Publishing Made Easy

Overview

We invite you to attend a webinar developed specifically for publishing managers and those involved in publishing processes.

Creating Compliant Publications with Improved Efficiency and Reduced Cost

With tighter budgets, fewer resources and more requirements, publishing staff need to do more with less. This webinar provides an overview of the software that saved the Air Force over 60% cost using the software and reduced the average publishing time from 29 days to 11 days.

• Webinar Overview:
  • The Air Force Need
  • The icTools Solution
  • Q & A


• The Need: Guest speaker Doll Holman will share her experience on the impact of the software for Air Force Publishing. – 10 mins
  • Prior to icTools software, Air Force used Adobe products and outsourced services
  • The publications staff provided editing and compliance reviews according to Air Force publishing policy
  • The staff was very familiar with Microsoft Word but had limited technical programs knowledge


• The Solution: Ictect will provide a demonstration of the Intelligent Content Tools (icTools) software – 30 mins
  • Mr. Mark Ertl, Project Manager for Ictect, will demonstrate will include:
    • Publication Processing Overview
    • Pre-Checks Ensuring Document Quality and Section 508 Compliance
    • Automated XML Tagging
    • Compliance Checks Ensuring Document Compliance
    • Final product in multiple formats (PDF, EPUB, and XML)
    • Integrations – How to Integrate Two Word Documents
  • Mr. Pradeep Jain, Intelligent Content Architect and President of Ictect will show the use of Artificial Intelligence in the publications process.


• Q&A – 15-20 mins Speakers include:
  • Pradeep Jain – Intelligent Content Architect and President of Ictect
  • Doll Holman – Former Chief of Plans, Program, and Information Technology for the Air Force Departmental Publishing Office (AFDPO)
  • Phillip Barratt – Director of Sales and Marketing

Speakers and Facilitators

Mark Ertl

Phillip Barratt

Pradeep Jain

Doll Holman

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Pradeep Jain

Pradeep is Founder and Chief Content Architect for Ictect, Inc. His specialization is in Intelligent Content, Semantic Technologies, High-quality XML, and Content Architectures for large-scale applications. He has extensive experience in implementing Electronic Publishing processes for Department of Defense (AFI 33-360, MILSPEC, AR 25-30, and DA PAM 25-40), Book Publishers (ePUB and DocBook), Technical Documentation (DITA), Journal Publishers (JATS), and Educational Publishers (QTI). Pradeep has assisted several organizations with their complex document processes.

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Phillip Barratt

Phill has a long history in the Publishing technology industry. Whilst working for The Thomson Corporation he was taught to use SGML at the point where loose-leaf publishing was moving to CD-ROM and then via XML and HTML, on to the early internet publishing. He was then involved in launching one of the first XML authoring tools into EMEA (XMetaL) and from there he worked with SoftwareAG, Quark etc. He became a director of DeltaXML in 2015 and went on to work for GPSL as VP Content Solutions.

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Mark Ertl

Mark Ertl has a business education degree and an MA in education with 20+ years as a business educator. He manages Ictect’s Air Force Departmental Publishing Office (AFDPO) and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) projects. In addition to managing projects for AFDPO and DCAA, he writes user guide content, develops and delivers training, and provides ongoing support. Mark enjoys the process of understanding issues and seeing solutions incorporated to provide the customer with an effective tool to do their job well.

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Doll Hollman

Ms. Doll Holman has extensive publishing experience. She has a bachelor’s degree as well as her Masters. She is a retired civil servant with over 25 years of publishing experience. Her publishing career includes base level and Headquarters AF level experience. She has worked as the Chief Publications Manager (base level) and Chief, Plans Program Information Technology for the Air Force Departmental Publishing Office. She researched industry best practices to find technology driven solutions for enhancing publishing capabilities. Her efforts helped push Air Force publishing forward. She was instrumental in bringing publishing in-house and led a team to develop requirements that led to solidifying contractual support for formatting publications using XML technology.