Key People at Commandtext
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Rick Russell
President
Rick manages the day-to-day operations of Commandtext, including project scheduling and planning, financial performance, and personnel/ resource management. Rick has twenty years experience in electronic publishing, starting as manager of the CD-ROM/Online Development Group for CCH, Inc. He won the prestigious Oakleigh Thorne Award in 1995 for spearheading the massive data validation effort when CCH migrated its publishing systems from an IBM mainframe environment to a Unix platform. As president of Advanced Data Engineering, Inc., and later as Director of Professional Services for Softquad and Corel, he guided the successful completion of long-term engagements for enterprise clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco. Rick earned his BA degree from UCLA, and JD from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
Christopher White
Consultant/Principal
Chris advises clients how to maximize ROI on their data assets, whether currently structured or not. He was instrumental in the design and implementation of an easy-to-use Word-to-XML system that is still in use today. He has worked on structured content projects for enterprise level clients such as Microsoft, HP, and Cisco. Chris has over fifteen years of experience in systems and application design, working for various companies in a variety of industries. This includes extensive experience with SGML/XML, designing DTDs, writing parsers, content management systems integration, and implementing Java Server Pages and DHTML applications. Chris has a BA degree in English and is fluent in numerous programming languages, database languages, and networks.
