Paul Crook

7 Prospect Ave, Apt 1 Greenfield MA 01301 (413) 774-6251 paul2007 at paulcrook.net http://www.paulcrook.net/paul.htm

Summary of Qualifications Thirteen years of SGML experience. Conversion to and from SGML/XML. DTD creation. Customization of authoring/publishing systems and content management systems. Perl text processing and CGI programming. Unix system administration. Languages Perl, XSL, DSSSL, Omnimark, Emacs Lisp, ArborText Command Language Applications Saxon and libxml2 (XSL), Jade (DSSSL), ArborText, XPP (Xyvision), Emacs, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator Platforms Unix/Linux, Windows, Macintosh Professional Experience 1998 - Present Paul Crook Consulting

Greenfield MA http://www.paulcrook.net/

Consultant and Contractor Instrumental in publishing of American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition (AHD4) in HTML, PDF, and on CD-ROM. Created processing tools and workflow for recording of 70,000 pronunciations for AHD4. Created software tools to help clients with in-house XML conversion and XML file evaluations. Wrote examples for Ziff-Davis University XML course. DTD development, SGML/XML consulting, and reference work conversion for customers including Houghton Mifflin, Information Please, Random House, and Lycos. 1997 - 1998 Information Please, LLC

Boston MA http://www.infoplease.com/

Electronic Reference Specialist Refined production environment for Information Please Almanacs. Evaluated and purchased hardware and services for internal and external web servers and development. 1994 - 1997 Inso Corporation

Boston MA http://www.inso.com/

Database Developer Wrote reusable conversion tools for a large number and variety of reference works. Customized authoring and production environment for the Information Please Almanacs. Education 1985-1988 University of Rochester

Rochester NY http://www.rochester.edu/

Spent three years in Computer Science/Math/Psychology curriculum.