Christopher R. Maden

Visiting Research Programmer for Scholarly Publishing and Communication, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL and home-based in Marlborough, MA
2015–

• Design and manage technical architecture and infrastructure for Illinois Open Publishing Network, a new library publishing network providing Open Access digital publishing of scholarly monographs and journals, especially innovative digital-native works
• Work with a team to develop workflows for online publishing of digital humanities and African-American studies works as part of Publishing Without Walls (PWW), a four-year program founded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
• Conduct research, with the PWW team, into scholars’ goals, approaches, successes, and frustrations in scholarly publishing

Programmer and guest lecturer, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL
2013–2015

• Assisted faculty and staff with programming tasks, including:
  • music information and retrieval competition administration and assessment;
  • large-corpus text retrieval system;
  • research analytics;
  • internal Web development
• Guest lecturer on metadata standards and practices for Library Science distance-learning graduate students

Contractor, Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University

Home-based, Urbana, IL
2015

Worked with PHP and XSLT to improve publishing workflows for open-access journal and monograph publishing.

CTO, OffTheGrid Group, Inc.

Home-based, various locations
2011–2014

Managed technology development for start-up seeking to organize the informal economy with OhYouHero.com

XML Consultant

Home-based, various locations
2000–2005; 2011– as Principal, crism consulting
2001–2002 as co-owner, HMM Consulting International, Inc., Fremont, CA

• Analysis, implementation, and training for a division of a top hardware/software company converting its documentation process to XML and XSL from FrameMaker-based process
• Massive online publishing project using Perl and XSLT for a large reference publisher
• Implementation of high-quality print publication from database queries for a financial analysis firm
• Stylesheet, CGI/Perl systems management, and Web publishing development for an aerospace manufacturer
• XML, XML schema, and XSLT training and consulting for various clients
• Other XML, HTML, JavaScript, XSLT, DSSSL, ColdFusion, ActionPoint, analysis, and integration projects for government and private-sector clients

Content Architect, LexisNexis

Home-based in Portsmouth, NH
2009–2010 as Consulting Content Engineer
2010–2011 as Content Architect

• Designed content schemas and conversion instruction for Lexis legal document holdings
• Led data modeling project, building conceptual and logical data models representing customer-facing information across entire business

Data Architect, Metaweb Technologies, Inc.

San Francisco, CA, and home-based in Portsmouth, NH
2005–2009

• Successful startup acquired by Google, July 2010
• Loaded and manipulated massive datasets (e.g., all of Wikipedia and all of MusicBrainz) in Freebase.com data commons
• Defined key aspects of Freebase data model at its inception, facilitating flexible user data modeling and internationalization
• Provided expert support and assistance to Freebase users within and outside of Metaweb
• Gained expertise in Python and Wikipedia data extraction, and familiarity with PostgreSQL

XML Team Lead, Lexica LLC

San Francisco, CA
2000–2001 as XML Team Lead
2000 as Senior XML Analyst

Analyzed, developed, and maintained technology for automation of insurance and other business transactions, using XML, HTML, JavaScript, XSLT, and ColdFusion

Solutions Architect, Yomu

San Francisco, CA
1999–2000

• Part of design and architecture team for Æsop, an XML and OEB browser
• Contracted with publishers to perform document conversions and to review internal processes to facilitate in-house electronic publishing
• Assisted sales team in consulting negotiations

Senior Tools Specialist, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Cambridge, MA
1997–1999

• Developed DSSSL-based print and on-line publication process
• Developed round-trip XML, SGML, FrameMaker, and Microsoft Word conversion process
• Applied knowledge of SGML and XML to help revise on-line publication strategy
• Performed conversions to and from XML, SGML, HTML, troff, FrameMaker, and Microsoft Word

Technical Support Product Expert, Electronic Book Technologies, Inc.

Providence, RI
1994–1996 as Applications Consultant, EBT
1996–1997 as Technical Support Product Expert, Inso Corporation
1997 as SIT Technical Support Representative, Inso Corporation

• Provided expert-level support of SGML publishing tools and a C program interface, including acting as dedicated support for strategic customers such as Sun Microsystems and IBM and coördinating product beta release
• Actively participated in product design process, including specifications for adding XML capability to products