printing Systems Division, where he started his work on the AFP/IPDS architecture in 1990. Since then he developed many extensions to AFP including support for N-up printing, Pre/Post-Processing, color, OpenType fonts, and Unicode.
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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G. Ken Holman
Crane Softwrights Ltd.
gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com |
Type: Instructor
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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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Richard Huff
Madison Advisors
richhuff@madison-advisors.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Richard joined Madison Advisors in 2002 as a principal analyst. Richard's expertise spans content management, publishing systems, digital printers, and electronic document delivery systems, including EOMS and EBPP. Richard assists clients with enterprise document strategies, product selection, and market development initiatives. Richard has authored articles for numerous industry publications, including Document, Digital Publishing Solutions, High Volume Printing, and The Xplorer.
Prior to Madison Advisors, Richard was a senior analyst with an advisory firm, where he was lead analyst for end-user and vendor consulting engagements. Richard also had eight years of experience at Uarco, Inc., a manufacturer of customized business forms and label products.
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Dov Isaacs
Adobe Systems Inc.
Isaacs@adobe.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Dov Isaacs is a Principal Scientist in at Adobe Systems Incorporated. A 16-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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Ron Iverson
Global Graphics Software Inc.
ron.iverson@globalgraphics.com |
Type: User Group
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Biography: Vice President Sales at Global Graphics, heads the sales team for Global Graphics' industry-leading printing and document technology, which extends across several page description languages including PostScript, PDF and XPS (XML Paper Specification). Ron has over 30 years of experience in the digital imaging industry, holding Vice President and General Manger roles at a variety of Companies including General Manger of Color Tools Business for Agfa Monotype (now Monotype Imaging); CEO for Dycam, a pioneering digital camera company; Senior Vice President for Datametrics; and Vice President Marketing and General Manager for Dataproducts.
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Alin Jacobs
DME
ajacobs@dmenet.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: When the concept of building strong customer relationships through database marketing was in its infancy, Alin was instrumental in the development and launch of the automotive industry's first mileage driven OEM Service Reminder Program - a program that is widely used throughout the industry today.
Alin Jacobs, a 21-year veteran of the direct marketing industry, is Vice President of Creative Strategies at DME in Daytona Beach, Florida. His extensive knowledge of one2one marketing and variable data print capabilities has been crucial to the design and execution of a variety of DME's data driven programs for Xerox, XMPie, Mobility Products, Premier Agendas, Cunningham Research, Toyota Motor Sales, and Punch Graphix.
In addition to numerous awards for his creative direction in both print and multi-media, Alin is regularly called upon to speak on a variety of topics pertaining to one2one marketing.
His latest endeavors include the development of DME's newest creative impression, MeMarketing - a highly artistic effort that incorporates variable data directly into an image to elicit what he refers to as Perpetual Branding thru Ego Response.
Working closely with key clients and strategic partners, Jacobs develops multi-faceted, integrated cross-media solutions that leverage DME's unique in-house capabilities in variable data publishing, telecommunications, interactive CD-ROM, streaming video
Personalized URLs, and broadcast eMails.
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Stephan Jaeggi
PrePress-Consulting
sjaeggi@prepress.ch |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Stephan Jaeggi is an internationally recognized prepress expert specializing in PDF workflows for print production. He has taught several hundred seminars on PDF technology in Europe and the US. He holds a degree in print engineering and has been a part time professor at the Swiss Engineering School for Printing for fifteen years. Before founding his own consulting company in 1992 is was responsible for the prepress system of the largest weekly newspaper in Switzerland as well as head of IT at the swiss printers association where he helped hundreds of printers and prepress shops to switch to desktop publishing. Jaeggi is involved in developing the ISO PDF/X standards and he is the Technical Officer of the Ghent PDF Workgroup as well as a member of the CIP4 (JDF) advisory board.
Beside consulting and teaching seminars Stephan Jaeggi has also a lot of experience in organizing technical conferences. He served as track chair for several Seybold conferences in the US and Europe. He was involved in the organization of the legendary FOGRA conferences on Advances in Computer Publishing in the early nineties as well as the famous PDF Tours in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and many other conferences.
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Michael Jahn
ELAN GMK
mjahn@elan-gmk.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Michael Jahn is a technical marketing expert in a broad range of printing and publishing workflow applications. Jahn has a passion to simplify the complex tasks of delivering global communication across a variety of medium from high-end print to immediate web content. Jahn enjoys combining his creative talents with technical curiosity - and this has led to the implementation of solutions that have helped many companies differentiate their offerings, maintain market leadership, and accelerate the development and launch of their products and services in this competitive marketplace.
With worldwide experience in speaking at seminars and conferences related to marketing and technical topics in the printing and publishing vertical, Jahn is frequently selected as an expert panelist on the subject of PDF related topics, color management, XML and most recently, XPS.
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Cindy Johnson, EDP
The Regence Group
cxjohns@regence.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Cindy Johnson is currently a Supervisor in the Document Services division of Regence BlueCross BlueShield. At Regence, her responsibilities include high-volume digital printing, electronic duplication and publishing, corporate forms as well as the enterprise document archive and retrieval system. She has been with them since 1977 and has held many different positions over the years. Cindy has been active in Xplor since 1988. She helped start up Northwest Chapter and founded the Columbia-Willamette Chapter. She has been on the Association Board of Directors and held executive positions with the ABOD. In addition, she has served on several committees -Conference, Strategic Planning, Executive, Vendor Advisory, Certification, Technology and currently is a Certification Commissioner and an evaluator for the EDP certification process. She has served on two different JTC's - Siemen's/Oce' and Anacomp. Cindy received her EDP certification in 1993 and was re-certified in 1999 & 2004.
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Terry Johnson, EDP
Bowne Marketing & Business Communications
terry.johnson@Bowne.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Terry Johnson, EDP spent the first 27 ½ years of his life living in London, England with his parents, Johnnie and Poppy and his younger sister Laura. In London Terry 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. He has had several jobs since then including selling newspapers on a street. Terry is now the senior manager of new business development in Milwaukee for Bowne Marketing & Business Communications. This position encompasses a great deal, but it is basically 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 works closely with the programming and customer support staff in Milwaukee, and is an integral part of the Milwaukee management team. He has been with Bowne/Vestcom/Image Printing Systems since 1980. 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 still on the board of AIIM Wisconsin after 20 years and is an involved Xplor member and the chair of the EDP Commission.
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Amy Kearns, Ph.D.
Xerox Supplies, Business Group
amy.kearns@xerox.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Amy E. Kearns is Manager of Worldwide Product Planning & Marketing Strategy for the Paper Supplies Business Unit in the Xerox Supplies Business Group. Dr. Kearns was appointed to this position in August of 2005. She is responsible for marketing, strategy and product development planning for Xerox's paper and media businesses as well as integration of supplies with public relations, hardware marketing, and trade show support.
Amy joined Xerox in March 1997 and has held a variety of engineering and management positions. Most recently, Dr. Kearns was Manager of the Xerox Media & Compatibles Technology Center (XMCTC). She also held positions within the Paper Supplies Business Unit as Manager of Product Development, Quality & Hardware Engagement within the XMCTC, as a Paper Product Development Engineer, and as an Analytical Services Technical Specialist.
Amy was born in Geneva, New York. Dr. Kearns earned a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Mathematics with minors in Chemistry/Geoscience from William Smith College in Geneva, NY in 1992 and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree with a concentration on Bioanalytical Chemistry from The Ohio University in 1997.
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Scott Kelly
US Lynx Inc.
scottkelly@pubdata.com |
Type: Instructor
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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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James King
Adobe Systems Inc.
jking@adobe.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Dr. King is a Principal Scientists at Adobe Systems Incorporated and now has the job of PDF Architect. This means he is responsible for guiding the current and future development of the Portable Document File format that is the basis for Adobe's Acrobat and LiveCycle product lines. Dr. King has been with Adobe since 1988 when he formed the Advanced Technology Group (ATG). He is currently an individual contributor in what is now called the Advanced Technology Laboratory (ATL) within the Office of Technology. Previously he worked within IBM Research both in at the T. J. Watson Research center in New York and at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is the inventor of many patented ideas and is well known for his ability to clearly explain the technologies on which Adobe's products are built.
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Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
dalapeyre@mulberrytech.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Deborah Lapeyre is a Senior XML and XSLT Consultant for Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a firm specializing in helping their clients toward better publishing through XML and XSLT solutions. She teaches XML literacy; business implications of XML, XML (and SGML) syntax, and DTD construction; and hands-on XSLT and XSL-FO courses. Debbie has been working with XML and XSLT since their inception and with SGML since 1984, which was before SGML was officially adopted as an ISO standard. In a previous life, she write wrote code for systems that put ink on paper and used, taught, and documented a proprietary generic markup system named "SAMANTHA".
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Ken Leslie, EDP
Strategic Search Consultants
ken@ssc-online.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Ken Leslie, EDP is the founder and President of Strategic Search Consultants, an executive search firm focused exclusively on the Electronic Document Industry based in Toledo, Ohio.
An Xplor member since 1994, Ken is the Chairman of the Association Board of Directors for Xplor International. Ken has served on the board's Membership, Conference and Nominating Committees, and chaired the Compensation Committee. Ken also serves as an officer for the Ohio Chapter of Xplor, and received his EDP certification in 2001.
Ken is a frequent speaker for industry companies and regional and global industry conferences speaking on Employee Retention, Career Management and Screening/Interviewing Processes for companies. Most recently, Ken was the organizer and a presenter for the new HR Track at the Xplor/GOA Conference in Miami Beach.
Ken's company, SSC, is a boutique search firm that has helped build some of the Electronic Document industry's best companies. Focused on strategic acquisition of top talent and strategic career management for talent, Ken has become the preeminent expert in recruiting and staffing in the Edoc industry.
An upstanding member of his community, Ken is the Founder of the "Homeless Awareness Project" in Toledo, and is a community leader as Co-Chair of the Toledo-Lucas County Homeless Services Board. Ken is also an Emmy Award winning television producer, and prior to recruiting spent six years on the road as a professional stand up comedian.
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Glenn Lombino
DigitalToPrint
glenn.lombino@digitaltoprint.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Having spent 20+ years in logistics and transportation, Glenn Lombino made a career changing decision recently to migrate away from the commodity sale of finished product distribution, up the value chain towards document creation and digital outsourcing. Taking advantage of his global experience and relationships, Glenn formed a company called DigitalToPrint early in 2002. DTP specializes in providing a global network of digital printers for localized print, production and delivery of business documents. In effect making documents do what they are intended to do, more efficiently, more effectively and in the country of destination. DTP now employs 10 people on two continents and achieved first year revenues of over US$2million. Glenn's work history includes the following: Formerly Managing Director of Citipost, where he was instrumental in leading the sale of the company to the Royal Mail for over $40 million. Was Director of Sales and Marketing for Quick International, a privately owned transportation specialist who was looking to reposition itself for acquisition. Revenue doubled during his 5 years in charge, new services were launched and a total makeover of the sales function was implemented. Prior to this Glenn was the President of SAS Distribution and Publishing reporting directly to the Post Office of Denmark and SAS Airlines, which in turn was owned by the Governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Glenn repositioned this company as the first wholesale only mechanism in the international direct mail industry. Revenues grew from $6 million to $42 million in 5 years. Glenn started his management career with the Dutch based TPG Group (previously known as TNT Mailfast). Responsible for creating a global business with selling and operational facilities in over 30 countries with annualized revenues north of $250 million.
Glenn currently lives in NY with his wife, two daughters and the worlds fiercest Jack Russell Terrier.
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Lonn Lorenz
Adobe Systems Inc.
llorenz@adobe.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: As a Product Manager on the Creative Suite, Lonn is focused primarily on PDF workflow across the Adobe Creative Suite. His most recent work was on the recently announced Acrobat 8 Professional and Creative Suite 2.3. He influences features across the products around graphics, print, transparency, PDF, JDF, and related technologies.
Lorenz brought his print experience to work for Adobe in 1999. Before moving into his current role, he was a technical marketing manager responsible for creating product documentation and resources for print service providers and Adobe's print OEM partners. Prior to his time at Adobe, Lorenz spent five years at printing company George Lithograph where he was responsible for document workflow consulting and pre-press. In addition to his work at George Lithograph, Lorenz has spent 10 years in print, publishing, design firms, magazines, and his own design / printing company.
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Herb Mast
nobrainer LLC
hkmast@nobraineronline.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Mr. Mast is a graduate from the University of British Columbia, Canada, School of Business (1985). He founded his first company at age 25 and now at 44 is building his fifth. His first company provided advertising services and was sold to a large printing and publishing company in Vancouver, BC, which he then ran as its President for two years, doubling sales from $12.5 to $25 million during his tenure. Thereafter for the following eight years he founded a publishing company and was integral in building a software development company which lead to his relocation to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 2003.
In late 2004 he founded nobrainer, LLC, an innovative variable data mail company with fully integrated end-to-end creative, print and mailing services. nobrainer incorporates leading-edge variable data print techniques which ensure that nobrainermail gets noticed and gets read. This enables nobrainermail to make a bigger impact and get higher response rates and better ROI than conventional mail.
nobrainer, LLC, is growing rapidly as the company pushes the limits on the use of variable data for the benefit of clients.
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Mark Matheis, EDP
Moore Wallace BCS, Division of RR Donnelley
Mark.Matheis@rrd.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Mark Matheis is currently the Manager of Production Services and Quality Systems at the Moore Wallace (Division of RR Donnelley) facility in Thurmont, MD. He has 25 years in the organization working in Research, Operations Management, Quality and Engineering. Mark is also an Electronic Document Professional (edp) designee through the Xplor International organization. His current responsibilities include: Incoming Business Review, Quality Systems, Environmental Health and Safety, Security, Engineering, Maintenance and Building Management. Mark holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, and MBA in Management from Mt. Saint Mary's University, Emmittsburg, MD.
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Don Maxwell
Crawford Technologies Inc.
don_maxwell@rogers.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Don Maxwell, EDP, has spent the past two years as a Senior Programmer Analyst tearing apart print streams at Crawford Technologies Inc.
Prior to his time with Crawford, Don spent 17 years gathering experience on document composition, print infrastructure, archiving, inserting, and print stream manipulation with a large Canadian Financial Services company.
Don received his EDP in 2001, and that same year was a co-recipient of Xplor's "Innovator of the Year" award for a personalized marketing campaign using IBM's InfoPrint Color 130 Plus (AFP) printer. Don lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, with his wife Trish, daughter Marlee, and son Grant
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Hugh McBride
Archway Marketing Services
xplorglobal@aol.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Hugh has over 25 years experience in digital print and publishing, document management, direct marketing, and fulfillment services. His experience includes senior leadership roles in sales, marketing, and operations. Currently he is Vice President and General Manager at Archway Marketing Services, a provider of marketing solutions that include promotion management and fulfillment services for clients throughout North America. Before joining Archway Hugh was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ancor Information Management, a leading provider of customized print and electronic document services. Prior to his tenure at Ancor Hugh was with Moore Corporation where he served as Vice President and General Manager for Moore's Digital Publishing Group. His background also includes positions with NCR Corporation, Wallace Computer Services, and Uarco Incorporated. Hugh is a founding member and current President of the Detroit Chapter of Xplor International.
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William McCalpin, EDP
MHE
mccalpin@mhe-consulting.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Mr. 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. Mr. McCalpin 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, the worldwide not-for-profit association for users of electronic document systems, and he 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.
Mr. McCalpin 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).
Mr. McCalpin 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, in sessions such as 'Color: Is the Medium the Message?', 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Electronic Forum', 'Losing Information Through Imaging', and 'The XML Bubble'.
Mr. McCalpin can be contacted at mccalpin@mhe-consulting.com or through www.mhe-consulting.com .
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Linda McDaniel, EDP
Xenos Group
lmcdaniel@xenos.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Not Available
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Pat McGrew, EDP
Kodak, Inc.
pcm@mcgrewgroup.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: P.C. (Pat) McGrew, EDP is the Director of Industry Marketing for Transaction Print in the InkJet Technology Business Unit at Eastman Kodak and works worldwide supporting the Data Center Segment for the Kodak Graphic Communications Group. In her role as the evangelist for 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
Arcadia House
thad@arcadiahouse.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Thad McIlroy is an electronic publishing analyst and author, and president of Arcadia House, based in San Francisco and Toronto. A well-established expert in the technology and marketing issues surrounding electronic publishing, color imaging and the Internet, he has authored a dozen books and over 180 articles on these subjects. McIlroy served for five years as Program Director for Seybold Seminars.
In 1988 he founded Arcadia House, a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of electronic publishing technology in the graphic arts and publishing industries. In 1990 he co-founded (with Miles Southworth) The Color Resource, a publishing and distribution company devoted to books and training materials on color design, imaging and prepress.
Arcadia House provides consulting services to publishing and media companies, printers, prepress shops, design and advertising agencies, as well as vendors serving the publishing industry. Principal consultant Thad McIlroy serves also as an expert witness on patent litigation, as well as other litigation related to technical and marketing issues in the publishing industry, its vendors and service providers.
McIlroy wrote the Composition, Design, and Graphics chapter (with contributions from Frank Romano) for the Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing (Columbia University Press, January, 2003). He is a contributing editor to Printing Impressions and to PrintAction magazines, a columnist for XMLPitstop.com, and a member of the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Content Management Professionals. He is a former member of the board of directors of the International Prepress Association. For the past three years McIlroy has been named as one of Canada's 50 most influential people in graphic communications.
McIlroy has spoken at the Seybold Conferences, XPLOR, the NAPL Top Management Conference, the I S & T Annual Conference, the International Prepress Association (IPA) Technical Conference, Prepress Asia, MacWorld, CONCEPPTS, Graph Expo and Digital Design World 2004.
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Roberta McKee-Jackson, EDP
RSM Consulting
xploruk@aol.com |
Type: Panelist
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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 23-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 has been an Associate Editor of Xploration: The Journal of Electronic Document Systems since 1994. In 2003, Roberta was honoured as an industry Woman of Distinction.
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John Meixel
IBM Printing Systems
meixel@us.ibm.com |
Type: Instructor
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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 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.
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Vicki Milton
Microsoft Corporation
vickim@microsoft.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Vicki works on the Windows Client Product Planning team, actively planning document and printing features for future versions of Windows. Her focus on documents and printing started in 2003 when she joined the Windows Digital Documents team. Vicki drove planning efforts for the Windows Vista print subsystem improvements, managed industry participation and feedback on the development of the XPS specification, and worked with IHVs and ISVs to ensure broad and successful adoption of XPS technologies.
Her experience working closely with the hardware community, both as a Microsoft representative and as an IHV, has helped Vicki pave the way to defining hardware related features in Windows . For her first seven years at Microsoft, Vicki worked in the Windows Hardware Experience Group as a technical evangelist and as a business manager. Her evangelism efforts targeted image-centric technologies, where she identified and promoted technologies and architectures that enhanced the end user experience through image and video device connectivity and content handling. She helped define the digital video and still camera experience for Windows 98 through Windows XP. As a business manager in the WHEG, Vicki incubated the Windows Experience Index feature that shipped in Windows Vista. Vicki joined Microsoft in 1997.
Prior to working at Microsoft, Vicki held product line management positions in several hardware companies developing image processing, video capture, graphics and telecommunications products.
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Peter Muir
BIZUCate
pmuir@bizucate.com |
Type: Instructor
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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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Lyudmyla Novosilska
RenderX, Inc.
LyudmilaN@ukrinvent.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Lyudmyla Novosilska, Project Manager, has over five years of experience in the information technology industry. Prior to RenderX, Novosilska was software engineer for Combeck Computer Design Inc., a software company.
At Combeck Computer Design Inc., Novosilska developed applications, designed and maintained databases for Canadian healthcare institutions.
Novosilska has also held software engineer position at Computer-Soft, a software company. Novosilska graduated from Kyiv State University of Technologies and Design with a Master's Degree in Computer Science.
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Mark Palmer
ProfitMetrics Inc.
mark.palmer@profitmetrics.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Mr. Palmer is the co-founder and managing director of ProfitMetrics Inc.
Prior to founding ProfitMetrics, he held senior technology positions at a Fortune 50 company, including Vice President-eCommerce, and Director-Software Development. Mr. Palmer has also founded other companies focusing on software development and publishing. One of these companies was sold to Interliant, Inc., a leading web hosting firm, where he served as Director of Product Marketing. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant with Arthur D. Little, where he worked on numerous information technology, business intelligence, and energy projects, including the development of a corporate performance measurement system for YPF, Argentina's largest company. Mr. Palmer received a B.A. in Economics from Rice University.
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Michael Panaggio
DME
mjp@dmenet.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Mike Panaggio founded Direct Mail Express in 1984 and has since built the company into a fully integrated direct marketing powerhouse. With a background in Physical Education and Sports, Mike runs DME like a professional basketball team.
DME is far from traditional. "It works for our staff and our customers," says Panaggio. "What else matters?" Mike attended SUNY Brockport, where he played 4 years of basketball for his father and two with his younger brother Dan. Team success translated quickly into business success when Panaggio ascended to the top ranks as a commodity and securities broker with Merrill Lynch and Prudential Bache in Rochester, New York.
In the early 1980's he recognized a need for personalized direct marketing services, and the desire to run his own team was too much to resist. Using his financial and marketing experience, Panaggio founded DME and grew it from a start-up company with three employees and a carload of ideas into one of the top direct marketing companies in the USA today with over 700 staff members and revenues of $100 million.
"We play fair and work hard, always putting our staff and our customers first," states Panaggio. "Our staff is professional and highly motivated to go the extra mile to ensure our customer's success. Teamwork is the key to providing a level of service that exceeds our customer's expectations."
Panaggio's vision has definitely paid off. As everyone at DME can attest to, "Working hard is fun when you are winning and playing with people you enjoy being around."
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John Parsons
Seybold Publications
jparsons@risiinfo.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: John Parsons is Editorial Director for The Seybold Report, a bimonthly journal of news, trends and in-depth analyses of technologies affecting publishers, printers, Internet providers and business communicators. He has worked in numerous sectors of the publishing communications field since 1975, and has written and spoken widely on a broad spectrum of industry topics. He resides in Bremerton, Washington, and can be reached at jparsons@risiinfo.com.
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Penny Pepper
MailBlazer
ppepper@mailblazer.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Penny Pepper Account Executive for MailBlazer, with over 25 years of experience in the variable print arena will share her expertise on what new integrated products are available for high speed laser personalization. Rising postal costs continue to put greater pressure on ROI in marketing decision making. She will show you ways of not only reducing your postage costs, but also how to reduce your printing and processing costs. Marketers in over forty countries have discovered the power of MailBlazer.
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Charles Pesko, Jr.
InfoTrends, Inc.
charlie_pesko@capv.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Mr. Pesko is the president of InfoTrends, a Questex Media Company. InfoTrends is a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industries. InfoTrends provides research, analysis, forecasts, and advice to help clients understand market trends, identify opportunities, and develop strategies to grow their businesses. Additional information about InfoTrends is available on the Web at www.infotrends.com.
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Andy Plata
COPI (Computer Output Print & Internet)
ap@outputlinks.com |
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Julie Plata
COPI (Computer Output Print & Internet)
jp@outputlinks.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Andy Plata and Julie Plata own and manage OutputLinks, the leading research and information resource for users and vendors in the high volume transaction output (HVTO) industry and COPI (Computer Output Print and Internet), a supplier of software and professional services to the HVTO industry. The two document technology experts have combined experience of more than 50 years in the HVTO industry.
OutputLinks was created by the Plata's to centralize, simplify and accelerate the sales, purchase and implementation process in the output industry, allowing both users and vendors to maximize return on their investments. Through its web portal, eNewsletters, hardcopy publications, vendor database and major conference partnerships, OutputLinks is the industry's primary information resource. With over 600 links to output solution providers world wide, an industry-specific search engine and a weekly eNewsletter, OutputLinks serves those who buy, sell, use, manage and provide resources to the global HVTO industry.
Through OutputLinks, the Platas established the HVTO Industry Recognition and Awards Program which includes the Women of Distinction, Stewardship, Vendor of Value, and the EDP Award of Merit. They also fund the HVTO Scholarship Program managed by the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF). These scholarships honor industry leaders while providing educational opportunities for students in output related studies.
As leaders in the industry, Andy and Julie have assisted hundreds of HVTO users and have served as advisors to all the major printer and software vendors, including IBM Printing Systems, Xerox Corporation and Océ Printing Systems USA. The business and technology press frequently write about the couples' business achievements and the success of their firm. Publishing house McGraw Hill included COPI's innovations in an economics textbook used at Southern Methodist University.
The couple are frequent speakers on technology, management and entrepreneurial topics. As a founding member and past Chairman of Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association, Andy traveled extensively to help establish chapters in Canada, Europe and Australia. Julie was the developer of the Laser Training Institute, one of the first output technology education resources. She served as a consultant to Kodak in the development of their initial HVTO products and assisted vendors in developing their document composition strategies.
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Rainer Prosi
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Rainer.Prosi@heidelberg.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Dr. Rainer Prosi is a high-energy particle physicist turned workflow architect working with Heidelberg since 1998. He has been involved with the Job Definition Format (JDF) project from its early phases in 1999 and is one of the primary authors of the JDF specification. He is currently working on a number of workflow and JDF related projects within Heidelberg. He is also the Chief Technical Officer of CIP4 where he is coordinating the development of the JDF specification.
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Janice Reese
Network PDF
janice@networkpdf.com |
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Paul Reilly
Compass Capital Partners, Ltd.
reillyp@comcapltd.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Mr. Reilly joined the firm in September of 2005. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Board of Cenveo, Inc., one of North America's leading printing firms. During his ten years at Cenveo, the firm grew from $17 million to almost $2 billion in sales with more than 10,000 employees and 86 plants, and numerous sales offices throughout North America. During Mr. Reilly's tenure, the company grew rapidly through acquisitions, completing some 60 acquisitions and numerous capital raisings and created over 17% CAGR in shareholder returns. Under his leadership, Cenveo was voted second place in the printing and publishing category as Fortune Magazine's Most Admired Companies of 2004 and ranked number ten of the Russell 3000 companies on Corporate Governance Quotients by Institutional Shareholder Services.
Mr. Reilly serves on the Envelope Manufacturers Association Foundation board of trustees and on the board of GATF/PIA. In addition, Mr. Reilly is the Founding Chairman of the Print Council, a business development alliance founded by leaders in the graphic arts industry to influence and promote the greater use of print media.
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Neil Rice
DME
nrice@dmenet.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Neil brings over 25 years of experience in Business Consulting, Sales, and Marketing to his role as the lead in managing integrated direct marketing program strategy and execution for customers of DME. Neil is a co-author of the current DME Marketing Labs program methodology and execution. Neil has worked with business consulting and technology firms in the area of Project Management, Sales and Marketing where he developed and managed the implementation of customer-facing solutions. He has worked with organizations including Coopers and Lybrand and as a Microsoft Partner prior to joining DME Sales Systems, a strategic sales and project management partner to DME.
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Steve Rice
Network PDF
srice13@yahoo.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Steve is an independent consultant with more than 15 years experience in Information Systems design, implementation and support. He has worked with organizations with revenues from $5M to $16B defining and leading diverse, complex, and difficult projects that advance operational efficiencies, ensure continuity of operations, improve company-wide decision-making, increase revenues, and drive cost efficiencies.
His consulting experience spans nearly a decade both as a Principle Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an independent. In addition to experience in the Print industry, he has also worked with manufacturing, distribution, and retail clients. Steve's current focus is on Print MIS and workflow integration, custom software development, and Internet workflow integration.
In recent years Steve has been working with his clients to develop automation solutions for gang run order processing, prepress workflow, imposition, and integration with MIS. His work has been featured in print industry publications and conferences. He has experience with software from Adobe, Apago, Enterprise Print Management Solutions,, Hence, Lithotechnics, Microsoft, Objective Advantage, Quark, and others. He has also worked with most major hardware vendors developing networks, data centers, disaster recovery strategies, and high performance, high availability systems.
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Kathy Rixham, EDP
Moore Wallace BCS, Division of RR Donnelley
kathy.rixham@rrd.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Kathy Rixham, EDP, of Moore Wallace, a division of RRD, has been using IBM's InfoPrint Manager on AIX for 5 years. During that time, she has become a bit of an expert in making the technology work in the service bureau environment. InfoPrint Manager/AIX servers feed jobs to IBM 4000 printers and a variety of Xerox IPS printers (4890's, 4635's, DP180's, and 92C's). Fact is, she is now called the InfoPrint Manager Goddess at Moore Wallace.
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Rebecca Rodgers, EDP
D.R. Rodgers & Assoc. Inc.
r.rodgers@sympatico.ca |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Rebecca provides business and operations support for clients, and manages Data Centre/IT projects on behalf of the client.
Rebecca has almost 30 years of business experience, 17 years in technical and operational and related fields and has a solid understanding and experience in the production output management environment. Rebecca's expertise ranges from print strategy, operational enhancement to environment changes and implementations, offering strategic alternatives or solutions for process improvement and operational sustainability.
Rebecca has successfully managed a diverse array of projects ranging from a small group of people to large complex technical and operational projects with multiple sub-projects anywhere up to a hundred people with multi million dollar budgets.
Rebecca can analyze problems and provide issue resolution in an appropriate and professional manner.
Rebecca's ability to see the big picture and recognize areas for improvement often ends up with translating issues into opportunities and offering the client additional value over and above the traditional Project Manager role.
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Thomas Rogers
Océ Printing Systems
trogers@oceprinting.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Thomas Rogers has been involved with production printing since 1981. His background includes the entire line of Océ production printers, as well as selected IBM and Xerox printers. He joined Siemens in 1990 in Munich, and came to Siemens Nixdorf printing systems in 1991. He worked in the national software support group
in Boca Raton. Most recently, he has been a product engineer developing new products for Océ.
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Riccardo Romano
Postel S.p.A.
riccardo.romano@postel.it |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Born in February 1955 in Palermo (Sicily), Riccardo Romano is married and has lived in Milan for many years. He graduated in Psychology from Padua University and then started his career in Xerox, in 1979, in the sales department. He was given increasingly senior positions, including the commercial training of staff, until he became Sales Director of Financial Services for Italy.
In 2000 he became General Director of ILTE. net and a year later he became Managing Director of Printel. In 2002 he started work for Postel, a Poste Italiane Group company, as General Director for Corporate Development, and in 2004 he became the company's Central Sales Director.
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Tamara Sargeant
Prinova, Inc.
tsargeant@prinova.com |
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Donald A. Scrima, EDP
Kodak, Inc.
donald.scrima@kodak.com |
Type: Course Chair
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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.
Mr. Scrima received his EDP certification in 1995. He has been a speaker at Xplor Global Conferences each year since 1994, primarily talking on AFP. Don has also, presented at numerous Xplor Chapter meetings, SHARE Conferences, and NaSTC conferences. Presenting topics primarily centered on AFP. He has served as President of the Xplor Citrus Chapter for 4 years, and served on the Citrus board for 7 years. Don also has served as the Southern Region President for 3 terms and VP for 3 terms. Currently, since moving to Ohio, he is serving as VP of the Ohio Chapter.
Mr. Scrima 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. Prior to joining Kodak, Don was with Océ North America (Siemens Printing Systems) as a Sr. National System Engineer and Sr. Software Trainer. He has worked at Computer Learning Center, Los Angeles teaching computer operations and programming.
Don began his AFP career with IBM's class on DOS/VSE PSF to implement AFP printing in the Operations Classes he was teaching in 1988. Since then he has developed applications for print, created resources, and provided system support for PSF on VSE, VM and MVS. He has been the instructor for Océ's PRISMA APA server and provided AFP training. And he has a vast and varied experience in AFP from working with numerous customers in providing printing solutions.
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Julie Shaffer
PIA GATF
jshaffer@piagatf.org |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Julie Shaffer is director of the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) Digital Printing Council (DPC) and heads up the Digital Business and Technology Center at PIA/GATF headquarters in Sewickley, PA. Shaffer is well known for her graphic production expertise and is often called upon for training, presentations and to provide on-site consulting throughout the world. She conducts research on diverse topics such as PDF color management and web-to-print implementation and is a frequent contributor to printing industry publications. Shaffer is co-author of a widely popular and informative book, The PDF Print Production Guide (1st and 2nd edition).
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James Shand, EDP
e-knows Consulting
jungleuk@compuserve.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: James's involvement in supporting the industry started in 1980 when he created the UK Xerox Users Group. Following his first Global conference in 1982 he was elected to the Xplor ABOD for the International Region until 1989. He has served on a number of JTCs and Xplor Committees with the accolade of being elected as the first non-American President in 1987, followed by the first to hold successive terms winning the election in 1988. He was responsible for the creation of Xplor Europe leading to the development European Regions and Chapters. 1999 saw his return to mainstream Xplor where he was elected as the UK Region ABOD representative. James became Chairman in 2001 for a further 3-year period and is a member at large today.
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Taz Tally
Taz Tally Seminars
ttallyphd@aol.com |
Type: Course Chair
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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" (a DoubleDay book club featured selection), 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., including GraphExpo, and is a member of the Photoshop Dream Team at the biannual Photoshop World conventions. 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. Taz 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. When he is not touring the country presenting his seminars, Taz generally heads off to the outdoors. Taz enjoys his home in glorious Homer Alaska where he revels in mountain biking, kayaking and hiking, nordic skiing and nature photography with his cardigan-welsh-corgi Zip. Taz has also been sighted skiing the powder snows in Utah, diving with the whales in the waters off of Hawaii and prowling the terrains of the desert southwest and Mexico. Taz is available for custom training and consulting . Contact Info . ttallyphd@aol.com
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Howard Turetzky, EDP
IBM Printing Systems
howardt@us.ibm.com |
Type: Instructor
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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 |
Type: Instructor
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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.
When he is not employing either of these skills, he lectures about them - all over the world and with passion.
Some of what time remains is spent raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust and trekking to ludicrously remote parts of the globe.
In 1998 he received his Electronic Document Professional certification and is a member of Xplor's EDP Certfication Commission.
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B. Tommie Usdin
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
btusdin@mulberrytech.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing in XML and SGML. Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been a supporter of XML since 1996. She chairs IDEAlliance's Extreme Markup Language conferences and was co-editor of "Markup Languages: Theory & Practice" published by the MIT Press. Ms. Usdin has developed DTDs, Schemas, and XML application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor documentation; historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have included print books, magazines, and journals, and both web- and media-based electronic publications.
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Steve van Niman
Postnexus
steve@postnexus.com |
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Dale Waldt
aXtive Minds, Inc.
dale@dwaldt.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Dale Waldt is a consultant specializing in XML design, development and adoption services. Dale has more than 25 years experience in XML and structured text system development for organizations focusing on commercial publishing, manufacturing, and government agencies. Dale teaches, speaks, and writes regularly on XML and Web development.
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Michael Warne, EDP
First National Bank of Omaha
mwarne@fnni.com |
Type: Instructor
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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 of Omaha, where he has worked for 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. Michael has served on the REASON (RSD Exchange Association of North America) Board of Directors for 10 years, and is currently serving as Vice President, and has taught many classes on print formats, AFP, fonts, and graphics at various user conferences and Xplor. Michael is also the Secretary 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), Xerox, PCL, fonts, graphics, SMF, and mail processing. Mike received his EDP certification in 2003.
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David Watson
Ultimate
dwatson@ultimate.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Not Available
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Chuck Weger
Elara Systems
cweger@elara.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Chuck Weger is well-known in Graphic Arts as a workflow/automation/scripting consultant, and as the inventor of "preflight." He's less well known as the host of game shows at Seybold and other national conferences, where sometimes people win valuable prizes, and sometimes they just get made fun of. He programmed his first computer decades ago (yes, Virginia, there WERE punched cards) and continues designing and building complex automated systems today. In his spare time, Chuck plays the Theremin and annoys his family by doing bad imitations of old Star Trek episodes.
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Thedra White
AIIM International
twhite@aiim.org |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Thedra White is Program Manager, Global Education Services, at AIIM. In this capacity, she is responsible for program operations, marketing and customer service for AIIM's education program. Thedra also delivers ECM training to students. She has worked closely with industry executives and AIIM's Board of Directors. Her proximity to the critical dialogue between AIIM and ECM industry leaders helped form her current work in the area of education.
Thedra holds a Master of Business Administration degree with a marketing concentration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.
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Rob Williams
Focus Solutions, LLC
rwilliams@focussolutions.com |
Type: Course Chair
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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.
Williams 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 |
Type: Instructor
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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 |
Type: Instructor
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Stephen Wowelko, EDP
AFP Application Design and Education
wowelko@juno.com |
Type: Course Chair
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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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Terry Wozniak
Eastman Kodak Company
terry.wozniak@kodak.com. |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: Terry Wozniak has over a dozen years of experience optimizing image quality and color workflows for high speed, variable data printers. Terry started his career in Research and Development at Eastman Kodak working on commercializing the continuous inkjet technology invented in Dayton, Ohio. He then moved to Engineering to help refine the systems necessary to provide a customer ready solution. Upon final product release after a successful showing at DRUPA 2000, Terry began training customers and trainers worldwide (Japan, Australia, Finland, UK, US, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore and Italy) on the principles of high speed, color, variable data, inkjet printing. He has continued to work with customers and third parties (Emtex, Sefas Innovation, GMC,PrintSoft, Group1, Exstream, ISIS and HPA) to refine and optimize color output on Kodak Versamark printers.
Kodak Versamark printing systems are capable of producing over 2,000 variable data pages per minute and have earned a well-deserved reputation for reliable, high-quality monochrome, spot color and process color output and duty cycles of up to 60 million pages per month. Starting in 2002, Kodak began installing solutions migrating monochrome and spot color AFP/IPDS workflows to full process color.
Terry blends his deep understanding of inkjet with extensive application and direct global customer experience. He is currently employed by Eastman Kodak as the Manager of the Color Solutions Department. Terry has earned 5 U.S. Patents relating to his work with Kodak and Scitex Digital Printing. He represents the Inkjet Printing Solutions division of Eastman Kodak as a member of CGATS and is an active member of the AFP Color Consortium. Terry has earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Dayton.
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Larry Zusman
Xerox Corporation
lawrence.zusman@usa.xerox.com |
Type: Instructor
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Biography: Larry Zusman is worldwide marketing manager of variable information (VI) and workflow solutions for Xerox Production Systems Group responsible for strategy and go to market initiatives for FreeFlowT personalized communications, cross media publishing and promotional transactional offerings. Zusman has an extensive background in direct marketing, advertising and print communications, serving as an executive for agencies, corporations and print providers. He is a noted seminar speaker on the subject of digital workflow and 1 to 1 marketing, and a frequent presenter at industry conferences, including Xerox Innovate events, Graph Expo, drupa 2004, AIIM/On Demand, Xplor, DMA, Printing Industries of America (PIA) conferences, corporate training seminars and regional advertising meetings. He also is a frequent contributor to graphic arts and marketing publications and online sites, including Graphic Impressions, GATF World, Digital Publishing Solutions, 1 to 1 Magazine, PrintBuyer Today, and printbuyersonline.com.
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David Zwang
Zwang & Company
david@zwang.com |
Type: Course Chair
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Biography: David Zwang is the principal consultant of Zwang & Company, a firm specializing in strategic business planning, analysis, and related services to companies in the vertical Publishing market worldwide. His experience includes an extensive background in Electronic Premedia and many printing technologies, including; Offset, Flexo, and Gravure. Zwang also offers consulting services to manufacturers on product development and marketing in the field of publishing, with a specific emphasis on data driven design, premedia, print production, and color management.
Projects include global data management solutions; book, magazine and packaging publishing technologies and processes; process collaboration systems; and color management systems.
In addition to writing many articles related to the publishing industry, he has developed a variety of courses in Process Benchmarking, Color Reproduction, PostScript and PDF Troubleshooting, and Service Bureau Management. He has been an active board member of a number of International Graphic Arts Associations and standards bodies, including Vice Chairman of the Ghent PDF Workgroup, and has lectured at many Colleges and Universities, as well as many major industry conferences.
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