Bill Wilt

8 Common Street Ste 3A

Waltham, MA 02451-4426

617.851.1860

E-mail: billwilt@rcn.com

Key Competencies

Twenty-plus years of in-depth experience in the publishing, broadcasting, communication and computer system design & development

* Newsday: Editor, System Designer, 1976 - 1980

o Copy editor; editor, electronic makeup group; news editor, Viewpoints (Op-Ed) Section; manager, editorial pagination project. Wrote, prepared and produced Newsday's editorial composition manual for the Atex system; served as a leader of major editorial upgrade to Atex' Release 3 system; developed techniques for full-page typesetting; an editorial leader and trainer in transition from hot metal to cold type.

* Other journalism experience:

o CNC, night copy/pagination editor, 2001-2002

o Community Newspaper Corp., contract business writer, weekend copy editor, 2001

o Quincy Patriot-Ledger, part-time copy editor, 1996-97

o New York State Consumer Protection Board: Director of Public Information, 1975-1976

o WNET-TV/NYU Law School Consumer Help Center: Consultant, editor, 1974-1975

o WNBC-TV/Channel 4, New York City: Editorials; News Department, 1971-1974

o Knickerbocker News (Albany, N.Y.): Action Line editor, copy editor, 1969-1970

o Times-Union (Albany, N.Y.): Night news, religion & Sunday business pages editor, 1968-1968

o Democrat & Chronicle & T-U (Rochester, N.Y.): Editor, regional news desk, 1967-1967

o Wyoming County (N.Y.) News & Photo Service: Owner, 1966-1967

o Watertown (N.Y.) Times: Fed. Reporter, Canton Bureau Chief, 1963-1964

DEGREES, HONORS, etc.

* M.S., Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, NY. 1971. First Consumer Reports Magazine Fellow. Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Get the press corps out of the White House, please!

* J.D., Albany Law School, Union University, Albany, NY. 1970. Rosch prize, Administrative Law. Lawyer's Co-Op book prize, Administrative Law. NYS Veteran's Scholarship.

* A.B., English Lit./Chem., Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. 1966. NYS Regents Scholarships, Science & English.

* Honorable Discharge, U.S. Draft, Viet Nam Veteran, ordnance, Qui Nhon Province, II Corps. 1964-1966.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

* WNBC-TV Channel 4, NYC: "Talent" & editorial writer; proposed & got passed N.Y. City laws on freedom of information & restaurant sanitation, "box intersections" for Manhattan; at state level, helped get organ donor status on state driver's licenses. Proposed and got implemented consumer complaint "action line" at each NBC-TV O&O. Co-founded the WNBC unit, set up computer database to track complaints. Also installed and supported similar system for consumer help unit at WNET-13.

* At Chicago Tribune, managed conversion of recruitment display ads for the Internet, developed & adapted Mac software and workflow automation tools to convert, track and enhance display ads into web ads..

* Digital Equipment Corp., helped position total corporate offerings (hardware, software, operating systems, services, support, telecommunications networks, consulting arm, independent software vendors and other strategic partners, including the formulation of new business relationships) for publishing marketplace launch.

* Developed a business model and solutions recommendations for IBM to achieve success in the weekly newspaper market, relying similarly on the Internet and the net-centric computing model.

* Built Designer's Assistant with own company to front-end Atex and Scitex systems in publishing installations (newspapers & magazines); obtained development seed money from Newsday. Sold rights for software two years later to Atex for a few million dollars. Software became Capriccio & Renaissance, a version of which was sold until early 1997 as Kodak Create-It.

* Redesigned and extended top-of-the-line Scitex color page design systems as part of a product-line overhaul and extension that enabled a $25 million increase in one-year sales; spear-headed adoption of international e-mail system to transfer documentation, sales & marketing information and software testing info. between HQ in Herzliyya, Brussels and Bedford, MA, resulting in savings of thousands of dollars in air freight and changed 4-hr-per-week overlap to a 24/7 link between US and Middle East.

* Built hardware and software team at Atex to integrate black & white photo handling into this formerly text-only system, which provided the "leading edge" backdrop and catalyst for several years of multi-million-dollar newspaper system installations and upgrades. Made an encyclopedia system sale to gain customer funds for development of my pagination projects at Atex.

* Designed pagination system, integrator, copy editor, of Newsday's Atex computer system. Wrote the Newsday user manual for copy editors.

* Director of public information, N.Y.S. Consumer Protection Board.

Selected Chronology

* The WWPC Online Project, September 1994 - April 1995: Building and managing and editing a presence for the Worldwide Publishing Consortium on the Internet; establishing a presence for WWPC on other commercial online services such as America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and eWorld to support the future of publishing and successful product development for those industries.

* Publisher, Wilt's Whole-Paragraph Apothegms PressLink Column, 1993 - 1995

* Publisher, The Wilt Letter: How to Flourish in an All Digital World, 1993 - 1996

* Media Solutions: Co-Founder, 1986 - 1989. Created Designer's Assistant for newspaper color page-design application to support 24-bit color & text manipulation, driving editorial text system and production color system. Newsday was first customer. Sold app. to Eastman Kodak subsidiary Atex, where it became Renaissance, then Capriccio. Kodak sells it as Create-It.

* Scitex: System Design, Market Management, 1983 - 1986: Senior Market Manager, Magazine publishing and newspapers, Program Manager, Scitex Development Corporation, Responsible for designing and participating in the development of the next generation of word and full-color picture processing systems. Arranged and led US educational/teaching tours for Israel-based engineers. Internal pagination system evangelist. Spear-headed office automation and E-mail link between U.S., Europe, & Israel.

* Atex: System Design, System Development, Strategic Planning, Marketing, 1980-1983: Advisor to president on publishing system integration and strategic development. Continued Operation Mussorgsky, creating full-page word-and-picture output at IFRA, Oct., 1983. Program manager, integrated publishing systems, including newspaper pagination systems development. Designed system for integrating pictures into Atex news layout and text management system and managed development. 1982-1983: Joined strategic planning/program management unit to develop the "almost totally integrated everything system." Director of Editorial Pagination Technology, Atex Systems Inc. Developer, salesman, project manager of encyclopedia publication management and indexing system for EncyclopÊdia Britannica, as well as Swedish, Finnish and Spanish encyclopedia publishers.

* Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism: Adjunct Professor, 1982 - 1983: Created, taught CJS seminar "The Journalist and the New Information Technology."

* Newsday: Editor, System Designer, 1976 - 1980: Copy editor; editor, electronic makeup group; news editor, Viewpoints Section; manager, editorial pagination project. Wrote, prepared and produced Newsday's editorial composition manual for the Atex system; served as a leader of major editorial upgrade to Atex' Release 3 system; developed techniques for full-page typesetting.