About

I worked at Wilfrid Laurier University Press, in Waterloo, Ontario, for 31 years until 2015. My main responsibilities included administrating and developing the computing systems at the Press, but I also was involved with editing during my early years at the Press and with typesetting systems throughout my time there. We used Unix as our main system from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, at which time we switched to Linux, one of the first members of AUPresses (then AAUP) to do so. I spent many years on what was effectively the AAUP computer committee, which held regular annual meetings for computer managers. I was a member of the organizing committee for the 2004 AAUP Annual Meeting in Vancouver, for which I organized a number of sessions on technical topics.

In retirement, I continue to do work for Toronto-based Between The Lines, a publishing co-operative that I helped establish in 1977. I continue to be a member of BTL’s editorial committee and I have also been developing their database system, residing on an in-house Linux server, programmed entirely in Python.

As well, I am BTL’s representative on the Canadian Coursereadings project, which is a non-profit organization providing chapter-level metadata and PDFs of Canadian-authored material for university and college classroom use. I have contributed much of the metadata and PDF programming for this project, again in Python.