Sure, we build cutting-edge software… but that’s only half the story.
We know that Typefi will revolutionise your publishing workflows! However, we also know that change can be challenging, and we don’t expect you and your team to go it alone.
Typefi’s Professional Services team provides as much support as you need, from developing and implementing your initial solution through to building advanced customisations and conducting expert-level training. Here are just some of the services we offer:
- Training in all aspects of Typefi
- 24×7 technical support
- Workflow consultation and advice to maximise your technical and publishing capacity
- InDesign template development to ensure your Typefi templates are fully optimised and easy to work with
- InDesign Scripting (JavaScript) to manipulate content in its final stages of layout
- Training in InDesign Scripting (JavaScript) to empower your team to be more self sufficient
- Basic and advanced EPUB training to get your team up to speed with the latest developments in digital publishing
- Development of customised exports to DAISY, HTML, other accessible formats, and emerging digital formats
- XML transformation to automatically import any external XML document or data into Typefi—no coding required
- Training in all aspects of Typefi
- 24×7 technical support
- Workflow consultation and advice to maximise your technical and publishing capacity
- InDesign template development to ensure your Typefi templates are fully optimised and easy to work with
- InDesign Scripting (JavaScript) to manipulate content in its final stages of layout
- Training in InDesign Scripting (JavaScript) to empower your team to be more self sufficient
- Basic and advanced EPUB training to get your team up to speed with the latest developments in digital publishing
- Development of customised exports to DAISY, HTML, other accessible formats, and emerging digital formats
- XML transformation to automatically import any external XML document or data into Typefi—no coding required
Typefi’s Professional Services team members are located around the world to provide you with a quick response and on-tap expertise. No matter where you are or what sort of publishing you do, we’ll help you conquer multi-format content production faster.
Meet the Professional Services team
Jason Mitchell
Director of Professional Services | UK
Jason leads Typefi’s global Professional Services team and has over 15 years of experience in managing publishing operations and digital products for both small and large publishing houses.
He has successfully led teams to redefine the publishing process to include digital products and improve profitability in the travel and medical publishing sectors.
Anupama Wimalasooryia
XSLT Engineer | Sri Lanka
Anupama is a software engineer in Typefi’s Professional Services XSLT Team in Sri Lanka. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology and Management from the University of Moratuwa.
Anupama feels lucky to be starting her career at Typefi, and loves to work with customers on Typefi-ing their publishing processes.
Damian Gibbs
Solutions Consultant | South Africa
Damian started out as an apprentice typesetter over 20 years ago at a leading South African educational publisher, and from the start was curious about opportunities that digital technologies bring to publishing. He transitioned to general market publishing and eventually became a service provider to local and offshore publishers covering a diverse range of publishing markets, all requiring varying workflows and output requirements.
Damian has extensive experience working with publishers to use evolving technologies and innovative digital publishing products to improve workflows, and to transition from pure print to digital outputs such as web, e-books, and CMS publishing.
David Popham
Solutions Consultant | US
David produced his first publication 25 years ago using PageMaker as part of a job in college athletics, and has been a publishing enthusiast ever since. Most recently, he was a graphic designer for a research think tank and has worked as a production artist in the educational publishing sector.
One of David’s favourite things to do is help others automate their publishing workflows so they can focus on other aspects of their work. He has a degree in Agribusiness, has completed coursework in Public Relations from Western Kentucky University, and is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign.
Dilum Samarajeewa
Support Consultant | Sri Lanka
Dilum is a dedicated and highly energetic IT professional with over six years of experience in technical support. As a Support Consultant at Typefi, he provides technical support for clients in the US, Europe, and Australia.
Dilum holds an Information Technology degree from Middlesex University in the UK, and takes pride in providing creative direction and out of the box thinking. Dilum enjoys complex, multifaceted assignments where pulling together a collaborative pool of skills is essential.
Dumesh Gajamange
Support Specialist | Sri Lanka
Dumesh is an innovative and energetic customer service professional with more than three years’ experience in multiple IT business domains. He has a solid understanding of software development and support, holding a Bachelor of Software Engineering (Hons) from the University of Westminster UK and a Diploma from the Institute of Java Software Engineering.
In his spare time, Dumesh enjoys researching the latest technology trends and travelling.
Eranjith Godakanda
Support Specialist | Sri Lanka
Eranjith is a highly talented and results-driven Support Specialist with almost three years of experience in the IT industry. He is quick to adopt new technologies, and specialises in applying his technical expertise to developing insightful solutions that improve business productivity and efficiency.
Eranjith holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in the field of Computer Science from University College Dublin, and has experience with Object Oriented Concepts, Oracle DB, and open source development technologies. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, photography, swimming and music.
Eric Damitz
Senior Solutions Consultant | US
As a Senior Solutions Consultant, Eric works with customers to determine the best way to use Typefi for their particular needs, and then implements their solution. He started in publishing over 20 years ago as a TeX typesetter at a small development house, where he learned such valuable skills as opaquing film, making Dylux proofs, and pasting up forms with hot wax. He also learned desktop publishing, which was somewhat more useful. He moved to a large educational publishing company and spent 17 years as a production manager working with his colleagues to re-invent how publishing works—several times.
Eric’s particular skillset focuses on publishing automation, workflow improvement, and single-source publishing for both digital and print. He has a degree in Rhetoric (writing, not arguing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gabriel Powell
Senior Solutions Consultant | Netherlands
Gabriel has been teaching InDesign since 2003 and is the author of Instant InDesign, Creating eBooks with Adobe InDesign CS4 & CS5, and Learn Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Video.
As a Senior Solutions Consultant for Typefi Systems and and CTT+ Certified Trainer, Gabriel teaches InDesign, Typefi, and other applications to creative professionals around the globe. He specialises in automated XML publishing, template building, e-book publishing, and accessible publishing.
Guy van der Kolk
Senior Solutions Consultant | Netherlands
Guy first got hooked on publishing while attending an international school in Ivory Coast, where he used Pagemaker, Photoshop and an Apple Quicktake 100 camera to help create the yearbook. After many hours of hard work, while holding the final printed product, he knew this was an industry he wanted to be a part of.
Having spent the first 17 years of his life in West Africa, Guy is fluent in three languages and has a multicultural background that has served him well in his career. As an IT consultant and trainer for an Apple Premium reseller and now as a Senior Solutions Consultant for Typefi, he has spent the last 15 years training thousands of people to get the most out of their software.
Hasitha Ediriweera
XSLT Engineer | Sri Lanka
Hasitha is a software engineer in Typefi’s Professional Services XSLT Team. He is always eager to explore new things and is unconditionally passionate about programming.
Hasitha holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Colombo. He relaxes with blogging, travelling, photography, and playing cricket.
Jamie Brinkman
Solutions Consultant | US
Jamie joined Typefi as a Solutions Consultant in 2014, bringing 10 years of experience as a Senior Content Editor with a multinational mass media and information firm. She is highly skilled in layout and design, and has extensive experience in copy editing utilising AP, Chicago, and company-specific style guidelines.
As a Typefi Solutions Consultant, Jamie works closely with customers to develop and implement automated publishing solutions, as well as providing ongoing training and support.
Kevin Bird
Solutions Consultant | UK
Kevin began working with type in 1984 and joins Typefi with a wide range of experience in typesetting and data manipulation (learning PageMaker on a Mac IIci with a 9 inch mono monitor being a particularly fond memory).
More recently, Kevin has specialised in offering customers automated and interactive solutions. Utilising his knowledge in XML and XSLT, he has provided bespoke templates and end-to-end workflows to some of the UK’s leading tour operators, book publishers and the financial reporting sector.
Outside of work, Kevin is actively involved in table tennis and sampling real ale.
Marie Gollentz
Solutions Consultant | France
Based in Paris, Marie is a Solutions Consultant focusing on the European market. Prior to joining Typefi, she held a number of positions in the publishing industry in London, including at the publisher of Research Fortnight and the London School of Business and Finance.
Marie holds a Masters degree in European Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Bachelors degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Strasbourg. She is trilingual in English, French and Spanish.
Peter Kahrel
JavaScript Engineer | UK
Peter was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He trained as a linguist at the University of Amsterdam and has an MA and a PhD, specialising in syntax, semantics, and typology. He has lived in the UK since 1994, working as a typesetter, editor, copy-editor, and indexer (and sometimes as a designer too) for publishers in the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany, preparing for the press both books and journals. He combined this with teaching at the Linguistics Department at Lancaster University.
Peter has been programming InDesign with JavaScript since 2003, mainly to cut out the tedium that faces every typesetter and indexer but in equal measure because it’s good fun. Peter has worked as a script developer at Typefi since 2010, and is highly regarded in the global InDesign scripting community.
Prasad Wickramasinghe
Support Specialist | Sri Lanka
Prasad has over six years’ experience in customer service, product consultancy, enterprise performance management, planning, and risk management, and has worked with clients across UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and parts of Asia.
Prasad is BCS-qualified, with knowledge and experience in machine learning, UI, software engineering, and web data. He is an energetic individual who is willing to learn new domains and to enhance his skills.
Sandun Jayathilake
XSLT Engineer | Sri Lanka
Sandun is an XSLT Engineer and currently leads Typefi’s XSLT team. He is an Information Technology graduate from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and has experience in J2EE and Android. He enjoys learning, mentoring and sharing XSLT knowledge that he has gathered through his experience in journal publishing.
Sandun is a self-directed and committed engineer who accepts every task as a challenge and aims to complete it smoothly. During his spare time, he plays badminton and cricket.
Udara Kaushalya
Support Specialist | Sri Lanka
Udara has over three years’ experience in multiple business domains, including technical support, business analysis and client support across the automobile and e-commerce industries. He also has experience in HR and payroll applications.
Udara holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in the field of Information Technology from University College Dublin. In his spare time he enjoys researching the latest technology trends, and reading.
