Tony Santangelo

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984–1988:

MA, Mathematics, August, 1986

Washington University in St. Louis, 1982–1984:

MSc, Systems Science, May, 1984

Princeton University, 1974–1979:

BA, Independent Study (Theatre), Magna cum Laude, June, 1979

Appointed University Scholar, 1975–1979

Senior thesis: translated Sophokles' Philoktetes, directed production

Junior project: translated Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Employment

software development:

Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, 2007 to present

Technical Leader (2012 to present)

Software Developer IV (2007–2012)

Areas of focus:

XML/DITA processing; CMS evaluation; DITA training

Product Owner (for three years) of Cisco's DITA-based CMS and publishing system

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA, 1996–2007 (except July 2000–May 2001):

Information Architect (1996 to present)

Publishing Systems Architect; Acting Manager of Electronic Publishing (1996)

Areas of focus:

SGML training; document processing; process automation; information management

customization (DTD design; FrameMaker EDD implementation; template development)

led the transition from unstructured documentation to SGML

Commerce One, Cupertino, CA, 2000–2001: Information Architect

Areas of focus:

process automation; XML evangelism (within Techpubs)

technical writing:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA, 1991–1996 (except July 2000–May 2001):

Staff Technical Writer (1995)

Senior Technical Writer; Acting Section Manager (1993–1994)

Technical Writer (1991–1993)

Warthman Associates, Palo Alto, CA, 1988–1991: Technical Writer and Managing Editor

teaching:

University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984–1988:

Teaching Assistant (various upper-division math courses)

Instructor (Summer Session; calculus and differential equations)

Washington University in St. Louis, 1983–1984:

Lecturer (numerical analysis; introduction to systems and control theory)

Herbert H. Lehman College, 1981–1982:

Adjunct Lecturer (remedial and Master's-level mathematics courses)

typical development projects:

• extracting information from code to create skeletal DITA documents
• publishing-process automation and tool configuration
• on-demand generation of multiple document suites from a single source repository
• web-based production control and tracking application, with a declarative workflow engine
• web-based collaboration tool for developing a shared glossary
• online information management system and collaboration tool

experienced with:

• XML, XSLT, XQuery
• DITA, DITA OT
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX, JQuery
• Haskell, Java, perl, python
• database design, SQL
• oXygen XML Editor, XMetaL
• FrameMaker and Interleaf (template design, EDD development,
  FDK and ExtendScript coding, Interleaf LISP)
• SGML, OmniMark
• Apache Cocoon, Apache Lucene, eXist XML DB

technical writing experience:

• Processor architecture (Intel, NCube, Fujitsu)
• ASIC design tools (AT&T Bell Labs, Logic Modeling Inc, Synopsys)