As we begin another year, it is fitting to recognize the XyUser Group Board of Directors. Currently, there are 15 Board members, all of whom are SDL customers and volunteers on the Board. In addition, SDL  has a representative, Carol Bumbaca, who serves on the Board. With the Executive Director Bob Carr, the Board meets a minimum of three times per year. The first meeting is usually in January and the agenda for this two-day meeting is primarily focused on the year’s conference(s).

The second meeting is held in May, after the Strategic Planning Committee meeting at SDL  headquarters in Massachusetts. This meeting finalizes the upcoming conference and approves the conference budget. The Board then meet immediately before the fall conference to sort any last minute items and then have a brief meeting after to check on the feedback from the Conference.

The current officers of the XyUser Board are:

Chris Leggett, President (Letterpart Ltd.)

Chuck Dombek, First Vice President (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Bart Terryn, Second Vice President (Grafikon)

Sue Miller, Secretary (Financial Accounting Foundation)

Chris McMahon, Treasurer (American Institute of Physics)

Other long-time Board members are:

Larry Porter (Underwriters Laboratories)

Robbie McNeil (Bureau of National Affairs)

Simcha Gralla (IBM)

Karl Elvin (American Medical Association)

Don Sawyer (LexisNexis)

Carol Bumbaca (SDL  representative)

 

Newly elected Board members (within the last year) and a brief bio of each are as follows:

 JoAnn Armstrong (Gilson Graphics) Jo Armstrong
Jo was introduced to typography during high school when she began working for a local weekly newspaper, the Anita Tribune Newspaper.

After high school, she worked for The Clarinda Company on a Penta composition system then on XyVision composition systems in the late  1980s. She did both pagination and system management on the XPP system. Later at Clarinda Jo transferred into project, production and account management.  She has been with Gilson Graphics as Manager of composition since 2002. Gilson does composition using XPP, QuarkXPress and InDesign. She oversees project specifications and schedules, project management and assists with technical sales.

 

 

 Sam McCollum (Cadmus Communications) Sam_McCollum1

Sam began working for William Byrd Press in 1978 as a paste-up artist in Springfield, Virginia. His first work with electronic pagination was with an Atex system. He worked on that with Roger Jackson – one of the original XyUser Board Members.  In those days it was just simple one column pages. The trend around 1983 was to create small teams that included all the production elements: keyboarding, proofreading, and pagination. Pagination included Xyvision and manual paste-up. Sam was the team co-leader of one of the team, responsible for production.

 In 1984 Sam had his first training on Xyvision.  Roger Jackson gave the class and it was a couple of weeks. He was still responsible for production but dabbled in the Xyvision system.  In 1985 William Byrd Press became Cadmus Communications, a public company. Sam transferred to the Richmond office and began working in Xyvision full time. He paginated journal articles and book pages, as well as working with style development. In 1995 Cadmus bought Waverly Press in Baltimore and he managed the style developers on XPP for both sites.

 Sam left Cadmus for a while and eventually returned in December 2001 as Director of Customer Service. In 2003 he became the General Manager for the Richmond site and later became Vice President and General Manager for the Richmond site.

In January 2008 Sam took over the responsibility for the business side for all the Cadmus Content Services applications including testing with the exception of XPP. With Roger Jackson’s retirement in September 2009 Sam assumed responsibility for all Cadmus Content Services applications. He is currently Director of Electronic Support and has 30 people spread around 3 sites.

 

Jaye Mize (Federal Reserve Board)

Jay_MizeJaye Mize joined The Federal Reserve Board Publications Department in 2007.  Her current job title is Publishing Technology Analyst, Design and Publishing Center.  Prior to her current position, Mize worked as a Publishing Software Consultant in Chicago.  She continues to serve as a publishing system consultant to the American Medical Association, as she has since 1998.  Her association with the AMA began in 1991 shortly after they purchased their XPP system.

 Her association with SDL  began in the late 1980s when she was employed by a printing company in Senatobia, Mississippi that purchased what is now an XPP system.

 

 David Van Brunt (Accenture)

bod_Dave_Van_BruntDave began working with XPP for Ziff Davis Education/Element K from 1999 to 2004 in Rochester NY in an XML environment.   He moved to New Jersey in 2004 and began working as a XPP consultant for Educational Testing Service. In 2005 after the Publishing Supply chain was outsourced from ETS to

Accenture, he became a permanent employee with Accenture as the Manager of the XPP/XML development team and currently serves in this position.

 

David Henkel (Vintage Filings a PR Newswire company)

bod_David_HenkelDavid Henkel's first foray into XPP was in 1999 at Capital Printing. This introduction to XPP piqued an interest in the behind the scenes functionality of the software and PERL as an integrated tool. In 2001, David stepped into the role of lead operator at AXA Financial, responsible for style development and XPP system administration. In 2005, Vintage Filings, then an emerging EDGAR filing agent, came to him for help to transform the company to a full service financial printer. A successful installation and setup of an XPP based typeset department, achieved that goal. The department and the core business continues to grow and prosper, under David's direction.