XML Conference & Exhibition 2005

Hadley, Marc - Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Dr. Marc J. Hadley is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Web Technologies and Standards division of Sun Microsystems. He currently represents Sun on the W3C XML Protocol Working Group where he is co-editor of the SOAP 1.2 specification. Marc is the technical lead for Sun's participation at the Web Services Interoperability Organisation (WS-I) and is co-spec lead of the JAX-RPC 2.0 specification currently under development in the JCP. Marc has presented at numerous conferences including XML 200X, XML World, XML One, JavaOne and the O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java.Prior to joining Sun Microsystems, Marc worked for Chrystal Software as a principle consultant and chief engineer developing content management and Web delivery systems based on XML.Marc has more than ten years experience in the software industry and holds a D.Phil in Physics from the University of York.

Hamby, Steve - Architect, Software AG, US
Steve Hamby is an Architect for Software AG, inc. He has 17 years' experience in the IT industry with the last 6 focused on XML applications. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences and a published author on XML technologies. He holds MBA and BS degrees.

Hammond, Richard - Knowledge manager, USEPA, USA
I recieved a bachelors degree in geology in 1982. Over the next 20 plus years, I worked in several fields, including oil and gas, minerals and have worked for the USEPA for the last 15 years. That time has been devided between field work and computer analysis, particularly geographic information systems. Having struggled with trying to explain technical results to a variety of audiences over many years, I returned to obtain my masters degree in Organizational Management in 2005. Combining science, computer visualization and organizational skills has provided me the opportunity to use the xml family of products to develop a variety of geo-aware tools, including a document management and text search tool, an inventory control system and neural network type programs to visualize stakeholder opinion and conceptual site models.

Harris, Steve - Vice president, Java Platform Group, Oracle Corporation, USA
Mr. Harris has degrees from George Washington University and UC Berkeley. After more than 10 years in scientific and engineering computing and consulting areas, he spent three years working on document management and systems integration. In 1993, he co-founded a software startup providing an object-oriented database product to Smalltalk developers (a precursor to Java). He sold the company to ParcPlace-Digitalk and served as VP of Engineering of that publicly-held company. He joined Oracle in 1997 to manage development of the Java virtual machine for the Oracle8i release. Since then, his role has expanded to include the entire J2EE platform in the Oracle Application Server product. This includes EJB, Servlets, JSPs, JDBC drivers, SQLJ, TopLink, and web services support in both the application server and database.

Harvey, Betty - President, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., United States
As President of Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., Ms. Harvey has participated with many government and commercial enterprises in planning and executing their migration to structured information. Prior to starting at ECC, Inc., Ms. Harvey worked in Scientific and Engineering Computing at David Taylor Model Basic, NSWC. In her capacity with the Navy she participated in the development of US DoD CALS standards including IETMs, SGML and Internet protocols.

Hatter, Clyde - VP, Legislative and Regulatory Solutions, Propylon, Ireland
Clyde began his career as a technical writer, moving to the design and implementation of document authoring applications in the mid-90s. These included SGML-based, single-source multi-output solutions. He has worked on a variety of SGML- and XML-based publication systems in business sectors which include pharmaceutical, retailing and telecoms. More recently Clyde has managed the design and implementation of an XML-based system for the drafting, amendment and translation of primary legislation (bills and acts) in the Irish Parliament and has been heavily involved in Propylon's US engagements.

Hendler, Jim - Professor, University of Maryland, USA
Jim Hendler is a Professor at the University of Maryland and the Director of Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. He has joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and is an affiliate of the Institute for Systems Research. He has authored about 200 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, agent-based computing and high performance processing. Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002, and is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Coordination Group. He is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.

Henry, Ted - Sales/Marketing Engineer, Altova, Inc., USA
Altova's Ted Henry spent the past four years developing XML-based content management solutions for government, life science, and petroleum industries. Possessing a strong interest in Human Factors research and structured authoring, Ted has specialized in marrying XML with innovative Information Architecture and navigation systems development.Ted brings over 11 years industry experience in various development, marketing, and project management roles, and holds a BA in English, a diploma in Software Development, and a MS in Project Management.

Hess, Demian - Technical Information Specialist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, USA
Mr. Hess works on the PubMed Central at the National Library of Medicine.

Hiura, Hideki - COO, Chief Scientist, Justsystem Inc, Japan
Hideki Hiura is chief scientist and COO of Justsystem, Inc. He is a founder and chairperson of OpenI18N.org/Free Standards Group, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. He is also a founding member of W3C I18N WG. Prior to Justsystem Inc., he was an architect at Sun Microsystems, where he was involved with variety of standards and standard organizations, including ISO, W3C, OMG, The Open Group, OSF, Unic International, X Consortium and Unicode.

Holland, Lucian - Client Projects Manager, DecisionSoft Ltd, United Kingdom
Lucian works for DecisionSoft, well known for their cutting-edge XML expertise. In his roles first as technical architect and now client projects manager he has been responsible for the design of a number of XML applications including the industry leading True North XBRL validator. He is a regular contributor to XML and XBRL conferences. Currently he spends most of his time talking to UK government departments about processes to help them develop XML Schemas in an efficient, consistent and robust manner; sometimes they even listen to him...

Holman, Ken - CTO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., Canada
Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, the author of electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries.

Horst, Ed - Vice President of Product Strategy, AmberPoint, USA
Mr. Horst has more than twenty years of experience in planning, marketing and developing distributed systems, management frameworks and development tools. He was the vice president of Marketing at OnKilter, a strategy execution software vendor, and Provato, an electronic contract management solution provider that was acquired by I-Many. Previously, he was a founding member of the marketing team at Forte and held various engineering and product management positions at Ingres. In addition to his work at leading software companies, Mr. Horst served for several years an I.T. Director for Atlas Die, a Midwestern manufacturing firm, where he was an early implementer of several early-stage technologies, including CAD applications, relational databases and wide area networking systems.Mr. Horst has participated in several panel discussions and many more speaking opportunities, both within the United States and abroad, including several joint seminars with Forrester and Gartner analyst firms; user group meetings for IBM, Oracle, Forte and Sun; and industry exhibitions. Most recently, he spoke at XML Web Services One and hosted a live webcast with British Telecommunications on Web services management.

Hu, Michael - Enterprise Architect; Enterprise Integration Manager, Police Information Technology Organization, United Kingdom
Michael is the Enterprise Architect in Police Information Technology Organization (PITO) in the United Kingdom (UK), responsible for the information & technical architecture and implementation of Information System Strategy for the Police Service (ISS4PS) Programme in UK. He has a Ph.D on global information systems from University College London, and has been working in both the public and private sectors on telecommunication, electronic publishing and digital library initiatives, electronic document and information indexing, as well as IS/database management systems.

Hunter, Jason - Lead Applications Engineer, Mark Logic Corporation, United States
Jason Hunter works as a Lead Applications Engineer at Mark Logic. He's author of "Java Servlet Programming", published by O'Reilly. He is also an Apache Member and as Apache's representative to the Java Community Process Executive Committee he established a landmark agreement for open source Java. He's publisher of Servlets.com and XQuery.com, an original contributor to Apache Tomcat, a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API development, and participates on the W3C XQuery Working Group. He co-created the open source JDOM library to enable optimized Java and XML integration.

Huss, Marshall - Associate Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation, United States
Marshall Huss has been an Associate Technical Staff member with the MITRE Corporation since 2004. He joined MITRE after working two years with BAE SYSTEMS and has worked in software prototyping, experimentation and requirements testing for DoD projects over the past three years. While at MITRE, he has worked with applying XML Firewall and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technologies to military information exchange.Marshall is a senior computer engineering and computer science double major at Christopher Newport University and serves as the President of the IEEE chapter established there this year.

Jones, Brian - Lead Program Manager, Office, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Brian Jones is a lead program manager on the Microsoft Office team. He has worked primarily on extensibility in Microsoft Word, focusing on XML file formats, support for customer defined schemas, and programmability through the object model. Most recently Brian has worked on the new XML formats that will be the default for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office ‘12’.

Jones, Christine - Researcher, Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley,
Christine Jones is currently a first year masters student at the School of Information Management Systems (SIMS) at UC Berkeley. She earned her degree in Political Science from UC San Diego, and worked in The Scripps Institute of Oceanography Library while earning her degree. She has worked as a web developer as a contractor and in the corporate world, and currently works at UC Davis, Shields Library in the Systems department as a programmer.Christine's research interests are Document Engineering, Digital Libraries, and Databases. As a programmer at UC Davis, she has been working on Digital Initiatives for the past two years providing support on encoding; creating best encoding practices and documenting them; working with SGML, TEI-Lite, XML, and XSLT to encode and transform collections; and is the administrator of the Digital Initiatives Website.

Jones, Elysa - Engineering Program Manager, Warning Systems, Inc.,
Engineering Program Manager, Ms. Elysa Jones has over 25 years experience in engineering program management, software development and product design and development. She has been with WSI since 1998 and has been instrumental in the successful design of new products and installation of major radio warning systems. She is also on the board of trustees for the Partnership for Public Warning and is the current Chair of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. Through those efforts, Ms. Jones has been monitoring the development of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to insure that the direction of WSI product development is in keeping with the strategy of NIMS.

Kaempfer, Gideon - CTO, SilverKite, Israel
Gideon has more than 14 years of R&D experience in networking, software and hardware.Before founding Silverkite, Gideon was the CTO and co-founder of Charlotte 's Web Networks, a core IP router vendor. Under his technical leadership, Charlotte 's Web Networks transformed from a start-up to a well-known and respected router vendor with over 120 employees. During this period he helped raise $80M in funding. He led the development of custom designed chipsets based on ASIC's and FPGA's for network processing, traffic management and switching at speeds of 10Gbps and 40Gbps per port.Prior to that, Gideon worked for the VLSI department at the IBM Research Center in Haifa where he developed automatic test generators for PowerPC processors.Gideon is an officer (reserve) of the Israeli Defense Forces where he was part of the prestigious "Haman Talpiyot" technological program. He brings years of experience in Telco grade system development, ASIC and FPGA design as well as routing protocols and TCP/IP network technologies.He holds a B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Engineering and a MSc. in Computer Science from the Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology.

Kelly, Kevin - Senior Software Engineer, IBM, United States of America
Kevin E. Kelly is a Senior Softwar Engineer with the IBM Corporation working on Software Standards. Kevin is a member of the W3C XForms Working Group as well as the W3C Compound Document Format Working Group. His focus is on evolving open standards based technologies for faster, more efficient standards adoption through model-driven approaches. Before joining IBM, Kevin spent 8 year at Rational Software working on UML modeling and Java technologies.

Khan, Farrukh - Professor, Ohio State University, USA
Prof. Khan and his team are responsible for the development of OR-*, a suite of healthcare systems based on Services Oriented Architecture (XML Web Services) for the Ohio State University Medical Center. Prof. Khan is an associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University. He also holds joint positions in the department of Computer and Information Sciences in the College of Engineering, and department of Anesthesiology in the College of Medicine. He is currently interested in developing production healthcare systems based on SOAP Web Services enhanced by using emerging WS-* specifications (WS-Routing, WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-Trust etc.). Prof. Khan has lectured extensively on enterprise distributed computing and security in the USA, Europe and Asia. His projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Air Force, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Cray Research., Lucent Technologies, and Microsoft Research.

Krug, Kristopher - President, Bryght, Canada
Kris has been publishing online since 1998 and has spent his professional career working in marketing and creative departments for technology companies. He recently moved back to Vancouver after spending the past several years in San Francisco, California where he helped lead marketing departments for 2 large companies that went on to be acquired. Kris is an online expert, having built and operated dozens of websites. He has the unique ability to balance communication objectives and aesthetic delight. The only time you won't find him plugged into the interweb is when he out roaming with his camera. Kris is an aspiring photographer and has carved out a niche doing event blogging at conferences and special events. Other places to find Kris online are KrisKrug.com, Daily Vancouver 2010, Urban Vancouver and PhotographyHack.com.

La Fontaine, Robin - CEO, DeltaXML Ltd., United Kingdom
Robin La Fontaine is CEO of DeltaXML, a company providing change management for XML including a method for representing changes to XML documents and data in XML. Robin has contributed to various ISO standards and has been project manager of several European research projects including the XML/EDI European Pilot Project. His background is in CAD data exchange and Lisp programming. Robin has a degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and a Masters degree in Computer Science.

Lammel, Ralf - Program Manager, Microsoft, U.S.A., U.S.A.
Since January 2005 I am Program Manager at Microsoft in Redmond in the WebData/XML team. In previous years (1999-2004), I worked on the faculty of the Free University Amsterdam, Computer Science Department, and at the Dutch Centre of Mathematics and Computer Science: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/. I obtained a PhD ("dissertation") in Computer Science from University of Rostock (Germany), in January 1999. In the years 1990-1999, I worked as a freelancer in major business programming projects, where I specialized in the design, the implementation, and the deployment of code manipulation tools.My computer science interests cover programming languages and automated software engineering. My specific fields of expertise include grammarware engineering (http://www.cs.vu.nl/grammarware/), software transformation, generic programming, software design, aspect-oriented programming, and software re-engineering. I have published some 40 papers on these and other subjects. I am a regular member of program committees for ACM and IEEE events, and I organize such events. Check out the upcoming summer school on transformational and generative techniques: http://www.di.uminho.pt/GTTSE2005.At a technical level, I am fascinated by declarative programming, grammar-based methods, executable specification, and automated source-code manipulation. My current pet topic is tool and language support for enabling the evolution of structural knowledge in software (such as grammar or schema knowledge), while advanced techniques for "coupled" software transformation are used to that end. Likewise, I am looking into the intriguing problem of "generic" software transformations; these transformations would be reusable among very different languages.

Lanng, Christian - e-business analyst, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark
Mr. Christian Lanng has worked with e-business and mobile commerce as a consultant to Danish and European businesses since 1999. From 2005 he has worked for the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation with a focus on entry barriers for small and medium sized enterprises to e-business. He is also an active member of the Nordic Government e-business Network where the Scandinavian countries work on cross border e-business issues and standardization.

Laskey, Kenneth - Lead Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Ken Laskey began working on Web-based metadata cataloguing systems through a DARPA research project during the late 1990s and began examining the use of XML while the specification was still in draft form. He continued to investigate the use of the Web as the backbone of a distributed catalog and the particular challenge of converging and coordinating the diverse vocabularies of distributed contributors of information. This led to an interest in service-oriented architecture as a means to access distributed resources and effectively mediate between local vocabularies. The use of semantics technology to facilitate workable solutions is of particular interest because the local vocabularies often express specialized information and the challenge is to both preserve and make effective use of the subtleties and differences. Dr. Laskey is currently on the W3C Advisory Board and a member of the SOA Reference Model TC. He is technical lead for the Information Semantics group at MITRE and a prime contributor to the description and analysis of mediation services for DoD's Net-Centric Core Enterprise Services (NCES).

Lee, David - Senior member of the technical staff, Epocrates Inc., United States
David Lee has over 20 years experience in the software industry responsible for many major projects in small and large companies including Sun Microsystems, IBM, Centura Software (formerly Gupta.), Premenos, Epiphany (formerly RightPoint), WebGain. As senior member of the technical staff of Epocrates, Inc., Mr. Lee is responsible for managing data integration, storage, retrieval, and processing of clinical knowledge databases for the leading clinical information provider. Key career contributions include Real-time AIX OS extensions for optimizing transmission of real-time streaming video (IBM), secure encrypted EDI over internet email (Premenos), porting Centura Team Developer, a complex 4GL development system, from Win32 to Solaris (Gupta, Centura), optimizations of large Enterprise CRM systems (Epiphany), implementation of ecommerce systems for on-demand digital printing and CD replication (Nexstra). Resume at http://www.calldei.com/marketing/resume.htm

Lenkov, Dmitry - Consulting Member of Thechnical Staff, Oracle, USA
Bio coming soon.

Letz, Stefan - Software Developer, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Germany
Stefan Letz received his diploma degree in Computer Science from the University of Leipzig, Germany, in June 2005. He has been with the IBM laboratory in Böblingen, Germany, since 2003, working on database backup/restore solutions. There, he also wrote his diploma thesis entitled "Cell Processor-Based Workstation for XML Offload - System Architecture and Design".

Leventhal, Michael - Senior Director, XML Products, Tarari, Inc., USA
Michael Leventhal is Senior Director, XML Products for Tarari where he has guided the creation of world's first XML-in-silicon accelerators supporting RAX (random access XML) processing methodology. Mr. Leventhal has been involved with XML from its inception, having authored some of the earliest publications on XML including the first book published on its use for the Internet and was also involved in Web Services from its earliest days, having led the team at Commerce One that created DocSOAP, an open-source, high-performance document-centric SOAP framework. He also worked on DocZilla, an XML-centric mozilla-based browser. Mr. Leventhal is active on Tarari's behalf in the W3C. He holds an EECS degree from U.C. Berkeley.

Lubell, Joshua - Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Josh Lubell works at US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he applies markup technology toward solving data exchange problems between manufacturing applications. He is a contributor to various standards efforts and speaks regularly at XML-related conferences. His pre-NIST experience includes artificial intelligence systems design and prototyping as well as software development for the building materials industry. He has an M.S. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park and a B.S. in mathematics from Binghamton University.