April 20-21, 2006
Radisson Hotel Annapolis
210 Holiday Court
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: 410-224-3150
Fax: 410-224-3413

Final Agenda

Wednesday, April 19th

Thursday, April 20th

Bio:  Anna Bradley founded Criterion 508 Solutions, Inc. in 2001 to provide federal agencies and contractors with comprehensive Section 508 compliance solutions and to create IT career opportunities for people with disabilities. With more than a 15 years of experience in executive management and eLearning consulting, Anna brings a wealth of technical knowledge and vision to the company. Anna, who also has earned two graduate degrees and completed the Doctoral program (ABD) in Educational Leadership from Drake University, has helped Criterion emerge as the industry's leading Section 508 compliance solutions provider!

Bio:  Bill Sanders has been actively involved in the print and document management industries for over 30 years. He spent the first 16 years of his career at Xerox Corporation in various field and management level positions. Working as an analyst, systems specialist, application engineer and manager provided Bill global insight into customer issues surrounding printing and the type of needs for more robust workflow solutions that were not readily available.

In 1992 Bill saw the need to provide more customer-tailored solutions and started ISI, Inc., a consulting company to help customers bridge shortcomings in their printing processes and technology through integration services. With his wealth of knowledge in the datastreams, host environments and printers, Bill was able to build a highly successful business and satisfied customer base by integrating different environments and augmenting data, which allowed customer's to take advantage of the hardware they had in place or upgrade to newer technologies that was not previously possible.

In 1998, Bill transitioned ISI, Inc. into NearStar, Inc. and started developing software, which allowed an increase in the level of integration services and overall products that could be provided to customers as well as better solutions to complex workflows. Bill is currently the President and co-founder of NearStar, Inc., which provides software and consulting services that include output management, data transforms, document creation and data augmentation etc. to all vertical markets. NearStar's customer base is made up of the Fortune 1,000 and top state and local government organizations.

Once the desired action has resulted, often a payment, the document moves to storage, the second stage. The document now is an historical representation of a period of time such as a statement showing 30 days of transactions. At this point knowing where a piece of information was originally placed on the page makes it much easier to discuss a document with a customer in a help-desk situation. An integrated document archival system that accepts the printstream or document in a direct process, retaining not only the valuable content of the structured transactional pages but also the equally important positional information of that content provides a tool to mine and view the important one-to-one information that has been stored.

This consistency of presentation, from carefully built document to help desk to marketing department datamining, is a key element of a well-designed system for managing documents that express your business.

Bio:  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/SGML 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.

Bio:  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".

Bio:  Doug Clark has been in the paper industry for twenty seven years presenting a number of seminars the latest of which is The Standard.

Bio:  Education: Dartmouth College
Work Experience:

• Five years selling mainframe computers, software and services for IBM
• Twenty nine years with Xerox in Production Printing & Publishing
• Product Marketing Manager, 9790/8790
• Product Marketing Manager, Continuous Feed Printing
• District Systems Sales Manager
• Sales Operations Manager
• Region Manager, Printing Systems Sales
• Worldwide Marketing Manager, Production Printing & Publishing

Bio:  Mike Phipps, Senior Technical Marketing Consultant, IBM, over 25 years experience in the Data Processing environment, most of that dealing with output. For the last 5 years, Mike has been working in IBM's Printing Systems Division. His primary role at IBM is to manage the design, development, marketing, and support of IBM's output management solutions in the I/T industry. While at IBM, Mike has held various technical marketing and management positions, including Solutions Consultant, Principal, and most recently Complex Solutions Manager. Prior to IBM, Mike worked at Xerox Corporation, Printing Systems & Software division for 15 years in various technical, instructional, and marketing roles, focused on output management and document content production.

Bio:  President, Whitmore Group, Past Chairman of the Printing Industries of Maryland, Graduate of RIT with degrees in Photo and Business Administration.