Wilt Enterprises, Inc.

Consulting & Development Services Offered: Assisting publishers adapt to, master and achieve dominance on the Internet in an integrated publishing tools and electronic commerce environment. A journalist & computer system creator bent on empowering publishers and individuals to have and use universal access to the interactive creation, delivery & receipt of all information, entertainment, products, goods & services, worldwide, for all businesses and individuals. (See related magazinearticle)

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

• For The Chicago Tribune, manage conversion of recruitment (and auction) display ads for the Internet, developed & adapted Mac software and workflow automation tools to convert, track and enhance Acrobat-format display ads into web ads.
• Before its sale to Compaq, for 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 an internal business practices & computer system upgrade-and-use model for Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. and the Philadelphia Daily News to complete print manufacturing automation project, make redundant the then single-points-of-failure in color & b&w production paths, with process control, Intranet and Internet integration.
• 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.
• Evangelized and demonstrated the significance and use of the Internet to executives of Armstrong World Industries in the same forum that they learned about their new corporation-wide SAP system implementation plans.
• Editor/Publisher of THE WILT LETTER: How to Flourish in an All-Digital World, for individuals and companies interested in being successful at answering that question.
• Editor/Publisher of the weekly column, Wilt's Whole-Paragraph Apothegms, WW-PA, first on Knight-Ridder's world-wide electronic PressLink news service, then on the Internet
• News layout project, redux, Agile Enterprise, Inc. For a short time figured I still had patience to work in the exclusively print paradigm. Helped install the system at Microsoft Network as an alpha all-electronic publishing system for MSN News, and learned much about the Redmond Campus Culture during the MSN launch.
• Director, Worldwide Publishing Consortium Online Project, putting this group of newspaper, printing, film, entertainment , design and information professionals on the Internet and elsewhere.
• Founded The Albuquerque Interactive! Foundation and New Mexico Interactive! Inc., in conjunction with the Albuquerque First Cities/MCC task force, which I chaired, to develop an Internet "Digital Daily®" newspaper.
• Building What's4Dinner?®, a home information appliance (a.k.a. software package) to change the pattern of food-handling & nutrition for the American home, and What's4Sale?®, the companion BBS/website for grocers, to change the paradigm of shopping and fulfillment for the American consumer.
• Built Designer's Assistant with own company to front-end Atex and Scitex systems in floor-top 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 and image manipulation products 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 Herzliya, Brussels and Bedford, resulting in savings of thousands of dollars in air freight and breaking the barrier of a one-hour-a-day, four-days-a-week workday overlap 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 & was a key integrator, as a copy editor, of Newsday's Atex computer system, which revolutionized newspaper production; generated the first full-page cold-type output at the paper, which accelerated the job-replacement momentum in the composing room, all adding to Newsday's bottom line. Wrote the first Newsday Atex user manual for copy editors, trained the most computer-phobic editorial curmudgeons, set up procedures, work-flow, remote communications, etc.; was critical in making the Atex system a success at Newsday. And kept at it, through later efforts at Atex, Scitex and Media Solutions, to reach the pagination goals I'd set down seven years earlier.
• Educated, empowered citizens as director of public information for the N.Y.S. Consumer Protection Board. Took on the state agriculture department on item-pricing enforcement. produced the state's first directory of consumer contact points for complaint resolution.
• As an on-camera TV "talent" & editorial writer, proposed & got passed N.Y. City laws on freedom of information & restaurant sanitation; 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, met my first Univac and CDI TeleTerm, set up first computer complaint-handling database at a major TV news operation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

THEME: Create large, complex information systems that work creatively for businesses, enabling them to realize the full potential of the Inter-, Intra- and Extranets in support of their own corporate business purposes.

• Consulting practice: market surveys, systems/work-process integration, 'nets evangelism, 1995 - present

• Agile Enterprises Layout and Microsoft Network Newsroom project, May-October 1995

THEME: Save the Fourth Estate from Extinction in an All Digital World

• The WWPC Online Project, September 1994 - April 1995

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

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

THEME: Wire Albuquerque, Save Time for Families: Automate All Shopping Processes

• New Mexico Interactive! Inc. & AI!, Foundation.: Founder, 1993 - 1995

THEME: Save Time for Families: Automate All Shopping Processes

• Wilt Enterprises: Founder, 1989 - Present

THEME: Save Time for Editors: Pagination, or Automating the Publication Process

• Media Solutions: Founder, 1986 - 1989

• Boston Business Group: Product Development Czar, 1987

• Lightspeed: National Accounts Manager, 1986 - 1987

• Scitex: System Design, Market Management, 1983 - 1986

• Atex: System Design, System Development, Strategic Planning, Marketing , 1980-1983

THEME: Fulfill the Promise of the Fourth Estate: Make the US "Safe" for Citizens/Consumers. Journalism, teaching.

• 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; an editorial leader and trainer in transition from hot metal to cold type. Assigned to write libel manual.
• Other journalism experience:
• CNC, night copy/pagination editor, 2001-2002
• Community Newspaper Corp., contract business writer, weekend copy editor, 2001
• Quincy Patriot-Ledger, part-time copy editor, 1996-97
• New York State Consumer Protection Board: Director of Public Information, 1975-1976
• WNET-TV/NYU Law School Consumer Help Center: Consultant, editor, 1974-1975
• WNBC-TV/Channel 4, New York City: Editorials; News Department, 1971-1974
• NYS Narcotic Addiction Control Commission: Senior public information specialist, summer,1970
• Knickerbocker News (Albany, N.Y.): Action Line editor, copy editor, 1969-1970
• Times-Union (Albany, N.Y.): Night news, religion & Sunday business pages editor, 1968-1968
• Democrat & Chronicle & T-U (Rochester, N.Y.): Editor, regional news desk, 1967-1967
• Wyoming County (N.Y.) News & Photo Service: Owner, 1966-1967
• 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. Ran action line column for Manhattan Tribune.
• 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.

E-mail: billwilt@rcn.com