Tizra

Dr. David G. Durand. David has been working with markup languages and hypertext since 1984, contributing to standards including XML, XLink, WebDAV, and TEI. With Steven DeRose he is co-author of Making Hypermedia Work: A User’s Guide to HyTime. He has worked on projects for West, McGraw-Hill, the European Molecular Biology Organization (E-BioSci, ORIEL), IBM, and Sun, among others. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Boston University, and and until this year was Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.

Abe Dane. Abe has been working in publishing and e-commerce for 20 years, at Popular Mechanics, Hearst New Media, MIT, and Ingenta. At Hearst in 1994, he launched the company’s first magazine branded web site, and then was founding editor of HomeArts, a magazine portal that became one of the web’s top ad revenue earners. He then started his own company, which developed a photo e-commerce system sold to Eastman Kodak. At Ingenta, he worked on projects for organizations including Oxford University Press and Gale, and headed development of information commerce and custom website software. Prior to 1994, he was a technology journalist, reporting from Sarajevo, the Arctic and the back seat of an F-15 fighter for Popular Mechanics. His work earned an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship in 1993.

Francisco Assis Rosa. Francisco is an active open source contributor, with over fourteen years of experience in software development, analysis and architecture. Before Tizra, Francisco worked at Ingenta as manager of US development where he and his group were responsible for the delivery of several multi-million dollar projects. He is author of several papers on software design patterns. Project clients have included McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, the World Bank, and the British Standards Institute. He previously worked at LEMAC CDC, INESC, Hibbitt Karlsson & Sorensen. He received his Masters degree in Computer Science at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon.

Anne Orens. Anne has 25 years of experience in publishing-related sales, marketing, and business development, in addition to a stint managing knowledge management and consulting products and projects at the Mitchell Madison Group. Her publishing experience includes work at the University of Chicago Press, the American Mathematical Society and Little, Brown & Co., and most recently Ingenta, where she was Director of North American Business Development. She recently completed a term as co-chair of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Education Committee