PDF Day

Presenter: Henry Sal, Computing System Innovations

Henry Sal is the president of Computing System Innovations.  His software development career spans 40 years, 30 of which have been at CSI.  The past 15 of those have been spent making CSI into one of America’s leading redaction software vendors, with the last 3 years spent leading CSI’s transition to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence for document classification, data extraction, FOIA and redaction.  Software the CSI team invented has processed over 7 billion pages of unstructured data.  Mr. Sal has been a guest speaker at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA).

Presenter: Jonathan Rhyne, PSPDFKit

Jonathan is the COO and co-founder of PSPDFKit GmbH, a company focused on increasing productivity around the globe by providing robust PDF solutions to companies and end-users. He handles everything from project management, sales, marketing, HR to managing the finances and legal affairs of the company. Prior to founding PSPDFKit, Jonathan practiced at a well respected law firm in the US, guiding software companies in the mobile software industry through the proverbial jungle of their business and legal needs. Outside of work, you can find him spending time with his wife and two young kids, playing soccer, or taking photos.

Presenter: Carsten Heiermann, Foxit Europe

Carsten is Chief Executive Officer of Foxit Europe. Carsten joined Foxit after the company acquired LuraTech Imaging, a business he founded and grew into a leading provider of PDF and PDF/A solutions that enable document conversion and compression at scale. Carsten is a founding member of the PDF Association and serves on its board of directors. He obtained his degree in engineering from the University of Wuppertal.

Presenter: Bevi Chagnon, PubCom

Bevi Chagnon heads up PubCom, one of Washington’s leading consultancies for government publishing in cross-media — print, web, digital, Acrobat PDF, and accessibility. Many in government know her from classes at the US Government Publishing Office where she’s a senior instructor for digital media and accessibility.

Presenter: Adam Spencer, Accessibil-IT

Adam Spencer is the Head of Accessibility Services for Accessibil-IT Inc, the global leader in PDF accessibility services. As an active member on a number of ISO Committees for PDF and PDF Accessibility, as well as the Canadian Vice-Chair of the Standards Council of Canada for PDF related technologies. Adam continues to be an active contributor to the development of the new international standards known as PDF/UA to ensure the accessibility and usability of PDF and adaptive technologies.

Presenter: Paul Rayius, Commonlook

As CommonLook’s Accessibility Training Manager, since 2013 Paul Rayius has worked with a variety of health care organizations, local, state, and federal government agencies, financial institutions, colleges and universities, and more, to assist them in meeting their PDF accessibility needs.  In addition to his expertise with the CommonLook suite of tools for testing, creating, and remediating PDFs, Mr. Rayius is also well versed in accessibility standards including Section 508 (including the recent “refresh”), Health and Human Services (HHS), WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA.

Presenter: Drew Sprague, Solimar Systems

Drew Sprague is President of Solimar Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of production printing and electronic document delivery solutions. A co-founder of the company, Mr. Sprague has nearly 30 years of experience in designing and developing innovative output management solutions. Mr. Sprague holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Presenter: John Lynch, Compart

Since 1984 John Lynch has been involved with high-speed production print and the management of documents.  He has been on both the customer and vendor sides of the industry.  He holds 5 U.S. Patents and has worked with companies and government agencies facilitating the production of documents.  He currently is the Vice President of Technology for Compart North America, Inc.  Compart is a leading global provider of Multi-Channel Document Management Solutions. Headquartered in Germany, with subsidiaries throughout Europe and America, Compart has been a member of the PDF Association since 2006.

Presenter: Dan Morris, Foxit

Dan is a technology solutions expert, a designer, and a musician. He has worked in fields ranging from geographic information systems to web development to mobile marketing. Dan has designed solutions on multimillion dollar projects for companies such as Fidelity, Microsoft and P&G.

Presenter: Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe Systems

Leonard is a Principal Scientist and the PDF Architect for Adobe Systems, having been involved with PDF technology for more than 15 years. He represents Adobe on various international standards bodies including the ISO (where he is the Project Editor for PDF/A and PDF/E), W3C and ETSI/ESI (where he authored the PDF Electronic Signature standard, PAdES). Prior to re-joining Adobe in 2006, Leonard worked as the Director of Software Development for Appligent, and the Chief Innovation Officer for Apago, while also running the successful consulting business of PDF Sages. Before becoming involved in PDF, Leonard was the Director of Advanced Technology for Aladdin Systems and was responsible for the development of the StuffIt line of products.

Presenters: Mr. Tom Parks, LMI Senior Fellow and Mr. Dick Tiano, ATI Senior Program Manager

Mr. Parks is a senior fellow at LMI assigned to the Acquisition and Product Support business unit. He has more than 44 years of experience supporting senior leaders of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of the Navy, Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Strategic Defense Initiative Office, and Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, in logistics analysis, system development, technology assessment, and maintenance planning. He is a retired US Navy submarine officer (nuclear power) and a Project Management Professional.

Presenter: Phil Spreier, 3D PDF Consortium

Phil is an expert in 3D PDF and is chairman of the US TAG for ISO TC 171/SC 2.  Phil also project leader for ISO 21757 (ECMAScript for PDF 2.0 – Part 1: Core PDF Support) and ISO 21757-2 (ECMAScript for PDF 2.0 – Part 2: Extensions for use in 3D annotations).

Phil is an Adobe Certified Expert for the Acrobat software and is a frequent speaker regarding 3D PDF at industry events. He is also the founder and President of Dimension PDF, a software developer of plug-ins for publishing 3D PDF documents from Autodesk AutoCAD models.

Presenter: Matt Kuznicki, Datalogics and Chairman of the PDF Association

Matt Kuznicki is the CTO of Datalogics and the Chairman of the PDF Association. He serves as a recognized expert in document applications, eBooks, electronic documents, and the PDF file format, and is active in the PDF standards and technical communities.

Presenter: Dietrich von Seggern, callas software

Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing engineer, and in 1991 started his professional career as head of desktop prepress production in a reproduction house. He became involved in research projects for digital transmission of print files, and moved to the German Newspaper Marketing Organisation (ZMG). There Dietrich was responsible for a project to enable the digital transmission of newspaper ads. In 2002 he joined callas software as Director of Product Management, and subsequently introduced callas’ PDF/A related products for the archiving industry.

Presenter: Melissa Hire, Library of Congress

Melissa Hire is a Digital Projects Coordinator in the Digital Collections and Services unit at the Library of Congress where she works on projects to improve the Library’s acquisition, management, and access to digital objects. She facilitates a digitization planning group and designed a system to support the digitization workflow. Prior to joining the Library of Congress, Melissa was a Software Development Project Manager for Booz Allen Hamilton on multiple defense and intelligence agency contracts. Before her work on government projects, she worked as a Business Analyst for Infor, designing product enhancements to their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) products for the process manufacturing industry. Melissa received her undergraduate degree in Business and Supply Chain Management from Penn State University and her MLIS from the Catholic University of America.

Presenter: Damian Sian, Consultant for axaio

Damian Sian is the Senior Web Accessibility advisor of Princeton University’s User Experience Office. He holds his MS in Graphic Communications Technology Management and carries the CPACC, WAS, and CPWA certifications from the IAAP. Damian has worked in the graphic communications industry in both print and Digital media for a variety of regulated industries such as health care, finance, and education. He has spoken about PDF accessibility at the AHEAD conference, a11y NYC Meetup, and the United Nations. Damian also provides consultation and training in accessibility through AA Learning, LLC.

Presenter: George Allen, iText

George Allen is the Director of Sales for the Americas with iText.  He is passionate about PDF technology and finding ways to automate daily tasks to save time and money. When he is not out selling the benefits of iText, you can find George spending time with his family.

Presenter: Dennis Quon, Crawford Technologies

Dennis Quon leads the Document Accessibility Services for Crawford Technologies, a company that provides automated software solutions and services for accessible documents. He has over 25 years of experience in the electronic document industry and holds an electronic document professional certification. Quote: “I look forward to PDF Day as a great opportunity to learn more about the format and interact with other document management professionals.”