Mr. Rugh, who has over 35 years of information systems development experience, has been Vice President of Operations for Retrieval Systems Corporation since 1988. Since 1972, he as worked primarily with developing text processing applications, beginning a the technical manager for development of one of the early full-text legal retrieval systems (JURIS) for the United States Department of Justice. At Retrieval Systems, Mr. Rugh concentrates on text transformation, repository, workflow, and delivery systems, primarily involving SGML or XML.

Retrieval Systems, located in Vienna, VA, is a technical resource to the publishing industry, providing extensive knowledge of markup languages (both SGML and XML) and up-to-date technologies. Focusing on providing content-centric systems engineering services to legal and accounting publishers, law firms and related organizations, RSC is known as a pioneer in state-of-the-art systems and software solutions. The company's specialists are experienced in every aspect of developing, maintaining and enhancing multi-media and full-text content management systems. Services include: Development of content management and delivery systems utilizing a variety of technologies; data conversion to SGML, XML, and other processing languages; creation of full-text storage and retrieval systems, and software, using both off-the-shelf and custom components. RSC provides ongoing consultation for all aspects of electronic publishing data management, plus training and support for all systems and software RSC develops.

Prior to joining Retrieval System, Mr. Rugh worked for the United States Department of Justice for 16 years, and spent several years working for IBM and as an officer in the United States Air Force.