Atypon Community Meeting

With more than 20 years’ experience in project management, software development, and engineering, Mike joined Atypon in 2010 to oversee the company’s Project Management Office. Mike later assumed the role of chief client advocate, working closely with customers to understand their business goals and ensure their technology needs are being met. Previously, Mike was the director of professional services with Macrovision, whose eMeta division was acquired by Atypon in 2008. He has held various software engineering positions at Standard & Poor’s as well as at Lockheed Martin and other military contractors. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from Penn State University.

Over the past 17 years, Hisham has been involved in several high-impact initiatives at Atypon, including writing Crossref, onboarding the company’s largest clients, and establishing the engineering office in Amman, Jordan. His continued focus is making sure Atypon’s clients’ needs are met by its software, DevOps, and QA engineering teams. Prior to joining Atypon, Hisham developed the first guaranteed message delivery system for Slam Dunk Network; previously he was a principal member of the team that built Oracle’s JDeveloper tool. He earned a BS in computer engineering from Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.

Paul Tuten joined Taylor & Francis Group in June 2018 as Chief Product Officer, before becoming Chief Product & Technology Officer in October 2019. Paul brings more than 20 years of technology experience to T&F. After starting his career at leading information technology firms such as IBM and AT&T, where he held both technical and managerial roles, he moved into the healthcare sector, leading product and strategy for ABILITY Network and product development at RxAnte, as well as serving as Senior Advisor on technology and policy for the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. His most recent role prior to joining T&F was as Senior Vice President, Product, for Quantros. Paul holds a PhD and MS in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University, as well as a BS in management and information technology from the University of Maryland, and is an adjunct professor at Logan University.

Patrick joined Atypon in 2015 and is now leading Literatum Product Management.
In addition to his product leadership skills, he has brought to Atypon more than 20 years’ experience in software engineering, building scalable platforms, and managing engineering groups. Patrick began his career in product development at American Management Systems, then moved to Greece to become the CTO of Upstream, a startup connecting mobile users with telecom operators, media, and marketeers.
He has also led engineering and product development at technology companies with projects such as Blackberry’s messenger ad platform and VAS solutions deployed by telecom companies around the world. Patrick has a Bachelor of Arts in computer science and physics from Hamilton College, New York.

Lorenzo Milani is an Associate UX Specialist at SAGE Publishing, based in London, where he has been part of the User Experience Team at SAGE for more than three years. As part of his role, he specializes in accessibility, discovery, and analytics, supporting product managers and the rest of the organization with making products accessible and discoverable while asking the right questions of the usage data SAGE collect and implementing the most effective solutions to gather that data. Lorenzo joined SAGE after graduating with a two-year master’s degree in management; he also holds a bachelor’s degree in international media & communication and French. In his free time, he regularly performs and records as a bass player.

Damita Snow is the senior manager for publishing technologies at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She is the immediate past chair of ASCE’s Staff Diversity and Inclusion Council, a group that she founded and developed within ASCE.
She co-chairs the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the Society for Scholarly Publishing and is an AM&P Network Association Council board member. She also co-chairs the Publications Special Interest Group for the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives and was the co-chair for their 2021 Annual Meeting. Last of all, she is a current member of the Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Content Creation Task Force for the American Society of Association Executives.

Rob has been with Atypon since 2015, working with the MIT Press, the American Meteorological Society, and SAGE Publications. Prior to joining Atypon, Rob was CTO of AutorepairConnect and director of engineering at Findlaw—both web platform companies. He also led the Java 3D team at Sun Microsystems for eight years. Rob holds a BS in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Michael Donaldson is the Open Access Program Manager at Canadian Science Publishing, where he previously held the roles of Managing Editor and Content Development Manager. Michael has over 15 years’ experience in scholarly research, having held research appointments and graduate student positions at the University of Illinois, University of British Columbia, and Carleton University, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor.

Melissa Junior joined the American Society for Microbiology in 2011, where she is Senior Director of Journals responsible for ASM’s portfolio of 16 titles. Prior to joining ASM, she served as Director of Journals at the American Society of Civil Engineers and as Director of Publications at the American Educational Research Association. In her 25+ years in the publishing industry she’s held management, editorial, and production positions at the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Society for Neuroscience, and the American Psychological Association.

Bernd Pulverer is Editor in Chief of EMBO Reports and Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO. A molecular biologist specializing in signal transduction, transcriptional regulation, proteolysis, and cancer, he holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and a PhD from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London; his postdoctoral research was carried out at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and the University of Innsbruck. Previously he was Senior Editor at Nature, Editor in Chief of Nature Cell Biology, and Editor in Chief of the EMBO Journal. Bernd is an advisory board member for bioRxiv, Review Commons, DORA, RORI, STM Image Integrity, ASM, Vienna BioCenter-VIP2, QUEST (Berlin), and CMMC (Cologne).

Jennifer Kemp is Head of Partnerships at Crossref, where she works with members, service providers, and metadata users to improve community participation, metadata, and discoverability. Prior to Crossref, she was most recently Senior Manager of Policy and External Relations, North America, for Springer Nature. Her experience in scholarly publishing began with her work as a Publication Manager at HighWire Press, where she had a variety of nonprofit and commercial publisher clients. Jennifer’s perspective on the industry remains influenced by her years as a librarian, and she is active in a number of community initiatives. She co-chairs Crossref’s Books Interest Group and is on the Next Generation Library Publishing and Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU) Advisory Boards.

Steph Pollock (pronouns: she/her) is the Associate Publisher, Community Initiatives at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she drives strategy and publishing partner engagement for the APA Journals program and serves as the Journals program lead for equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives. With more than ten years of experience in scholarly publishing and a master’s degree in publishing from The George Washington University, Steph is committed to improving equity in both the field of psychology and in the scholarly publishing industry. She is a co-author on the C4DISC Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations, project lead for APA Publishing’s EDI Toolkit for Journal Editors, and a member of the Association for Women in Psychology, and she  has served on the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee since 2018.

Jacob brings to Atypon his experience as strategic technologist for both the financial and government sectors. Before joining Atypon, he co-founded ReConn, maker of the Rubix R&D management software used across federal agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and Tier-1 research universities. Jacob has managed technical projects within several American and European financial institutions. Previously, he consulted for Singapore Airlines, Barclays Capital, and the US National Laboratory system. He has also lectured in Aviation Safety at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a BS and MS in information systems.

Helen works as a Systems Manager on Taylor & Francis’ Global Peer Review team and has 7 years’ experience in publishing systems and peer review. She has a particular interest publishing ethics and in the intersection between DE&I and systems, and has participated in a number of DE&I initiatives at T&F. Currently she is a member of the data-systems substream of the Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing, a cross-publisher initiative that collaborates to improve DE&I in scholarly publishing.

Dawn Melley is Senior Director, Publishing Operations, for IEEE, where she provides strategic leadership and general management oversight for IEEE’s publishing services program, including content acquisition, review, and curation; indexing and digital asset management; editorial processing, including copy editing and content transformation; and delivery of products in various formats, digital as well as print. Dawn and the Publishing Operations management team work with IEEE’s talented volunteers to develop strategic priorities for the organization and turn those priorities into successfully implemented operational initiatives, ensuring operational excellence through effective leadership of a team of publishing professionals. During her 20+ years at IEEE, Dawn has held leadership positions within the Publications group, most recently as Director, Periodicals Editorial Services, where she directed publishing services in support of IEEE’s periodicals. Prior to joining IEEE, she held editorial leadership positions with Reed Elsevier and Thomson Reuters.

Julie Nash is Senior Director, J&J Partnership Development. She has more than 20 years’ experience working in STM publishing, including the last 13 years as Senior Partner at J&J Editorial, and is currently responsible for J&J’s new business growth and development strategy as well as serving as the Managing Editor for Movement Disorders. Her areas of expertise include developing publishing best practices, building society–publisher partnerships, and solving clients’ needs with new strategies and technologies. Julie is the Immediate Past President for the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) and has served on various committees and councils for ISMTE, the Council of Science Editors, and the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She holds a BA in Journalism from Penn State University and an MA in Liberal Studies from Duke University.

As Director of Sales, Veronica manages the sales team’s day-to-day operations. She has more than 15 years’ experience working with publishers in submission, peer review, production, and content hosting technologies, as well as extensive experience in evaluating publisher workflows and creating technical future-focused solutions. Veronica holds a BA in Political Science from Colorado State University. In her spare time, she enjoys outdoor adventures with her twins and anything SciFi.