Alex Masycheff

Co-Founder and CEO at DITAToo

Location: Israel
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Alex Masycheff's Overview

Current

Co-Founder at DITAToo
Director of Strategic Partnerships at WritePoint, Ltd.
Senior XML Architect at WritePoint

Past

Information Developer at Oracle
Project Manager at WSCraft Software
Independent Content Management Consultant at In Other Words

Product Manager at Cogitum LC
Documentation Manager at Cosmos

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Alex Masycheff is an entrepreneur and content management professional with over 17 years experience in developing solutions for authoring, organizing, structuring, and managing content. Alex has gained a lot of experience in building software products and launching them to the market.

Currently, Alex is a co-founder and CEO of DITAToo (http://www.ditatoo.com) that develops simple, elegant still powerful solutions for managing DITA. To make your experience with DITA pleasant, we are investing a lot into designing the user interface that lets you accomplish your DITA‐related tasks easily and focus on content rather than struggling with content management challenges.

We also believe that DITA can be beneficial for small content teams so we make our solutions affordable even to really small teams.

Specialties: content management, document management, XML, DITA, single-sourcing, publishing, entrepreneurship, leadership, startups, software development

Co-Founder

DITAToo

July 2011 – Present (2 years) Tel Aviv

DITAToo is a DITA Content Management System (DITA CMS) that automates and facilitates many of the tasks you have to do everyday. Whether you're changing the structure of your DITA content repository and need all the links to be updated automatically, want to track how each DITA topic is reused, wish to produce an output based on DITA conditional attributes, or need to manage translations - DITAToo will do this for you.

To make your experience with DITA pleasant, we are investing a lot into designing the user interface that lets you accomplish your DITA‐related tasks easily and focus on content rather than struggling with content management challenges.

We also believe that DITA can be beneficial for small content teams so we make our solutions affordable even to really small teams. DITAToo is extremely easy-to-use and can be deployed without any external help within an hour or less.

Director of Strategic Partnerships

WritePoint, Ltd.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2010 – Present (3 years 4 months)

Responsible for building and maintaining the international network of strategic partners in various fields, including software development, consultancy, and training. Together with our partners, we deliver an added value to our customers and help companies find creative and effective solutions for all documentation needs.

Senior XML Architect

WritePoint

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

2007 – Present (6 years)

Responsible for developing and implementing content management solutions as well as providing public and corporate training on content management, including DITA training. Solutions we develop and implement help:

- Facilitate the content development process and make it more efficient
- Increase quality of documentation
- Reduce time spent on developing documentation
- Reduce translation costs

Information Developer

Oracle

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry

September 2009 – January 2013 (3 years 5 months)

Project Manager

WSCraft Software

2004 – 2007 (3 years)

Responsible for implementing the Web content management system the company developed.

Independent Content Management Consultant

In Other Words

2005 – 2006 (1 year)

Product Manager

Cogitum LC

2000 – 2002 (2 years)

Responsible for business needs analysis, translating customers' needs into requirements, and launching new products to the market. One of the biggest projects Alex initiated and successfully managed was implementation of a content management and knowledge management solution at the Russian National Parliament.

Documentation Manager

Cosmos

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

1995 – 2000 (5 years)

WSCraft Web CMS
- June 2005 to March 2011
Team Members: Alex Masycheff, Peter Tarasenko, Alex Rudnik, Irena Warshavsky, Alex Livshiz, Alexander Pisarevsky, Dr. Arkady Kotlyar

WSCraft is a development platform that enables you alone to rapidly and flexibly build and maintain powerful dynamic Websites.

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Integrating Single Sourcing into Microsoft Word
- Communicator (UK)
- August 2010
Authors: Alex Masycheff

The article expains how a product called SmartDocs integrates many single sourcing capabilities into MS Word
CMS Integration for FrameMaker
- Communicator (UK)
- February 2009
Authors: Alex Masycheff, Andy Lewis

You want to manage your DITA content in a content management system, but you are tied to FrameMaker. The article explains how.
Managing Derivative DITA Content
- Communicator (UK)
- January 2011
Authors: Alex Masycheff, Andy Lewis

The article describes the product called DITAToo. DITAToo is a DITA automation tool that facilitates many tasks. Originally developed for use in environments where FrameMaker serves as a DITA editor and publisher, you can use it to manage all your DITA-compliant content regardless of your authoring tool.
Bringing the “Back” of a Photo into the Digital World
- Internet Genealogy
- February 2007
Authors: Alex Masycheff

FotoTagger brings the backside of a photo to the digital world. With paper photography, notes could be written on the back, so they were always stored and shared with the picture. When digital photography came along, the back side went as a remnant of the past. The FotoTagger goal is to revive the back side, but with a completely new quality that adds a new value to family photos.
FotoTagger: Preserving The Past Note By Note
- Family Chronicle
- November 2006
Authors: Alex Masycheff

Documenting the lives of our ancestors, as well as our own lives, is the mission of every family historian. Photography, especially digital photography, opens new opportunities for connecting to ancestors and passing genealogical information onto future generations...

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business development, startups, partnership development, entrepreneurship, content management, document management, XML, DITA, information design, single sourcing

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