About
Ernest Suyver is a generally wonderful person
Resume
Accomplishments
None of these would have been possible without a strong team. It has been my privilege to build, lead, and work with teams of dedicated professionals.
- creation of a number of publishing platforms, e.g. Scholarly Editions; previously also brill.com; bibliographies, primary sources, and others
- creation of academic publishing as code, i.e. a GitLab based workflow and publishing system
- creation of an ecosystem of tools: ETL scripts, pipelines, widgets, etc.
- creation of a research data service where data is visualized in research papers and can be queried and processed directly from those papers
- editorial organization and publication of large reference works
- successful funding applications for larger and smaller public/private projects
Skills
- product ownership and project management
- extensive knowledge of Digital Humanities (subject areas, initiatives/projects, methods, standards, best practices, etc.)
- knowledge of programming and web technology
- subject matter expert academic publishing
- subject matter expert Classics, History, and Philosophy
Networks
- digital humanists, world wide
- academics, world wide
- publishers and suppliers, world wide
- IT entrepreneurs, Leiden (NL)
Employment
- 2022-2023, sabbatical, devoted to self-study (Python)
- 2019-2022, product owner digital platforms, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden (NL)
- 2011-2019, project manager digital publishing, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden (NL)
- 2006-2011, project manager major reference works, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden (NL)
- 1996-2007, translator and copy-editor, self employed
Education
- 2006-2022; certified Professional Scrum Product Owner; certified Prince2 foundation and practitioner; courses at Codecademy, W3Schools and Vakopleiding Boekenbranche
- 2006; PhD Religious Studies, University of Groningen (NL)
- 1996; MA Philosophy, University of Leiden (NL)
- 1995; MA History, University of Leiden (NL)
- 1989; VWO, Maerlant Lyceum, The Hague (NL)