About

Hi, I am Thomas, an IT specialist helping publishers deliver high-quality applications and content within time and budget. Through optimization of processes and workflows I have reduced production costs, time to market, and improved product quality.

After more than a decade in the publishing industry I have learned that optimal results are driven not only through the understanding of your customers' needs but by a sense of curiosity and the ability to connect with customers.

I have worked as an advisor for the Trap Danmark project and also solved tasks for the Danish Ministry of Culture.

I have a background as a classicist (MA) from the University of Copenhagen.

Profile

• Head of IT at the Society for Danish Language and Literature publishing dictionaries and scholarly text-editions online and in print.
• Developing the publishing platform Tekstnet based on Hugo.
• Maintaining DSL-TEI, a schema for general purpose encoding of scholarly text editions in TEI P5 compliant XML.
• Member 2014-2019 of the advisory board for Danish publishing project Trap Danmark and the Danish wordnet DanNet.
• In my sparetime I sometimes do consultancy work through my small (tiny even!) company Topoi.

Tools and tech

I do not profess mastery, but I am adept with most of the below, and I have an aptitude towards learning what I need.

Cloud

AWS, Digital Ocean

CMS and Static Site Generators

Hugo, Jekyll, Plone, Wordpress

Markup Languages

HTML, CSS, XML (DocBook, TEI), XSLT, Markdown, Asciidoc

Operating Systems

Linux (Ubuntu), MacOS

Programming Languages

Awk, Shell, Python

Query Languages

Regular Expressions, XQuery

Text editors

Sed, Vim, Oxygen

Version Control Systems

Git, Subversion

This site is coded on a Dell XPS-13 with Vim. It’s built with Hugo, an open source static site generator, and hosted on DigitalOcean.

For comments or questions, feel free to ask me on Twitter.