I started working with LaTeX in the early 1980's after completing a MM degree in Music Composition at New England Conservatory, and working for a year in the VLSI Office at MIT, where I discovered TeX and typeset one of the first books produced using this technology.
Subsequently, I have had wide-ranging experience with LaTeX and LaTeX related software. Besides writing multi-user macro packages used by many book and journal publishing companies, I have written custom macro sets for database applications, for software documentation, and for producing interactive PDF files from LaTeX sources.
I've produced many books using LaTeX for John Wiley and Sons Publishers, and many other publishing companies.
I have also provided LaTeX training in many cities in the US and in the Netherlands and Sweden, including teaching a course in Beginning LaTeX more than 20 times for the support staff at MIT.
I've written articles for the TeX Users Group magazine and have given talks on macro writing at the TUG meetings
in College Station, Texas and NYC, at the Netherlands SGML/NTG meeting, at the European TeX Users Group meeting at Cork, Ireland, and at the TUG conference in Boston.