Work Experience

Feb 2009 - Present: Principal, Textuality Services, Inc.

Independent consultant and project manager, with emphasis on healthcare, web applications, and XML. Certified Scrum Master.

• Senior Consultant in healthcare standards for the Lantana Consulting Group. Advise clients on appropriate standards for their needs, including US Federal healthcare requirements. Create, review and test content model designs of proposed CDA-based HL7 standards before publication. Project manager for several projects.
• Course Director for the annual week-long XML Summer School held at the University of Oxford, UK. The Summer School gives delegates intensive XML training in an Oxford tutorial atmosphere. Approve course details and speakers, deal with last-minute issues, and ensure a successful event. Teach classes on security, identity, HTML5, CSS3, ePub.
• Implement and maintain websites for various small business clients. Technologies used include WordPress, Drupal, Jekyll (Ruby), XML/XSLT, Bootstrap.

2005 - 2009: Senior Technical Program Manager, Business Alliances Group, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

• Project and product manager for a distributed team spread across four countries and nine timezones, working on a cloud-computing product incorporating hardware, open-source software, standards-based identity management, and operating system components. Created the project roadmap, met with stakeholders, and led technical discussions on architecture and implementation.
• Designed and implemented the website for Sun's employee OpenID Identity Provider, as well as being data custodian for the project, responsible for usage and data retention policies. Worked with IT and product teams on back-end systems integration, using Sun's Java-based products.
• Chair, Liberty Alliance Business and Marketing Expert Group. Developed standards in identity management and web services.
• Chaired the Sun-internal Liberty Alliance interest group to disseminate knowledge of standards, products, and implementation strategies.

2002 - 2005: Independent Consultant, Textuality Services, Inc., Vancouver, Canada

• Consulted on product management, standards, publishing, technical marketing, and procurement for customers including Reach (Government of Ireland), Thomson Corporation, and Justsystems.
• Elected Member, W3C Advisory Board and chair of an OASIS Technical Committee.
• Speaker and Chair at the XML Summer School, developing courses, recruiting speakers, and teaching classes.

2001 - 2005: Chair, XML Conference Series

• Responsible for the overall direction and content of the conference, which was the “go-to” conference for anyone using or implementing XML.
• Managed a volunteer group of over 100 reviewers in different areas of expertise as well as chaired the Planning Committee.
• Wrote, edited, and approved marketing materials such as press releases and web site content.
• Designed a paper submission and review process, as well as an XML-based proceedings system.

1998 - 2002: Director of Product Technology, SoftQuad Software Inc. Vancouver, Canada

• SoftQuad's Advisory Committee representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and chief representative to OASIS and XML.org
• Managed strategic technical relationships with industry leaders, strategic customers, resellers, and alliance partners.
• Analyzed industry technology trends, commercial opportunities, and potential competitive threats.
• Co-designer of SoftQuad's award-winning XML products
• Frequent speaker at international technology conferences, speaking on both SoftQuad-specific and technology subjects, as well as giving keynote addresses.

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 IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Sun.
• 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: Technical Product Manager, SoftQuad Inc. Vancouver, Canada

• Led the localization of the award-winning HoTMetaL PRO product into French and German.
• Designed and managed the implementation of unique accessibility features in HoTMetaL PRO.
• Represented SoftQuad on technical committees, including the original HTML, CSS, and XML Working Groups in W3C, and groups in OASIS and IETF.
• Presented papers and tutorials at several SGML/XML conferences.

1992 - 1995: Consultant and Project Manager, STEP GmbH Rimpar, Germany

Project manager and developer for several projects in the SGML-based airline manual and publishing industries. I designed data models, wrote schemas, style sheets, and C code, trained end users in the resulting systems, and spoke at international conferences. Managed data conversion projects.

1988 - 1990: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Germany

Carried out all the theoretical calculations for an experimental nuclear physics group, writing and maintaining computer programs in FORTRAN for calculations, and taking part in experiments, as well as presenting results at international conferences and workshops.