About the Team

Michael K. Sweet

CEO
E-mail Michael Sweet
888-333-8421 Ext. 503

Michael’s career includes five years managing the professional services group at Quark, Inc., one of the largest software vendors in the publishing industry. After leaving Quark, Michael founded a privately held consulting company called eMerge Consulting Inc. eMerge was subsequently acquired by DeepBridge Content Solutions where Michael served as Vice President of the Western Region. Michael then joined PCI, where as part of the management team he ran all of the day-to-day operations of the company and acted as the project director. In January 2009, Michael and Hugues La Ricca reestablished eMerge Consulting. In addition to his management background, Michael also has broad technical experience in Digital Asset Management systems integration.

 

Hugues La Ricca

Senior Software Engineer
E-mail Hugues La Ricca
514-941-6637

Hugues has been involved in software development for the publishing industry for 9 years. Before joining eMerge in 2009, he was Vice-President of Technology at PCI where he architected Scriba as well as many custom software solutions. He also worked on the iCPS suite of products. Prior to joining PCI, Hugues worked in support and system administration and studied computer science at Concordia University, Montreal, where he specialized in algorithm development, system software design, discrete mathematics, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence.

 

Michael Twarogowski

Senior Technologist
E-mail Michael Twarogowski
888-333-8421 Ext. 501

Michael has over 20 years experience in editorial workflow and publishing technologies, with strong emphasis on technical support, training, and workflow analysis. Michael was a key member of the QPS technical support team at Quark, Inc., and has furthered his career with notable publishing technology integration firms as an expert in QPS and K4 integrations.

 

John Stroud

Senior Technologist
E-mail John Stroud
888-333-8421 Ext. 502

John has over 20 years experience in editorial workflow and publishing, including over 12 years as the leader of the QPS support and QA teams at both Quark Inc. and Modulo Systems. In addition to his editorial systems experience, John also has expertise in scripting, automation, and XML workflows for publishing, and is an authorized K4 integrator.

 

Annette Denehy

Senior Technologist
E-mail Annette Denehy
888-333-8421 Ext. 506

Annette has over 20 years experience in publishing technology including technical support, management of editorial systems, workflow analysis, content conversion and project management. Annette managed IT Support for Revlon’s Advertising Department and was most recently Manager of Publishing Systems at CMP/United Business Media. Annette’s focus is on "intelligent content creation" that allows for the use, reuse, aggregation and syndication of media content through industry standards such as PRISM.

 

Yubing Deng

Software Engineer
E-mail Yubing Deng
888-333-8421 Ext. 505

Yubing has over 17 years of software development and architecture experience in the publishing and web industries in North America and China. Yubing has been a key member of the Scriba development team and has participated in various custom development projects. Yubing holds degrees in applied mathematics and computer science.