John B. Costa

About John B. Costa

I have worked at the intersection of technology, digital media, and learning for my…

Experience

1. CEO, President

   Repubit Interactive Technologies

   Mar 2014 — Present

   Executive in growing startup that connects people with knowledge at the moment of need using familiar authoring tools. Repubit develops and distributes corporate learning, interactive documentation, and just-in-time performance support to mobile workers and partners. Milestones: • RePubIT Digital platform - Convert PDFs to standard HTML5 ebook, then add languages, multimedia, eLearning, and analytics. Secure e-commerce, subscriptions, and data reporting assist learners, authors and publishers simultaneously. One single-source HTML5 master serves browsers plus and native app readers. • Repubit Learning Record Store \"LRS\" integrates with Watershed, Saltbox, VisCa LRS and others. • Launched Catholic Relief Services SMART Skills courseware series on Repubit Digital - browser, iOS, and Android. Online/Offline eLearning & xAPI learning analytics. Courses are blended training of agriculture and business skills within remote villages in Africa - CRS, USAid, MEAS. Native iOS App launched in Apple App Store Jan 2017. • US Department of Defense Advanced Distributed Learning awards Personalized eBook for Learning (PeBL) multi-year development project. Providing product ownership, instructional design, iOS and xAPI development to prime contractor Eduworks. Deliverables: custom iOS eReader development using Readium, EPUB3, xAPI data reporting to Learning Locker LRS, and custom JS widgets for high security authentication, content transforms based on competency level, inline discussion threads between books, highlight and annotation sharing and others which will be contributed to open-source libraries. https://peblproject.com • Repubit is launching US distributor partnership with developer of automated EPUB3 content conversion and EPUB3 enrichment tool. • Launching viral marketing solution, full integration of Repubit Digital to Social media channels. Lead generation and user interest reporting down to the page and medial level. Gistics, HPE, Realwear

Skills

• B2b
• Software Development
• Mobile Applications
• Mac
• Digital Strategy
• Indesign
• Books
• Start-Ups
• Leadership
• Information Architecture
• Analytics
• Change Management
• E-Commerce
• Digital Asset Management
• Strategic Partnerships
• SEO
• Multimedia
• Pre-Press
• Content Management
• Business-to-Business (B2b)
• Digital Imaging
• Business Development
• E-Learning
• Custom Publishing
• Product Development
• Publishing
• Digital Audio
• Product Management
• Magazines
• Mobile Devices
• Cms
• Website Development
• Digital Video
• Print Management
• Xml
• Content Strategy
• Strategy
• Digital Media
• Ebooks
• Color Management