Tim Bray

321 - 3495 Cambie Street
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V5Z 4R3
tbray@textuality.com

Employment

1996- Textuality Services
Principal
  • Co-Editor, World Wide Web Consortium XML Specification
  • Editor, The Gilbane Report
  • Chair, GCA conference: The New Publishing Business Case: XML, SGML, and the Intranet
  • Successful consulting practice in Web and Publishing Technology
1991-1996 Open Text Corporation
Waterloo, Ontario and Vancouver, B.C.
Senior Vice President - Technology
1989-1991 Open Text Systems, Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario
Managing Director
  • Took the company from startup through its first 18 months of operation
  • Built a solid customer base in Reference Publishing, Computer vendor, and academic markets
  • Personally designed and implemented an innovative graphical user interface that was central to the company's later success
1989-1990 Waterloo Maple Software
Waterloo, Ontario
Chief Executive Officer (part-time)
  • Saved the company from bankruptcy by instituting financial discipline
  • Took average monthly revenue from under $40,000 to over $200,000
1987-1990 University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Manager, New Oxford English Dictionary Project
  • Led the research into and development of a new class of software tools for handling very large, highly structured text resources
  • Initiated and managed the founding of Open Text
1983-1987 Microtel Pacific Research (a GTE company)
Vancouver, B.C.
System Software Group Leader, Computer Support
Technical Leader, Digital Products Group

Performed requirements analysis, system design, and led the implementation of a T1 network management system. This product is now the basis for several large lines of business

1984 Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, B.C.

Part-time lecturer on Operating Systems

1981-1983 Digital Equipment Corporation
Toronto, Ontario
Software Specialist

Promoted twice within first 18 months. Won a variety of awards for technical excellence.

1976-1979 Freelance Stage Manager
Guelph, Ontario and Waterloo, Ontario

Stage-managed hundreds of concerts, plays, and lectures - mostly rock & roll. Hired security and stagehands, dealt with promoters, artists, electricians, police, and fire department.

Academic

1981 University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario B. Sc. (Hon.); Double major in Mathematics and Computer Science

Publications and Programs

1998 Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, 10 February 1998. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
1997-98 The Gilbane Report
6 issues, covering aspects of document computing.
1996 Measuring the Web
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 28 (1996) pp. 993-1005 (Proc. 5th International World Wide Web Conference, Paris).

This paper won a Gold Medal from the Mayor of Paris honouring it as the best of the conference.

1995 Why I hate the Web Wired Magazine, #3.10 (Oct. 1995) p. 122
1993-1994 Live Music is Better - the Paradox of Live vs. Recorded Music. The Abso!ute Sound - The High-End Journal, Issues #90 (Nov. 1993) and #92 (Jan. 1994).
1992 Shortening the OED: Experience with a Grammar Defined Database (with G. Elizabeth Blake and Frank Wm. Tompa). ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, vol. 10 #3, July 1992, pp. 213-232.
1990 Steps to Success in Building Motif Applications. Proc. Motif 1990, Washington DC
1989 Words and Birds of Wonder - An Essay on Ornithology and Etymology. Toronto Globe and Mail, Feb. 11, 1989.
1989 Lessons of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project. Proc. Winter 1989 Usenix Technical Conference, San Diego, CA.
1989-1996 Bonnie. A program for benchmarking the performance of Unix filesystems. Widely available on the Internet
1997 Lark. An XML processor written in the Java language.

Personal

Born June 21, 1955 in Canada; raised in Beirut, Lebanon. Health excellent. Married, no children.