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CURRICULUM VITAE

Jack Powers
Vice President of Conferences,
Mecklermedia Corp.
Founder,
Graphics Research Laboratory
See also the
Informal Biography

March 1997 to Present | Vice President, Conferences
MECKLERMEDIA CORP.
Internet media company with magazines, web sites and the INTERNET WORLD exhibitions and conferences

1982 to March 1997 | Director
GRAPHICS RESEARCH LABORATORY, INC.
Media technology research and education company

1982 to present | President
INTERACTIVE FEATURES, INC.
Technology consulting and conference firm
1991 to present | Editor and Publisher
ELECTRIC PAGES
World Wide Web and interactive fax journal of publishing evolution
1992 to present | Contributing Editor
PREPRESS ASIA
ASEAN graphic arts magazine
1995 to present | Columnist
MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS
Publishing trade magazine
1993 to 1995 | Columnist
PRE
Publishing trade magazine
1992 to 1994 | Columnist
MAGAZINE WEEK
Publishing trade magazine

1976 to 1982 | Vice president, business development
EXPERTYPE, INC.
Advertising typographer and systems developer

1978 to 1981 | Vice president, U.S. sales & marketing
COMPUTER COMPOSITION INTERNATIONAL
Typesetting systems manufacturer
1980 to 1982 | Vice president, general manager
EXPERTEL, INC.
On-line publishing services firm

1975 to 1976 | Director of Training
VOLT INFORMATION SCIENCES
Yellow Pages directory automation

1973 to 1975 | Founder
PHOTOCOMPOSITORS, INC.
Publications typographer

1972 to 1973 | Production manager
REVIEW PUBLISHING
Newspaper publisher

EDUCATION

ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, New York
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, New York
BA, Social Sciences

PUBLICATIONS & VIDEO PRODUCTIONS

ELECTRONIC TECHNICAL PUBLISHING, (with D. Raker, et al), Printing Industries of America, 1983
ELECTRIC WORDS, National Composition & Prepress Association, 1984
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL IMAGING, Typographers International Association, 1985
PREPRESS 85, Interactive Features, 1985
COMPOSITION ANNUAL, National Composition & Prepress Association, 1986
COMPOSITION ’86 TV and COMPOSITION ’87 TV Daily Coverage sponsored by the National Composition & Prepress Association
LIVE FROM GERMANY: THE DRUPA 90 REPORT sponsored by Agfa Corp.

RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES

American Printer
Color Publishing
Computer Pictures
Desktop Forms Design
Electronic Publishing & Printing
Folio
Form Magazine
Forms Manufacturing
France Graphique
High Volume Printing
Journal of Forms Management
Local Area Network Magazine
Micro Publishing News
Multimedia PC World
Publish!
Publishing & Production Executive
Publishing News
PrintAction Canada
The Typographer
VAR Business

ASSOCIATION AFFILIATIONS

Chairman, New York City Board of Education, Graphic Arts Education Advisory Commission
Past director, National Composition & Prepress Association
Past director, NY Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group for Graphics (NY ACM SIGGRAPH)
Faculty member, Magazine Publishing Association Conferences
Faculty Member, Pratt Institute, Center for Computer Graphics in Design
Technology advisor, National Business Forms Association
Advisor, Japanese Electronic Publishing Association
Advisor, Japanese Printing Federation
Advisor, Typographers International Association
Conference Leader, Singapore Master Printers Association
Man of the Year, Printing Teachers Guild

VISITING LECTURER

Berlin DTP Congress
cross:media Hamburg
Drexel University
European Reprographics Congress
Imagerie Electronique
Interact/Paris
Internet World
Japan Electronic Publishing
Montreaux DM Congress
Norwegian Publishers Assn
Polytechnic University
Pratt Institute
Prepress Asia
Quark International Users Group
Rochester Institute of Technology
School of Visual Arts
Smithsonian Institution

MAJOR CONSULTING CLIENTS

Agfa Corp.
Apple Computer
Associated Press
Central Intelligence Agency
Children’s Television Workshop
Denstu Advertising
Editora Abril, Brazil
Federal Reserve Board
IBM Europe
National Science Foundation
Salomon Brothers
St. Martin’s Press
Time, Inc.
United Stationers
Whittle Communications
John Wiley & Sons
Xerox Corp.

For more information, contact: Jack Powers, director
Graphics Research Laboratory, Inc.
405 Fourth Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215 USA
PHONE +1 718-499-1884 | FAX +1 718-499-1970
EMAIL [email protected]
WEB http://www.electric-pages.com/

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