Proceedings

Biography:

Mr. Carton is Vice President of Content Technologies for Retrieval Systems Corporation. He has over 25 years experience in information systems development with special expertise in the technologies of the publishing and library sectors. He couples strong requirements knowledge with best-of-breed technology development skills to create content-centric solutions. At RSC, he is responsible for design and development of complex repository management systems for publishing clients and for research and development into the company's CMS product "Tractare".

Retrieval Systems Corporation (RSC) is an established software services company with a well-earned reputation for delivering successful content management and publishing deployments on time and under budget. Our customers include professional publishers and other public and private institutions with significant content management and publishing requirements. As a thought leader in content management and delivery systems, RSC was recently recognized by The Gilbane Report for its leadership in blending commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source components to provide high impact low cost content management solutions.

Prior to joining RSC, Mr. Carton worked for Preston-Whitelaw, Ltd., an early adopter of for-profit web publishing technologies, and for Online Computer Systems (A Reed-Elsevier company), where he was Vice President of Electronic Products and responsible for their premier line of CD-ROM products.

Mr. Carton, a native of New England, lives in the Annapolis, MD area with his family. He enjoys sailing, reading, gardening, and travel.