Overview

Desktop publishing, page layout, and design implementation. My experience includes:

•	books, magazines, and brochures (b/w and color)
•	expertise in Quark XPress and Word
•	template creation in Quark and Word for both MacOS and Windows users
•	in-depth understanding of publishing, pre-press and printing requirements
•	knowledge of Illustrator, Freehand, DeBabelizer, Photoshop, and other graphics programs and utilities
•	familiarity with Pagemaker and FrameMaker
•	broad experience with Macintosh, Windows and DOS platforms; Novell administration
•	over 25 years experience in typesetting and page layout

My involvement with traditional typesetting and desktop publishing includes work in most areas of commercial printing and publishing.

Professional History

4/1993 – present	PEACHPIT PRESS, Berkeley, CA Providing freelance production, template, and page-layout services for many titles, including The Windows 98 Bible, The Macintosh Bible–6th Edition, The BeOS Bible, Director Demystified, The PC Bible, The Little PC Book, and Firewire Filmmaking, as well as four-color catalogs and book series. Primary tools include QuarkXPress, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, DeBabelizer, and Acrobat.
6/2003 – present	SIERRA CLUB BOOKS, San Francisco, CA Provide freelance production, template, and page-layout services for many titles, including Land Navigation Handbook, Walking Softly in the Wilderness, Caribou Rising, and Galen Rowell: A Retrospective. Also create four-color brochures, catalogs, and mailers. Primary tools include InDesign, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat.
10/1997 – 2/2004	TIKKUN MAGAZINE, San Francisco, CA & New York, NY Provided design and production services for Tikkun, an 80-page bimonthly magazine. Also created four-color brochures, mailers, advertisements, and book design. Primary tools included QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat.
9/1998 – 3/2001	CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, New York, NY Provided book design and composition services. Titles included The Elements of Java Style and E-Enterprise.
8/1987 – present	Various typesetting and desktop publishing projects, Bay Area. Clients include:   Actioneer, Inc.   Apple Computer, Inc.   Design & Direction   HOT Studio   Hunza Graphics   Infoworld   Irene Nelson Design Associates   KQED Books   Lonely Planet   Morgan Kaufmann   Macromedia Press   MacWEEK   MAX Graphics   SIGS Publications   SPEC Design   Sunset Books   Sybex   to·the·point publishing   TouchDown Publications   YO! Design
1/1989 – 1/1997	ORTHO BOOKS, San Ramon, CA Provided freelance production services and typesetting for books, catalogs, a travel magazine, and collateral materials. Produced book-cover typography for over 80 titles. Created Quark XPress templates for a six-book series. Created a style-coding scheme to convert source in an Atex typesetting system to Postscript for all of Ortho’s titles.   Participated in a Printing and Prepress Technology Assessment Team, which included establishing technical qualifications for vendors and reporting on state-of-the-art typesetting and desktop publishing technology.   Provided network administration services for a Novell LAN, which included installing a Novell file server, performing network upgrades, providing extensive user training, and keeping the LAN running well day to day.
11/1993 – 8/1994	THE SOLARIS GROUP, MONSANTO CORP., San Ramon, CA Provided network administration services, which included setting up e-mail services using cc:Mail, analyzing requirements and budget projections, installing a Novell file server, and supporting cc:Mail services for a 146-user network. Also provided extensive user training. Integrated e-mail services with corporate headquarters and third parties using MCIMail.
9/1991 – 11/1993	CHEVRON CHEMICAL CO., San Ramon, CA Provided network administration services, including analyzing requirements and budget projections, and installing Novell file and communications servers. Wrote network menuing scripts, installed network applications, and created user configurations. Responsible for network administration.
8/1987 – 1/1992	COMPAGE COMPANY, San Francisco, CA Worked as a desktop publisher, which included producing computer manuals, books, and magazines. Developed state-of-the-art desktop publishing techniques. Developed templates and style sheets according to designers’ specifications. Trained personnel, estimated project budgets, and coordinated the efforts of formatters, proofreaders, and service bureaus to meet production schedules.
2/1987 – 8/1987	THE TYPE CYCLE, Berkeley, CA Worked as a computer typesetter, which included production publishing as well as integrating computer-to-typesetter communications for local publishers.
3/1986 – 2/1987	Worked as a freelance cabinet maker. Clients included Nelson & Peterson General Contractors, Berkeley, CA
9/1984 – 3/1986	GENERAL TRANSFORMATION CORPORATION, Berkeley, CA Worked as a test engineer, which included testing and documenting an Ada compiler as well as developing features for a file comparison utility that won editorial acclaim in the national PC press. Other software development tasks included work on a screen manager program, a file matcher, and a source code control system, and in-house tools.
10/1981 – 11/1985	HUNZA GRAPHICS, Berkeley, CA Worked as chief typesetter for a busy commercial printing and graphics business. Designed typefont format for Middle-Eastern transliteration. Wrote brochures on tele-typesetting. Provided customer support for telecommunications.
1/1978 – 9/1981	TYPO TECH, Cambridge, MA Worked as typesetter for the company that originated the do-it-yourself approach that became the model for desktop publishing service bureaus nationwide a decade later. Typeset everything from classified ads to billboards. Wrote formats, typeset jobs in eight different languages, trained staff and customers, wrote training manuals, and initiated an inventory control system.
6/1974 – 6/1977	INTRAMEDIA ASSOCIATES, Boston, MA Performed all typesetting services for this advertising/graphics agency.
6/1973 – 6/1974	CABOT CORPORATION, Boston, MA Worked as compositor, which included designing, ruling, and setting business forms in the composition department of this Fortune 500 company.
Interests	Gardening (bonsai), carpentry, early music, and harpsichord construction & repair.
References	Available on request.
Memberships	National Association of Desktop Publishers

Software Experience

Standalone Computer Software Experience:

	Desktop Publishing: MacOS: Quark XPress 1.11, 2.0, 2.12, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.11, 5.0, 6.0, 7.5   Quark XPress Passport 3.2, 3.3 InDesign 2.0, CS, CS2, CS3 PageMaker 2.0a, 3.0 FrameMaker 3.0, 4.0 DesignStudio 1.01 Ready,Set,Go! 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 5.1	Windows and DOS: PageMaker 1.0a
	Graphics: MacOS: DeBabelizer 1.55, 1.6, 3.0.1, 5.0.1 Freehand 2.02, 3.0, 5.5 Illustrator 2.0, 3.0.1, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 10.0, CS, CS2, CS3 Photoshop 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, CS, CS2, CS3 Adobe Acrobat 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 PitStop Professional 5.03, 6.0.1, 6.5 SuperPaint 1.5, 2.0 MacDraw, MacPaint	Windows and DOS: HotShot screen image graphic processor Lotus FreeLance
	Word Processing: MacOS: Microsoft Word 1.05, 3.01, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.01, 98, X    MacWrite WordPerfect 1.0, 2.0	Windows and DOS: Microsoft Word 2.01, 6.0, 6.1, 97 WordPerfect 4.0, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1 Epsilon, The Final Word, C-Source, XyWrite III+
	Text Utilities: Add/Strip 3.03, 3.41 Torquemada 1.1.0 Omnipage Pro 7.0
	Programming: Ada, Pascal, and Basic programming languages MS-DOS Batch processing IBM ROM BIOS interrupt calls
	Other Software: MSOffice 6.0, 98, X; Windows 3.1, 95, 98 FileMaker 4.0, FileMaker Pro 2.0, 3.0, 6.0 (Mac & Windows) Excel 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 98, X (Mac); Lotus 1-2-3 ver. 2.2, 2.3 (DOS) QEMM 6.0 memory management (DOS); PCAnyWhere Beyond Compare file comparison program (DOS); MAP Modular Audit Program (both Mac and DOS) MacLink Plus file conversion program (Mac & DOS); Blueberry file-conversion program (DOS) Hayes SmartCom, PC-Talk, Red Ryder, & Microphone II telecommunications (Mac & DOS) Navigator & Explorer Web browsers; AppleLink, CompuServe, & Connect communications software

Network Software Experience:

Novell NetWare version 2.11, 2.15, 3.11 Novell NetWare for Macintosh 1.0, 1.01, 2.0, 2.1 Lotus ccMail (level 6 & 7) AutoMenu, Saber, and Novell menu systems Paradox database applications EtherPeek ethernet packet analyzer (Mac)

Lotus 1-2-3 ver. 2.2 & 2.3 network versions WordPerfect 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 network version WordPerfect Office LAN (both DOS and Mac) XyWrite III+ network version Mountain Tape and MaynStream backup software PowerChute NLM; ViruSafe ver. 4.5, 4.55

Hardware Experience

Typesetting Equipment Experience:

AM Comp/Set 500, 3500, 3560, 4510, 5404; AM Comp/Edit 5810, 5900; AM Harris 4800 Context optical character reader; Videck paper tape reader Zenith/Heathkit PC as typesetting front end; IBM Composer; Varityper Compositor; VariType Headliner