Whim

William Reilly

47 Kingston
Street

Somerville,
Massachusetts 02144 (617) 491-7126

william@reilly2001.info http://reilly2001.info

* SUMMARY
*

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

*
OBJECTIVE *

Apply my XML
specialization skills to information-intensive applications, in
particular those facing the challenges presented by less-structured
or semi-structured content that needs to be organized for ease of
information retrieval and delivered to a variety of highly
professional presentation formats as well as machine-readable
outputs. (Preferred J2EE/open-source environment.)

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TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

- XML: XML; DTD; XSLT;
XPath; DocBook; XHTML; CSS; XSD; (Relax NG; RSS; RDF/XML; XML Topic
Maps; Dublin Core; WSDL)

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

- CMS: 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 (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)

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WORK HISTORY

Digitas, LLC
(Boston, Massachusetts) 1998-2003

V.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 e-mail
system for Bank of America; Best Buy)

- Older technologies
(1998-1999) Perl, CGI, HTML, SSI, PHP

Harcourt
Publishers; AT&T; FedEx

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

- Designed and implemented
XSLT-based WYSIWYG XHTML 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.

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

- Consistently created
cooperative cross-functional team environment with colleagues
(Creative, Marketing, Usability, Copywriters, Information
Architects), ensuring understanding of Technology role in helping
define "upstream" information architecture work products
(wireframes; sitemap; comps; content gap analysis & plan; naming
conventions; functionality requirements capture; etc.).

- Consistently managed
successful project scoping/estimating; planning; staffing/resourcing;
project management; quality assurance; deliverables definition and
packaging.

- 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
executive 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

Dataware Technologies
(Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1996-1998

Intranet
Webmaster/Software Reuse Initiative Coordinator

- Lotus Notes application
development/systems administration

Research Publications
/ Thomson Publishing (New Haven, Connecticut) 1990-1995

Senior Technology
Analyst/Developer

- Hypertext front-end,
image processing, and database-backed CD-ROM title development

Pubblicita Oggi
(Milan, Italy); European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
1988-1990

Database Specialist

- Worked in
Italian-speaking offices; taught database course; managed computer
network

United States Navy
(San Diego, California) 1981-1985

Shipboard Communications
Officer

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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

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CONTINUING EDUCATION

- Harvard Extension School

2004 - (*forthcoming*)
J2EE and XML; 2003 - (current) Web Development with XML

2001 - eBusiness
Applications using XML; 2000 - Introduction to Java Programming

1999 - Practical Perl

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TRAINING

- CMS Partner Bootcamp
Training Courses (5-day)

2003 - Interwoven
TeamSite; 2002 - Content Server (Open Market/divine)

- Sun Java Training
Courses (5-day)

2000 - Java
Developer; 2001 - J2EE Architect

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REFERENCES

Available upon request.