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Lauren Wood, PhD
Work Experience
2005 - Present: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Senior Technical Program Manager, Business Alliances Group, CTO Office
- Interoperability and Technology Partnerships
- Chair, Liberty Alliance Business Marketing Expert Group
2002 - 2005: Textuality Services, Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Independent Consultant
- Consulting on
- product management issues
- internet standards, particularly those related to XML
- publishing
- technical marketing
- Elected Member, W3C Advisory Board (the only unaffiliated member)
- Speaker and Chair at the CSW XML Summer School
2001 - 2005:
Chair, XML Conference Series
- Responsible for the overall direction and content of the conference
- Lead the Planning Committee in choosing and scheduling the talks
- Manage a volunteer group of over 100 reviewers in different areas of expertise
- Write, edit, and approve marketing materials such as press releases and web site content
- Give welcoming and closing addresses and chair all keynote sessions
- Designed a neutral paper submission and review process, including proceedings
The conference grew in stature and importance while I was chairing it, giving people the information they needed about the breadth of XML use within IT infrastructure. It survived the technology downturn to become the largest independent conference in its field.
1998 - 2002: SoftQuad Software Inc. Vancouver, Canada
Director of Product Technology
- SoftQuad's Advisory Committee representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Managed strategic technical relationships with industry leaders, such as Microsoft, IBM and Sun at the W3C
- SoftQuad's chief representative to OASIS and XML.org
- Analyzed industry technology trends, potential competitive threats and partnering opportunities
- High-level technical liaison and support to strategic customers and alliance partners
- Co-designer of SoftQuad's XML products
- Frequent presenter at international technology conferences
1997 - 2000:
Chair of the W3C Document Object Model Working Group
- Managed the engineering process of a major Web technology with direct participation by industry leaders, including Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Oracle
- Spearheaded the resulting specification through W3C to make it an international Web standard
- Evangelized the resulting standard at conferences and trade shows with the result that every major software company in the field implemented the standard
1995 - 1998: SoftQuad Inc. Vancouver, Canada
Technical Product Manager
- Designed and managed the programming effort of SoftQuad's HoTMetaL PRO
- Led the localization of HoTMetaL PRO into French and German
- Designed and managed the implementation of accessibility features in HoTMetaL PRO
- Represented SoftQuad on technical committees of the World Wide Web Consortium, including the original HTML Working Group
- Presented papers and tutorials at several SGML/XML conferences
1992 - 1995: STEP GmbH Rimpar, Germany
Consultant and Project Manager
- Coordinated the conversion of the Aircraft Maintenance Manual to the ATA DTD at Bombardier Regional Aircraft Division, Toronto, Canada
- Constructed a prototype SGML implementation for the Gmelin Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Modeled documents and wrote DTDs and FOSIs for publishers including the Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG, Mannheim, Germany
- Designed and delivered training courses on SGML, editors and FOSIs
- Implemented Motif interfaces in C for the DocMan document management system developed for the Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Delivered several papers at international SGML conferences
1988 - 1990: Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Germany
Post-Doctoral Fellow
- Carried out all the theoretical calculations for an experimental nuclear physics group
- Took part in the experiments
- Wrote and maintained computer programs in FORTRAN for physics calculations
- Presented papers at international conferences and workshops
1982 - 1987: University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
Tutor
- Tutor in theoretical and laboratory work for first to third year students in physics and astronomy
Education
2000-2001: University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada
Certificate in e-Business
- Thorough grounding in Web-based business models,
including
- Technology trends
- Business process
- People and management issues involved
- Class valedictorian
1991 - 1992: Siemens-Nixdorf AG Berlin, Germany
Diploma in Information Management
- Grounding in issues and techniques for
business data processing, including
- Databases
- Information retrieval systems
- Programming methods
- Business operational techniques
1983 - 1988: University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
- Carried out algebraic and computational calculations in theoretical nuclear physics
- Collaboration with a group at the van der Graff Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Presented papers at international conferences in Australia and Yugoslavia
- Wrote and maintained computer programs in FORTRAN and MAPLE
- Planned and carried out complex nuclear physics experiments
1982: University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics
- Graduated H1 (highest available) in experimental nuclear physics
1979 - 1981: University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
Bachelor of Science
- Major in Physics
- Minor in Mathematics
- Senior Prize in Physics
- Entered on a University Junior Scholarship
Publications
Many publications in refereed journals including:
- Lauren Wood - Programming the Web: The W3C DOM Specification, IEEE Internet Computing Vol. 3 Number 1 (1999) 48-54
- Lauren Wood - Programming Marked-Up Documents, Markup Languages: Theory and Practice Vol. 1 Issue 1 (1998) 91-100
- M. Schramm, D. Alber, R. Alfier, H. Kluge, A. Kuhnert, K.H. Maier and L.D. Wood - g-factors of short-lived isomers in 216Ra, Hyperfine Interactions 59 (1990) 165-8
- L.D. Wood and I. Morrison — A bose-fermi map in the SU(3) limit of the IBA, International Journal of Modern Physics A3 (1988) 1475-98
- N.A.F.M. Poppelier, L.D. Wood and P.W.M. Glaudemans - Properties of exotic p-shell nuclei, Physics Letters 157B (1985) 120-2
- L.D. Wood and I. Morrison - g-factor variations in the Interacting Boson Model, Journal of Physics G (Nuclear Physics) 11 (1985) 501-13
- L.D. Wood, H.H. Bolotin, I. Morrison, R.A. Bark, H. Yamada and A.E. Stuchbery - Gyromagnetic Ratios of excited states in 107,109 Ag, Nuclear Physics A427 (1984) 639-49
Languages
Native English speaker; excellent German