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William Reilly

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SUMMARY

An experienced XML specialist, technology manager, hands-on developer, and information architect (Master's in Library & Information Studies), with fifteen years experience of direct responsibility for managing from concept to launch the successful development of information application products and online publications, in a leadership Technology Management or Technical Architect role.

OBJECTIVE

To apply my XML specialization knowledge, systems analysis experience, and project management skills in a role of lead technical analyst, on a large-scale educational or publishing information system project, involving complex system requirements and program specifications, and including central responsibility for close liaison with a variety of concerned parties.

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

- XML: XML; DTD; W3C Schema, XSLT; XSL-FO; XPath; DocBook; XPointer; SVG; WML; XHTML; CSS; Relax NG; RSS; RDF/XML; XML Topic Maps

- Tools: XML Spy & Stylesheet Designer; Emacs; Epic Editor; XMetal; Eclipse (XML Buddy); eWebEditPro; Mozilla; Linux KDE K Desktop Environment; MS-Office/Visio/Project; OpenOffice.org; Stylus XSL Studio

- Metadata, Libraries, Educational: MARC; Dublin Core; IEEE/IMS LOM, QTI; ANSI/NISO .86 Digital Talking Book; DAISY (Digital Audio-based Information SYstem). Course Management Systems: WebCT; Blackboard. Academic Management Systems: SCT; Campus Pipeline (web portal)

- Content Management Systems: Open Market/divine Content Server; Interwoven TeamSite; Apache Cocoon/Lenya; Open Source in-house; Movable Type weblogs

- Languages: XSLT; Java; XHTML; Perl; Ant; bash; LotusScript Notes/Domino

- Environments: Unix/Linux Red Hat 9, FreeBSD (some admin); Windows XP Pro/2000 (some admin); Apache/Tomcat; IIS/Index Server; CVS

- Practices: Information Modelling (XML; Relational DB); J2EE; Rational Unified Process; (WebML; Object-oriented A/D; UML)

MAJOR ORGANIZATIONS EXPERIENCE

Client: Harcourt Publishers; Blackwell's Booksellers; I.B.M.; AT&T; Xerox; Fleet Bank; Bank of America; US Patent & Trademark Office.

Employer: Thomson Publishing; U.C. Berkeley Libraries; European University Institute; U.S. Navy.

WORK HISTORY

CAST, Inc

. (Wakefield, Massachusetts) 2004-current (contract position)

Independent

Contractor, Senior XML Programmer/Analyst

- Educational not-for-profit organization. "Universal Design for Learning." Founded 1984.

- IEEE/IMS LOM (Learning Objects Metadata), QTI (Question Test Interoperability)

- ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Digital Talking Book; DAISY (Digital Audio-based Information SYstem)

- Apache Cocoon XML, XSD, XPointer, RDF, XSLT, Java architecture

- Project: Enhancing Read-Aloud Computer-Based Testing (CBT)

- Sponsor: New England Compact, Enhanced Assessment Grant (NEC-EAG)

Digitas, LLC

(Boston, Massachusetts) 1998-2003V.P./Associate Director, Technology - Content Management Practice

- Technology Lead responsibility: Delivered on schedule, within budget, large corporation website presentation layer builds:

- Recent technologies (2000-2003) XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS, Java, Ant, Content Server (CMS)

Fleet Bank (three portals); Millennium Pharmaceuticals; Xerox. (Also, XHTML/XSLT e-mail system for Bank of America; Best Buy

)

- Older technologies (

1998

-1999) Perl, CGI, HTML, SSI, PHP. Also Notes/Domino.

Harcourt Publishers; AT&T; I.B.M.

- Harcourt Publishers. Evaluated and delivered executive-level recommendations re: third party vendors of online higher education academic and course management systems:

- NETg, IMS-based CBT learning systems development and course content learning objects creation and packaging.

- WebCT & Blackboard, online course delivery systems evaluation

- SCT, academic management systems evaluation

- Campus Pipeline, SCT partner for web portal delivery of functionality, evaluation

- Archipelago, web-based learning delivery and high-end, sophisticated course content learning objects development.

- Harcourt Publishers. Researched and recommended strategies for development of the online Library for Harcourt's planned online degree-granting Harcourt University (harcourthighered.com).

- Conceived, designed, architected, implemented, extensively documented (DocBook), and trained client on use of open source website build system: "XML-2-HTML."

- Designed and implemented WYSIWYG XHTML/XSLT e-mail content management system for multiple campaigns, clients, personalization metadata, output formats

- Conceived, designed, developed and rolled out Lotus Notes/Domino web-based Bug Reporting system ("Page Problem Report" (PPR)) for use in website development.

- Created cooperative team environment with colleagues (Creative, Marketing, Usability, Copywriters, Information Architects).

- Communicated the importance of Technology role in defining "upstream" information architecture work products (wireframes; sitemap; comps; content gap analysis & plan; naming conventions; functionality requirements capture; etc.).

- Delivered successful projects on schedule. Managed project scoping/estimating; planning; staffing/resourcing; project management; quality assurance; deliverables definition and packaging.

- Taught five internal cross-departmental formal training sessions (primarily on XML technologies)

- Helped develop "DUP": Digitas version of "RUP" (Rational Unified Process); successfully applied results to pilot project (Millennium Pharmaceuticals).

- Technology Consultant roles:

Evaluation of multiple business units' technology & content, for recommendation to senior management (Harcourt Publishers)

Senior-level technology client liaison during large-scale website development (Xerox.com re-launch)

Technology Assessment reports

New Business proposals, RFPs, client presentations

- Practitioner, knowledgeable, of Dublin Core metadata standards, W3C web standards, 508 Accessibility standards (including voice readers for the blind), modern CSS & XHTML usage, Bobby Web Standards, W3C XHTML Tidy, PURLs

Dataware Technologies

(Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1996-1998Intranet Webmaster/Software Reuse Initiative Coordinator

- Lotus Notes application development/systems administration

- Knowledge Management suite product in-house use, testing

Thomson Publishing / Research Publications

(New Haven, Connecticut) 1990-1995Senior Technology Analyst/Developer

- United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). (

1990

-1994) Thomson Publishing CD-ROMs contract with USPTO for all issued patents. I analyzed specification and sample source bibliographic metadata for patents, created specifications for programming to our CD-ROM database format, devised sophisticated multiple-PC systems for patent page JPEG imaging processing, and designed user interfaces for retrieval and presentation.

- Electronic Publishing, college and high school market CD-ROM hypertext multimedia titles:

(

1992-1995) Broadcast News (quarterly) and American Journey (series). Smaller scale projects I architected, designed, implemented, and managed technically, devising database designs and metadata for process management as well as bibliographic information retrieval. Broadcast News included sub-project of online thesaurus design, construction, and supporting software development.

- MARC data project for Blackwell's Booksellers & Thomson Publishing (1995)

Bookscope CD-ROM of enhanced MARC data from Blackwell's, included Table of Contents and additional, proprietary subject heading assignments, recorded in special MARC fields. I prepared entire detailed extended MARC specification, enabling Thomson C programmers to process MARC data records into our CD-ROM database format. Worked with LOC MARC official specifications documents.

European University Institute (Florence, Italy); Pubblicit Oggi

(Milan, Italy) 1988-1990Bibliographic Database Specialist

- Worked in Italian-speaking libraries, offices

United States Navy

(San Diego, California) 1981-1985Shipboard Communications Officer

- N.R.O.T.C. 4-year Scholarship

EDUCATION

M.L.I.S

., 1987

University of California,

Berkeley

School of Library and Information Studies

B.A

. English and American Literatures, 1981

College of the Holy Cross

CONTINUING EDUCATION

- Harvard Extension School

2003

- Web Development with XML

2002 - eBusiness Applications using XML and Java

2000 - Introduction to Java Programming

1999 - Practical Perl

PARTNER TRAINING

- CMS Partner Bootcamp Training Courses (5-day)

2003 - Interwoven TeamSite

2002 - Content Server (Open Market/divine)

2000 - Art Technology Group - Dynamo JHTML

- Sun Java Training Courses (5-day)

2001 - J2EE Architect

2000 - Java Developer

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