JABIN
WHITE
106 Quaker Lane Home: (610) 525-1803
Villanova,
Pa. 19085 jabin@jabin.com
Senior Electronic Publishing Executive
with a unique blend of technical, management and communication skills. More than ten years of demonstrable
experience in electronic publishing.
- Frequent public speaker on XML (extensible markup
language) and related technologies.
- Deep experience in publishing technologies, markup
languages and content management.
- Co-Founder, Philadelphia XML Users Group.
Professional Experience
SILVERCHAIR,
Inc., Villanova,
PA
February 2006-Present
Vice President for Product Development
- Work
in a strategic leadership role to help customers evaluate their content
assets, advise on relevant technologies, and collaboratively determine
product and process development opportunities.
- Lead
Silverchair’s strategy development for delivering content into digital
healthcare workflow tools.
Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA October 2000-January 2006
Executive Director, Electronic Production
Led US-based Electronic Production operations
for health sciences
division of global publisher
Managed teams that support the content and application
management of such platforms as MD
Consult, Mosby’s Drug Consult,
and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) production system
Helped define company’s content structures and standards in XML
and related content standards
- Completed re-organization and improved service levels
of multimedia production group from a two-location, two-process paradigm
to a seamless department with one process in multiple locations
- Helped organize Elsevier DTDs (Document Type
Definitions) into a modular framework from which multiple DTDs could be
authored, creating cost savings and lowering maintenance effort
- Managed transition of processes of US Electronic
Production group (Harcourt) to more closely align with the processes of
the existing Elsevier infrastructure
- Established company’s first handheld publishing
capabilities, for Palm and PocketPC platforms
Unbound Medicine, Media, PA May
2000-October 2000
Content Specialist
- Oversaw
all aspects
of company’s use of XML and related standards
- Wrote
DTD for company’s first “Unbound” family
of products
- Served
as content liaison between authors and company
- Charged
with building authoring system to allow authors to submit structured
content for a variety of products
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA August 1997–May 2000
Senior Manager, SGML/XML Group
- Initiated
and oversaw company's SGML/XML initiative, including education/marketing
program on SGML for all employees
- Conceptualized
and led design of customized version of MS
Word (internally called Edit2000) to enable SGML tagging by non-SGML
editors
- Managed
SGML conversion project consisting of 151 medical and nursing
journals for output on platforms such as Ovid and HighWire, and for
internal use
Mosby, St. Louis, MO August 1995–August 1997
Database Publishing Editor; and
Editor I
- Managed
all aspects
of Mosby’s GenRx CD-ROM, including production, assistance with
marketing strategies, and coordination of technical support
- Designed
and implemented Mosby's first "unlockable" CD-ROM product
- Named
Mosby "Star Performer" in
September, 1996
Current Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 1994-1995 1994-1995
Editorial Assistant
- Assisted
in development of new projects,
including Wooliscroft: Current Diagnosis and Treatment
- Responsible
for all administrative aspects of two projects; Mandell: Atlas of Infectious Diseases
and Yanoff: Atlas of Ophthalmology
Education
Bachelor of Arts,
History, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Masters in Business
Administration, Pennsylvania State University,
Great Valley/Malvern, PA
(in process), scheduled to complete in
December, 2007.
Presentations
& articles
Technical
Training/skills
Office Productivity
Software
Microsoft Office Expert, MS Project, MS Visio WordPerfect
Quark Xpress Adobe
PhotoShop
HTML Editors Web Pages Designed
Alaire HomeSite www.jabin.com
HotDog Pro www.billrettberg.com
Coffee Cup HTML www.simply-funds.com
Microsoft
FrontPage Others available on
request
XML/SGML Editors Programming
XMetal PERL
XML Spy ASP (Active Server
Pages)
FrameMaker+SGML Visual Basic Studio
ArborText Adept (Epic) SQL (Structured Query
Language)