XML Conference & Exhibition 2005

Madhwacharyula, Chitra - Researcher, Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley, U.S
Chitra is a second year Masters Student at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore. Chitra is a Researcher at the Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley. For the past four years, she has been actively involved in research on XML based metadata transformations. She is interested in doing research on the techniques to design and develop XML based Knowledge Management Systems that incorporate a Service Oriented Architecture.

Maitra, Amit - Principal Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Amit has a key leadership role in making Enterprise System Engineering (ESE) for the USAF real.

Makita, Toshihiko - Developer, Antenna House, Ina Branch.,
Toshihiko Makita is a programmer and analyst of the Antenna House at Japan. Toshihiko has nearly 6 years of an experience in XSL and XSLT application software. His primary interest is designing and developing XML to XSL-FO conversion and tools for authoring XML documents using Microsoft Word. Toshihiko has currently involved in the designing XML publishing systems that use Microsoft Word as authoring tool and use XSL-FO as formatting.

Maler, Eve - Technology Director, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Eve Maler is a Technology Director at Sun Microsystems, developing interoperability strategies, leading standards engagements, and promoting product interoperability related to identity and distributed computing.Eve has made major leadership, technical, and marketing contributions to several successful standards, including OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL), WS-I Basic Security Profile, DocBook, and XML itself.

Malloy, Mary Ann - Lead Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Dr. Mary Ann Malloy is a Lead Information Systems Engineer for the MITRE Corporation. She presently supports the Interoperability and Site Technologies Department in the Center for Air Force C2 Systems. Dr. Malloy has over 20 years of hands-on experience in information standards and processing, interoperability, legacy system migration, and operational software development for defense applications. Her interest areas include software reliability, system architecture and XML technologies. Dr. Malloy has authored or co-authored over 30 technical papers and she is an adjunct faculty member at Old Dominion University.

Marks, Mano - Researcher, Center for Document Engineering, USA
Mano Marks is first-year master's student in the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to SIMS he worked at a variety of non-profit jobs, managing all aspects of data collection, data retrieval, data analysis, data transfer and data reporting. Most recently, he was the Data Manager at Huckleberry Youth Programs. His research interests are process modeling, electronic document and data exchange, and information policy.

Mathews, Bob - Director of Training, Design Science, Inc., USA
Bob Mathews is the Director of Training for software developer Design Science, Inc. A former career military officer, he has served as an Instructor Pilot in T-38 and KC-135 aircraft, as a Flight Commander, and as Deputy Chief of the Strategic Air Command Instrument Flight Course. Transitioning from the stratosphere to the lower atmosphere, Bob spent the next several years teaching high school mathematics and serving as department chair.With an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and a graduate degree in Management & Human Relations, Bob enjoys teaching and has taught in such diverse environments as the cockpit of a supersonic jet, a high school mathematics classroom, a corporate boardroom, and a Sunday School class. He has led seminars and presented papers at conferences on three continents, and is often an invited speaker at math teacher conferences and software user group meetings. His current interests include using a standards-based approach to technical publishing and designing interactive math applications for web pages and distance learning environments.

Matsumura, Miko - VP of Marketing, Infravio, USA
Miko Matsumura is the former Chief Java Evangelist for Sun Microsystems, where he was a visible spokesperson for Java technologies and the keynote speaker at over 100 conferences. Since leaving Sun, he has been involved with Java and Web services companies, including Infravio and Systinet. Matsumura is an advisor to the Asia Java Fund, a limited partner with Focus Ventures, and an advisor to start up companies including TogetherSoft (acquired by Borland), Dejima (acquired by Sybase) and Kendara (acquired by Excite). He also worked as VP of Product Marketing for Web services vendor Systinet. Prior to working with Sun, Matsumura worked at Hotwired (Wired Digital) and the Well online community. He holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a master's degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.

Megginson, David - Principal, Megginson Technologies Ltd., Canada
David Megginson, principal of Megginson Technologies, has been active within the SGML and, later, XML communities since 1991. He led the original initiative that created SAX, the Simple API for XML, which is now the most widely used streaming API for XML.David's work includes many Open Source software packages, together with the books Structuring XML Documents and Imperfect XML, published by Prentice-Hall. David formerly chaired the XML Information Set Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and served as a member of the W3C's XML Working Group and XML Co-ordination Group.In Spring 2000, David was proud to receive the Java Technology Achievement Award For Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community from Sun Microsystems and JavaPro magazine.

Meijer, Erik - Architect, Microsoft Corporation, United States
Erik Meijer is an architect in the WebData XML group at Microsoft where he works with the C# and Visual Basic teams on language and type-systems for data integration in programming languages. Prior to joining Microsoft he was an associate professor at Utrecht University and adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute. Erik is one of the designers of the Mondrian scripting language, standard functional programming language Haskell98, and Comega.

Melton, Jim - Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, USA
Jim has been the editor for all parts of the SQL standard for SQL-92, SQL:1999, and SQL:2003, and has published five books covering various aspects of the SQL standard. Jim has represented his employer in the ANSI standards community and the United States in the international standards community for nearly two decades. A founding member of the SQLX Group, he is active in developing (as well as editing) a new part of the SQL standard, called SQL/XML, that specifies technology for effectively using SQL and XML together. In addition, Jim is a co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Query Working Group. He is an editor of the two parts of the suite of documents being developed by the Query WG: Functions & Operators and XQueryX. Jim is working on a new book that deals with querying XML data in various ways.

Meyer, Peter - Managing director, Elkera Pty Limited, Australia
Peter Meyer is Managing director of Elkera Pty Limited, XML content management software developers and consultants located in Sydney, Australia. Peter is a former commercial lawyer who left legal practice 12 years ago with the motivation of developing a holistic knowledge management system for lawyers based on semantic web concepts. This led to a path through SGML and XML content creation and publishing and an ambition to improve the efficiency of complex enterprise document production and publishing processes. Peter has worked with SGML & XML document markup applications for over 10 years. During this time he has experienced first hand the challenges, costs and benefits of implementing XML content management and single source publishing applications. Peter is a regular presenter at XML conferences in Australia. He is an active member of the OASIS LegalXML eContracts Technical Committee.

Millar, Derek - Director, Professional Services, Newbook Production Inc., Canada
Derek is Director of Professional Services at Newbook Production Inc., an information management and consulting company that develops Technical Publishing Solutions, Electronic Regulatory Solutions and Legal Support Solutions for customers in the public and private sector.At Newbook, Derek is responsible for co-ordinating the work of the Professional Services Group and is ultimately responsible for the successful completion of all projects. He also participates in key projects as a senior architect or business analyst.Derek has over ten years of experience providing quality solutions to customers with sophisticated information management and publishing requirements. Industries he has worked with include aerospace, commercial and legal publishing, energy, pharmaceutical and pesticides. He has extensive experience in business analysis, gathering and documenting system requirements and preparing technical specifications. He has participated in all aspects of software development projects including project management, analysis and design, implementation, documentation, testing and training.Derek has extensive knowledge of XML and SGML, Topic Maps, document analysis and DTD/schema design, as well as a solid understanding of issues relating to the design and implementation of XML- and SGML-based systems. His current areas of interest include the application of Topic Maps to negotiation and decision support systems and in education, and the use of DSDL standards to address the business requirements related to validating electronic regulatory submissions.Derek is currently the Chair of the Canadian Advisory Committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC34, the ISO subcommittee responsible for SGML and related standards.

Milowski, Alex - Consultant, Smallx Consulting, LLC, USA
Alex Milowski has been involved in the development of XML and SGML technologies since 1990 - starting with the development of SGML systems for producing EDGAR filings for the SEC. He was involved with the development of XML from the very start and participated on the W3C's committees for XSL and XML Schemas as well as many others. He's the author the of W3C Note on XML Messaging and co-author of W3C Note on SOX (Schema for Object-oriented XML). In 1995 he founded a company called Copernican Solutions--which developed SGML and XML technologies for software systems--and was later acquired, via Veo Systems, by Commerce One. Most recently, he was CTO for Markup Technology, a developer of XML pipelining technology. Currently, he is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Document Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and consults on applications of XML.

Mott, Anthony - Joseph Smith Papers Project, Brigham Young University / LDS Church, USA
Anthony ("AJ") Mott was one of the key developers of the DTD and application solution for the Joseph Smith Papers Project.

Nash, Andrew - Chief Technology Officer, Reactivity, Inc., USA
Andrew Nash is CTO of Reactivity. Andrew was formerly the Director of Technologies at RSA Security in the Office of the CTO and led RSA’s efforts within the Liberty Alliance on the Strong Authentication Expert Group creating a model for industry wide open strong authentication systems. He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services security markets and the co-author of numerous Web Services specifications including Web Services Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy. Andrew is an author of an RSA Press book on Public Key Infrastructure, a member of the OASIS Web Services Security TC and was chairman of the PKI Forum Technical Working Group. Andrew has been a key technology leader at both RSA Security and Digital Equipment Corporation. Andrew graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia and holds a post graduate degree in Software Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Nichols, Thomas - CTO, DeltaXML, United Kingdom
Thomas Nichols has been developing commercial software since he caught the OO bug in 1986, and saw the advent of XML in 1998 as his escape from EDI. His interest throughout his career has been in practical implementation of rocket-science technology to solve real-world problems, he is now greatly enjoying putting his commercial experience into practice steering the technical implementation of DeltaXML, which he sees as a revolutionary technology. Thomas is a skilled Java and C++ programmer, working with cross-platform technologies and happiest in a "heterogeneous environment". XML is one of his very favorite beasts.

Nielsen, Brian - Enterprise Architect, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark
Working as a Consultant on developing a common danish data definition/model for the public sector, documented in W3C XML Schema, giving both technical advice as well as facilitating the development in various domains. Background in Mathematics/Physics, later focused on computer sciencs. Has worked with meteorological data for many years.

Niemann, Brand - Computer Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA
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Nutt, Kent - Director, Marketing Programs, Conformative Systems, U.S.
Kent NuttDirector, Marketing ProgramsKent has over 20 years of experience in technology marketing with a focus in product marketing, marketing communications, and marketing research. Prior to joining Conformative Systems, Kent was the Director of Product Marketing at Chicory Systems and previously Worldwide Channel Marketing Manager at Tivoli Systems/IBM Corporation. Earlier in his career, Kent held marketing and marketing research positions at DTM Corporation, Prospect Software, Aspect Telecommunications, Dataquest, and Data Point Corporation.Kent holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at San Antonio and has performed Graduate work in Gerontology - Trinity University

O'Neill, Mark - CTO, Vordel, Ireland
As Chief Technical Officer at Vordel, Mark oversees the development of Vordel's technical strategy and product development in the areas of XML and security. Mark is a member of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee and an advisor to the XML.org industry newsletter. He has developed security solutions for clients including Sony Europe, Intel, Royal & SunAlliance, AXA Group, the Irish Government, and Critical Path. He regularly presents at industry seminars on the security issues effecting Web Services and has been published in several leading industry publications. Mark is also the author of the book, "Web Services Security", published by Osborne-McGrawHill.

Orrin, Steve - CTO, Sarvega, Inc., U.S.
Steve Orrin is CTO for Sarvega, Inc. and is responsible for the product strategy and direction. Steve was formerly Vice President of Security Solutions for Watchfire, Inc. and was responsible for the product strategy and direction of Watchfire's web application security and privacy software product lines. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software, and came to Watchfire through an acquisition of Sanctum. Prior to Sanctum, Steve was CTO and co-founder of LockStar Inc. LockStar provided enterprises with the means to secure and XML/WebService enable legacy and enterprise applications for e-business. Steve joined LockStar from SynData Technologies, Inc. where he was CTO and chief architect of its desktop email and file security product and also managed the technology and software development team. Steve has spoken several times at RSA, ISACA conferences, N+I, TEPR, Vanguard and SANS conferences. Most recently he presented at Best's Review E-Fusion, and NGN. Steve was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's of 2004 and has developed several patent-pending technologies covering user authentication, secure data access and steganography and has one issued patent in steganography. Steve is a member of the Network and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA), the Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), SEI (Software Engineering Institute), and is a co-Founder of WASC (Web Application Security Consortium). He participates in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

Paoli, Jean - XML Architect, Microsoft Corporation, United States
Jean Paoli is XML architect at Microsoft, and one of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He has long been a strong and passionate advocate of XML and open standards. Jean jump-started the XML activity in Microsoft. He created and managed the team that delivered msxml, the software that XML-enabled IE and Windows. He works now in the Microsoft Office team. Paoli has been a significant player in the worldwide XML community since 1985, when the technology was then known as SGML. Until 1996, when he joined Microsoft, Jean was based in Paris, where he worked in collaboration with European research institutes, including INRIA in France. He designed for important corporations a lot of systems where SGML, in its approach of structuring and storing information, ensured the long life and easy exchangeability of the data across systems. His specialty has been building end-user markup editing tools.

Parikh, Ash - Director ofDevelopment and Technology, Raining Data Corporation, USA
Ash Parikh is the director of technology and development of the enterprise application business at Raining Data Corporation. He is a named expert in the field of distributed computing and has presented and authored abstracts for Delphi BPX Summit 2004, Delphi Enterprise On-Demand 2004, JavaOne 2004, JavaOne 2003, BEA e-World 2002, and JavaOne 2002. He has over 15 years of IT experience and is an active member on a number of JSRs on the Java Community Process and Technical Committees on OASIS. He is also the president of the Bay Area Chapter of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects. He is the collaborating author of "Oracle9iAS Building J2EE Applications" (Osborne Press, November 2002), and has also authored several technical articles in leading journals such as JavaPro, Web Services Journal, ADT Mag, SoftwareMag, JavaSkyline, etc.

Parikh, Premal - Lead Architect, Raining Data Corporation, USA
Premal Parikh is a lead architect/team lead with the Enterprise Applications Group at Raining Data Corporation. He has more than 10 years of experience in the software industry, which includes design and architecting products, along with prototyping, analysis, project modeling, and development of portals for the B2B marketplace. Parikh is also an active member on a number of OASIS Web services standards technical committees.

Parker, Daniel - Consultant, Economic Technolgy, Inc., Canada
Daniel Parker was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1955. His academic background is in Economics. He entered the field of freelance software development in 1985. Since then he has worked for a wide variety of corporate clients, including start-ups and large financial institutions. He has worked on the design and implementation of financial trading, financial risk, telco provisioning, and enterprise integration software. He currently lives and works as an independent consultant in Toronto.

Parsons, Jon - Director Product Marketing, XyEnterprise, USA
Jon Parsons has over 20 years experience automating the creation, management, and delivery of content in multiple forms. Currently he directs product marketing for the Content@ content management system and XML Professional Publisher at XyEnterprise. Prior to XyEnterprise, he was a writer, editor, tools developer, and publishing consultant for Digital Equipment Corporation. Long an advocate of generic mark-up and an enthusiast for XML, he has served on the Board of Directors of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards and is a frequent speaker at trade shows and industry gatherings.

Pasciuta, Adrian - Technical Director, digitalML Ltd., UK
Adrian is Technical Director of digitalML Ltd., a company specialising in collabotaive XML schema management technologies and services (http://www.digitalml.com). Adrian manages product development and consulting for the company's CortexML product. He has been involved in SGML and XML projects since 1985 having worked in a variety of technical and management positions with leading document- and data-focused companies including eXcelon, Object Design, Interleaf and Digital Equipment Ltd.

Patel, Rima - Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Rima Patel is a Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems and is presently in the Boston area. She loves evangelizing technologies involved in distributed and wireless computing. She reaches the developers around the world and talks technology with them through Sun Technology Days and various other recognized events in the industry.Rima is a Math graduate carrying 6 years of architecting and solutions development experience on Java and MS platform technologies. She used to work as an Architect with a startup, prior to joining Sun. Apart from information technology, she is extremely interested in quantum physics and science fiction.

Pavlik, Greg - Consultant Member of Technical Staff, Oracle, USA
Greg Pavlik has been working on the design and implementation of Java middleware systems for the last 8 years. He is currently Web Services Architect for Oracle Corporation, a role in which he focuses on a combination of technology strategy, product development and standards work. Before joining Oracle, Greg was a Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard Corporation and Chief Architect of the Application Server Division.Greg has been involved in a number of Web services standards, including as a member of the Web Services Remote Portlet (WSRP) Technical Committee, the Web Services Notification Technical Committee (WS-N), the Web Services Resource Framework (WS-RF), and the WS-Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF). He is currently one of the editors of both the WS-Context and WS-Coordination Framework specifications.

Pawloski, David - Product Director, SOA Software, USA
As Product Director for SOA Software, David oversees product development and marketing for the XML VPN, which has quickly earned accolades for its unique approach to providing standards-based security to B2B transactions over the public internet. He is the author of several whitepapers on Web Services and security, and has spoken at industry events.Pawloski has over twenty years experience in a wide variety of verticals, including healthcare, finance, education, manufacturing and entertainment. Previously, He has held technical and marketing positions at Iona, Ariba, Borland, Coca-Cola, MCI, Lanier Worldwide and others. He was the founder of DataLink Systems, a technology consulting company whose clients included Andy Warhol Enterprises.hitepapers: An architects Guide to Web Service Security, and; B2B Transctions using the XML VPN.Accolades include editor's choice from InfoWorld. Mr. Pawloski holds a B.S. degree in Information Science from The University of Pittsburgh.

Pericas-Geertsen, Santiago - Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Dr. Santiago Pericas-Geertsen is a Staff Engineer in the Web Technologies and Standards division of Sun Microsystems. He is a PMC member at the Apache Software Foundation representing Xalan/XSLTC project (and a co-developer of the original XSLTC). He is also one of the developers contributing to the JAX-FAST project at Sun Microsystems. Santiago has presented at numerous academic and industry-oriented conferences including XML 200X, JavaOne, UniForum, POPL (Principles of Programming languages), ESOP (European Symposium on Programming), LICS (Logic in Computer Science). He has also taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Science during his doctorate at Boston University.

Perkins, Eric - Advisory Software Engineer, IBM, USA
Dr. Perkins holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently works for IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center on next-generation Web technologies, focusing on high performance XML parsing, validation, and deserialization, and WebServices infrastructure.

Picciano, Robert - Vice President of Data Management, IBM Corporation, USA
Bob Picciano is Vice President of Database Servers for IBM's Information Management Division. In this unique and broad capacity, Mr. Picciano is the responsible business line executive for IBM's highly successful database portfolio of software products; including the DB2 Family, Informix IDS, Cloudscape, RedBrick, and Informix XPS. Mr. Picciano oversees the product line and technology landscape to ensure that IBM maintains its position of leadership; as well as oversees the associated marketing, sales, services and technical support aspects aligned with database software. Mr. Picciano reports directly to Janet Perna, IBM's Information Management General Manager and Senior Executive. He is also a member of IBM's Senior Leadership Team, providing guidance to the corporation and across IBM.As IBM's Vice President of Database Technology, Mr. Picciano led the worldwide development and maintenance of IBM's award winning DB2 UDB on all Linux, Windows and Unix platforms. DB2 UDB is the foundation of e-business applications and is used by over 3,000,000 customers worldwide to leverage information. Mr. Picciano was the Senior Information Management Executive for IBM Canada and performed his worldwide DB2 duties while on international assignment leading the team from IBM's Toronto Software Development Laboratory in Markham Canada.Mr. Picciano earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1987. He first entered IBM as a programmer in Bethesda, Maryland, developing advanced workstation based SGML editor products.

Piez, Wendell - Consultant, Mulberry Technologies, Inc., United States
A recognized expert in the emerging field of Humanities Computing, Wendell Piez has been working with SGML and XML technologies since 1994. In 1995 he was appointed to the faculty at the internationally-known Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (at Rutgers and Princeton Universities), where he worked on developing applications of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and EAD (Encoded Archival Description) SGML DTDs. Since 1998, Dr. Piez has worked at Mulberry Technologies, designing and building systems both for clients and to support internal processes. He has spoken on the theory of markup languages and their design at the Extreme Markup Languages conferences and published in Markup Languages: Theory and Practice. Other writings include book reviews and shorter pieces, as well as frequent contributions to XSL-List; his solutions to a number of common XSLT problems are cited in the XSL FAQ.

Prescod, Paul - Group Program Manager, Blast Radius Inc., Canada
Paul Prescod is a Group Program Manager in the Products Division of Blast Radius. Paul is an implementor of XML-based systems, co-author of the XML Handbook, author of numerous articles on XML and contributor to open source XML tools.

Rabuchin, Steve - Developer Relations Director, Amazon Web Services, Amazon, USA
Steve Rabuchin is the director of developer relations for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, he is focused on helping the AWS developer community achieve success in building innovative and successful businesses using Amazon.com data and technology. In addition to spearheading the AWS Developer Relations Program, Rabuchin leads outbound marketing, business development, partner strategy and developer support for AWS.Rabuchin's passion is helping customers successfully grow their businesses by marketing and supporting developer communities. He spent the early years of his career in software sales and sales management. Rabuchin then moved on to positions focusing on business development and marketing, helping companies grow revenue through developer-targeted solutions. He built and launched the Ready for Rational Partner Program for Rational Software, and was responsible for double-digit revenue growth for three years straight while serving as director of marketing for the company. Rabuchin founded the software startup Vigor, a builder of developer tools, which was acquired by a NASDAQ 100 company. With more than 30 years of industry experience, he's also held positions at IBM, Intersolv and Easel.Rabuchin earned his bachelor's degree in business management from California State University, Northridge where he graduated Cum Laude.

Raghavachari, Mukund - Research Staff Member, IBM Corporation, USA
Mukund is a Research Staff Member in the T.J. Watson Research Center of IBM Corporation. He received a PhD from Princeton University in Computer Science. He has been leading the XJ project -- a language extension to Java that incorporates XML as a first-class constructs. Several publications in leading conferences and journals. More information is available at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/mrm

Reck, Ronald - Consultant, RRecktek LLC,
Ronald P. Reck was raised and educated in the Detroit Metropolitan area and on occasion, has enough time to miss the friends and culture of the place he still calls home. He is formally trained in theoretical syntax and remains fascinated by language and what it reveals about being human. A passion for linguistics and intensity with computers afford him gainful employment using Perl, XML, and Semantic Web technologies running, of course under *nix. He prides himself on developing scalable, open source architectural strategies for difficult problems. He resides near our nation's capital with his lovely wife Olga and two cats.

Richards, Lisa - Senion Engagement Manager, Propylon USA, United States
With more than 15 years in the industry, Richards provides a strong portfolio of skills in marketing, strategic business planning and development, operations, customer service management, and project management.Richards founded CD/LAW, a legal publishing business that was eventually acquired by Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing, a subsidiary of Thomson International, now West Group. She's been with several of the leading XML vendors over the years, and is now employed by Propylon and leading the Bill Drafting Project for the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

Robie, Jonathan - XML Program Manager, DataDirect Technologies, United States
Jonathan Robie is the XML Program Manager at DataDirect Technologies. He is also a co-inventor of XQuery, the W3C XML Query language, and is now an editor of many of the specifications which define the XQuery language. He is also a co-inventor of XQL, an earlier XML query language which was a predecessor of XPath. Jonathan has been significantly involved in several other W3C Working Groups, acting as an editor for documents produced by the XML Schema and Document Object Model Working Groups, and has also participated in the W3C XML Information Set and XML Stylesheet Language (XSL) Working Groups. He is well known in the XML world, both as an innovator and as a speaker.Prior to joining DataDirect, Jonathan worked as an XML Research Specialist at Software AG, where he helped design architectures for XML servers and represented Software AG on the XML Query and XML Schema Working Groups. He has been on the architecture team for three XML databases or repositories, at Software AG, Texcel Research, and POET Software. He has a total of 13 years experience with advanced database systems and complex database applications, especially object oriented databases, multimedia databases, workgroup database applications, and XML/SGML databases.

Robinson, Gary - Senior Software Engineer,IBM Software Solutions,Silicon Valley Lab, IBM Corporation, USA
Gary Robinson is an Executive Consultant in the Information Management division of IBM's Software Group. He is a member of the team developing native XML support in DB2 and specializes in working with customers and partners using this exciting new technology. Gary has been with IBM for 17 years, both in the UK and the USA, providing technical leadership in Business Intelligence, Information Integration and now XML. Prior to joining IBM, Gary worked in semiconductor manufacturing research in the Netherlands and space research in Oxford UK.

Rollman, Rich - Vice President - Engineering and Product Development, AgileDelta, Inc., USA
Rich Rollman is a founder and Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at AgileDelta, Inc., an independent software vendor that supplies XML and Web Services infrastructure software for use on mobile computing platforms.Prior to joining AgileDelta, Mr. Rollman was founder and CEO of DataConcert, a startup that built E-Business solutions using XML and Web Services to link enterprises with their small and mid-size trading partners. At DataConcert, he was responsible for the design, development, marketing, and sales of DataConcert's E-Business solutions.Mr. Rollman has been working on XML technologies since their inception. He was the Group Program Manager for Microsoft's core XML technologies (MS XML) and SQL Server's XML functionality (SQLXML). He later led product management at Crossgain Corporation where he built XML-centric programming models for web services.Mr. Rollman has 20 years experience building Internet and client-server software on a variety of computing platforms. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.

Rose, Kristoffer - Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Kristoffer Rose got his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Copenhagen in 1996 doing research in tree and graph rewriting systems. After four years in academia, last as an associate professor at Ecole Normale Superieur in Lyon, France, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 2000. At IBM, he is working with XML technology with special focus on how XML and the XML processing languages (XSLT, XQuery, etc.) can be implemented such that they can be used efficiently over large data structures even when those are not in XML.

Ruby, Sam - STSM, IBM Corporation, United States
Sam Ruby is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies group at IBM and is involved in a host of open source initiatives. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation and a developer on the Apache SOAP project. He is also the chairman of the Jakarta project, whose mission is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion. He is a member of the XML PMC and a member of the ECMA TC39 group standardizing the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) for the .NET Framework. He is also a member of the PHP group, a select group of developers who contribute to core PHP. Ruby holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Math from Christopher Newport College.

Sall, Kenneth - XML Data and Systems Analyst, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), United States
Kenneth Sall is an SAIC XML Data and Systems Analyst. He previously served as XML Specialist on the GSA Integrated Acquisition Environment eGov Initiative. Ken created the XML section of Web Developers Virtual Library (http://WDVL.Internet.com). Addison-Wesley published his book, XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide, in June 2002. His personal Web site (http://kensall.com) contains several useful XML resources including his unique Big Picture of the XML Family of Specifications, an imagemap gateway to all major XML technical specifications which also indicates their maturity and depicts interrelationships. Ken has been an active participant in the Federal CIO Council's XML Community of Practice, the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, the FEA Data Reference Model (DRM) Working Group, and in the E-Forms for E-Gov Pilots.

Schneider, John - Chief Technology Officer, AgileDelta, Inc., USA
John Schneider is a founder and Chief Technology Officer at AgileDelta, Inc., an independent software vendor that supplies XML and Web Services infrastructure software for use on mobile computing platforms.Prior to founding AgileDelta, Mr. Schneider led Engineering and Program Management for Crossgain Corporation, a high profile Microsoft spin-off founded to radically simplify building and deploying web services and applications (sold to BEA). He was also Principal Systems Engineer at MITRE where he kick-started and led a variety of international XML initiatives for the United States and NATO. Mr. Schneider founded and is leading ECMA's ECMAScript for XML (E4X) group, which is developing the first mainstream XML programming language and has active participation from Microsoft, BEA, IBM, MacroMedia, RIM and others. He helped develop the XML Query Language and the XML Schema Language. He was a U.S. delegate to NATO on technology initiatives related to XML, messaging, data interoperability and integrated business processes. Mr. Schneider has twenty years experience developing technology with a focus on mobile technologies, data encoding, information management, data interoperability and messaging. He has a Masters degree and Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

Sedlar, Eric - Architect for XML Technology, Oracle Corporation, USA
Eric Sedlar is the Architect for XML technology in the Oracle database, and started the XML DB project in 2000. Previously at Oracle he founded the Internet Filesystem (iFS). Eric has served time representing Oracle on such standards efforts as WebDAV and XML Schema.

Senellart, Jean - Director R&D, SYSTRAN, France
Jean Senellart, an engineer from École polytechnique (Paris, France), has a Master degree in Computer Science, in Computational Linguistics and also earned a PhD in Computational Linguistics. As Director of Research & Development at SYSTRAN for the last eight years, Jean drives new approaches and all linguistic development. He is a member of the OSCAR (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use) steering committee and a member of the International Association for Machine Translation and the Association of Computational Linguists.

Senellart, Pierre - PhD student, SYSTRAN S.A / INRIA Futurs, France
Pierre Senellart has a Master degree in Computer Science, is currently a PhD candidate at INRIA Futurs. Pierre has been a member of SYSTRAN's R&D team for the past two years. His research topics include the World Wide Web, XML Warehousing, Large Interaction Networks, and Natural Language Processing.

Sengupta, Soumitra - Product Unit Manager, Microsoft Corporation, U.S.A.
Soumitra Sengupta is a Product Unit Manager in the SQL Server organization at Microsoft, responsible for the WebData XML team that implements the core XML technologies. Previously he was co-founder and CTO of B-Bop Associates, which produced a native XML interface on top of relational DBMS.

Severson, Eric - Chief Technology Officer, Flatirons Solutions, USA
An internationally recognized XML pioneer and content management industry expert, Mr. Severson has over twenty years of experience in the technology field, ranging from hands-on product development and consulting to senior management roles in engineering and marketing.Mr. Severson worked directly on the design of the JSP solution, and is currently Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of Flatirons Solutions Corporation, a consulting and systems integration firm specializing in content management and XML-based publishing. Prior to joining Flatirons, Mr. Severson was an Executive Consultant for IBM Global Services, where he focused on content management and XML, and was a principal developer of IBM's XML certification test. He also served as Vice President and Chief Strategist for Interleaf, Inc., an XML-based content management company, and was co-founder, CTO and principal developer for Avalanche (a startup SGML/XML software development company). Mr. Severson is a past President of OASIS, and was a member of the advisory boards of the AIIM Document Management Alliance and the Xerox Executive Roundtable for Document Technology. Mr. Severson holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Operations Management from the University of Wisconsin, and completed Ph.D. coursework in Computer Science at the University of Colorado. He also holds an IBM consultant certification, an IBM XML developer certification, a CPA certificate, and a Certificate in Data Processing (CDP).

Silver, Jerry - Director, Product Management, Blast Radius Inc., Canada
Jerry Silver has over 20 years of IT experience, specializing in content management, collaboration, database and application modeling and design, application architectures, XML, and Web technologies. He has been a featured speaker on these topics at numerous industry conferences and a guest lecturer at several Computer Science faculties. Jerry spent 15 years at Oracle in a variety of technical roles, most recently as Principal Product Manager of Oracle Application Server Portal. He also served as Director of Product Strategy with content management vendor NCompass Labs, now part of Microsoft. Currently, Jerry is Director of Product Management at Blast Radius Inc., where he is responsible for collaboration products.

Sirna, Chris - Senior Consultant, AmberPoint Customer Experience Group, USA
Chris works side-by-side with customers and partners to ensure successful deployment of AmberPoint's SOA runtime governance software. He has a wealth of experience at leading enterprise software companies, including TIBCO, Platinum, Mercury, See Beyond and BroadVision. His responsibilities have included solutions architect, solutions consultant, developer, systems administrator, and manager of computer systems. Chris earned his Computer Science degree, with a concentration in CIS, at Frostburg University.

Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. - Technical Staff, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), United States
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium, an international membership organization responsible for developing Web standards. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification and the <title>Guidelines</title> of the Text Encoding Initiative; he also chairs the W3C XML Coordination Group and serves on the W3C XML Schema Working Group and the W3C XSL Working Group. See also http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/.

Stayton, Bob - Principal Consultant, Sagehill Enterprises, USA
Bob Stayton is the principal consultant with SagehillEnterprises, an independent center for DocBook developmentand implementation.He is a member of OASIS, and is Secretary of the DocBookTechnical Committee that develops and maintains the DocBookstandards.He is also a member of the technical team for the DocBookOpen Repository Project on SourceForge that develops theDocBook stylesheets and other tools. He designed anddeveloped the XSL stylesheet support for olinks.Bob is a frequent contributor to the docbook-apps mailinglist, especially on the subject of DocBook XSL.He is the author of "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide".

Storey, Phil - Senior Sales Engineer, Datawatch Corp., USA
Datawatch Senior Sales Engineer Philip Storey began working with SGML and XML applications more than 10 years ago. He was first exposed to these technologies in his capacity as Editorial Systems Manager at Grolier Encyclopedia, Inc. and then with enterprise publishing vendor Arbortext, Empolis, an information logistics company, and several consulting firms. At Datawatch, his primary technical responsibilities span XML generation, ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading), reporting and data mining applications, and he has worked on the front lines with customers in healthcare, financial services, and government. Storey has also worked as a school teacher and a newspaper reporter. He graduated from Florida State University and has a Master's degree from Wesleyan University.

Tanglao, Roland - Chief Blogging Officer, Bryght, Canada
Roland Tanglao graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Systems Design Engineering. Working at Nortel Networks, he ran its first internal corporate blog focusing on developer relations. Roland has been blogging since 1999, and was the first business blogging consultant in Canada.Roland is one of the founders of Bryght and as Bryght's Chief Blogging Officer, he reads hundreds of blogs daily through his RSS reader and participates in many online communities. He is an expert community manager, with UrbanVancouver.com and his personal restaurant review site, VanEats.com, being the two best examples.

Tao, Sandy - NLM Associate Fellow, National Library of Medicine, USA
Ms. Tao is a fellow from National Library of Medicine. She graduated from San Jose State University in 2004 with a MLIS degree. Her current interests are in information systems development, open access issues, thesaurus design, and environmental health. She is currently spending a year at the University of Washington.

Thompson, Henry - Reader, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Henry S. Thompson is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre, and Managing Director of Markup Technology Ltd.He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided between Linguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. While still at Berkeley he was affiliated with the Natural Language Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he participated in the GUS and KRL projects. He research interests have ranged widely, including natural language parsing, speech recognition, machine translation evaluation, modelling human lexical access mechanisms, the fine structure of human-human dialogue, language resource creation and architectures for linguistic annotation. His current research is focussed on articulating and extending the architectures of XML.He was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED, the first free XML instance editor and co-author of the LT XML toolkit and is currently a member of the XSL and XML Schema Working Groups of the W3C. He currently holds a World Wide Web Consortium Fellowship, and is lead editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema W3C Recommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly available implementation, XSV. He has presented many papers and tutorials on SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSL and XML Schemas in both industrial and public settings over the last five years.

Tidd, Bryan - Director of Technology, City of Canton, USA
Bryan Tidd finished his Master's Degree in Physics in 1996, then went directly to work for a software development company for governmental and non-profit accounting. Seeing the lack of leadership and insite at local government level, he accepted the position as the first Director of Technology for the City of Canton in 2000.Knowing that the Internet is the face of most companies and institutions, He began building small web applications in crude html and JavaScript. He then rewrote them in Macromedia's ColdFusion CFML. Know those and other applications are being replaced by Macromedia Flex RIA's. Flex is based on MXML (Macromedia's namespaced derivative of XML and ActionScript 2, an Emacscript scripting language not unlike JavaScript).

Usdin, B. Tommie - President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc., United States
B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing in XML and SGML. Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been a supporter of XML since 1996. She chairs IDEAlliance's Extreme Markup Language conferences and was co-editor of "Markup Languages: Theory & Practice" published by the MIT Press. Ms. Usdin has developed DTDs, Schemas, and XML/SGML application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor documentation; historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have included print books and journals, and both Web-based and media based electronic publications.

Van der Linden, Robbert - Architect DB2 Native XML Datastore, IBM Corporation, USA
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Villard, Lionel - Advisory Research Engineer, IBM, USA
Dr. Lionel Villard is an advisory research engineer at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He received his Ph.D. at the "Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)" in March 2002. Dr. Villard's research interests include multimedia documents, contextual adaptation, authoring tools, document transformations, incremental transformations, and high performance.

Vishik, Claire - Senior Software Architect, Sterling Commerce, USA
Claire Vishik started working on Internet-enabled systems in February of 1994, soon after the release of the NCSA Mosaic. She was a Research Scientist in Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science and Principal Member of Technical Staff at SBC Laboratories working on Knowledge Management, search, and electronic commerce related projects and developing new ideas for Internet-based services in many other areas. Currently at Sterling Commerce, she is focusing on Internet security and B2B technologies. Claire has a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She has many publications and 15 issued and pending patents on various aspects of e-commerce, business, and KM technologies.

Waldt, Dale - Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, United States
Mr. Waldt provides XML and electronic system/product development support through aXtive Minds, Inc. aXtive Minds focuses on XML solutions for publishing, compliance, legislative & regulatory, and related applications. Dale previously served as an Industry Consultant to OASIS. Mr. Waldt was VP Product Technology at RIA, the tax publishing business unit of the Thomson Corporation where, for 11 years, he led teams in SGML and XML system and product development and was an integral member of the senior management team. In the 1980's, Dale participated system development at the IRS in Washington, DC. Dale co-authored The SGML Implementation Guide (Springer 1995) and was founder and publisher of <TAG> The SGML Newsletter for 11 years. Dale has taught, spoken, and written on SGML/XML and related standards and technology worldwide for many years.

Walsh, Norman - XML Standards Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Norman Walsh is an XML Standards Architect in the Java Web Technologies and Standards group at Sun Microsystems, Inc.Norm is an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide, including the XML Core and XSL Working Groups of the World Wide Web Consortium where he is also an elected member of the Technical Architecture Group, the OASIS RELAX NG Committee, the OASIS Entity Resolution Committee for which he is the editor, and the OASIS DocBook Technical Committee, which he chairs.He is the principal author of _DocBook: The Definitive Guide_, published by O'Reilly & Associates.

Wang, Jinyu - Sr. Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, United States
Jinyu Wang is a senior product manager for Oracle XML Product management, in charge of the Oracle XML Developer's Kit, which provides the XML infrastructure components used across Oracle product stacks. As an Oracle Certified Professional with extensive database background, she is a lead developer for projects that successfully provide XML solutions to Oracle customers for their business applications. She frequently speaks at conferences and publishes papers in magazines. She is a co-author of Oracle Database 10g: XML and SQL. While completing her master's degree in computer science at University of Southern California, she worked on artifical intelligence and computer vision focusing on motion analysis.

Watt, Stephen - Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr Watt is an expert in the area of computer algebra, the of studyalgorithms and software to allow computers to do mathematics, producing equations and expressions rather than simply numbers. Dr Watt's contributions to the field have been both practical and theoretical: In the 1980s, Dr Watt was one of the original authors of Maple, a computer algebra system now with over 3 million users.Later, at IBM, he was one of the principal designers of the Axiom computer algebra system, and the architect of the Aldor programming language and its compiler.In the 1990's Dr Watt was a pioneer in establishing two new directionsfor mathematical software: the area of symbolic-numeric algorithms forpolynomials and the area of internet-accessible mathematics. He is one of the creators of the W3C MathML standard and of OpenMath, two XML formats for the representation and exchange of mathematical objects.Most recently, Dr Watt has been investigating strategies for pen-based input for mathematical software, and participates in the W3C working groupdefining InkML. Dr Watt has received several awards for his work in these areas, recently including the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award, the CANARIE IWAY Award and the UWO Faculty of Science Distinguished Research Professorship.

Wilson, Yvonne - Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Yvonne Wilson is an architect for Sun Microsystems.Her current focus is Identity Management for largeenterprises. Previous endeavors have includeddirectory services, application design for security,java application design and deployment, cost effectiveautomated testing, and role based access control deployments.

Winn, Jane - Professor, University of Washington School of Law, USA
Jane K. Winn J.D. (Harvard) joined UW in 2002 to teach technology, commercial, and international trade law, and to serve as a Director of the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology. She previously taught technology, commercial and comparative law at Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas. Professor Winn is a member of the American Law Institute and a board member of CALI - Computer Assisted Legal Instruction. She is the author of many articles on electronic commerce law, as well as the coauthor of the treatise Law of Electronic Commerce (4th ed. 2001) and the casebook Electronic Commerce (2002). Her current research interests include electronic commerce law developments in the US, EU and Greater China.

Wrightson, Ann - Principal Consultant, CSW Group Ltd, United Kingdom
Ann has over 25 years of wide-ranging ICT experience and is an internationally recognized expert in XML and related technologies. She has experience of supporting and leading change, enabling technology adoption and migration, implementing standards, and facilitating understanding between business and technical staff involved in managing business change. Ann presents regularly at international conferences and participates in standards development both in the UK and internationally. Ann is a strategic thinker with strong analysis, synthesis and interpersonal skills, and a good communicator both verbally and in writing. She is highly experienced in working interactively with individuals and groups to facilitate understanding and resolution of complex issues, and has advised amongst others the Cabinet Office eGU (formerly the Office of the e-Envoy), the Local e-Government Standards Body, the National Archives, the NHS Information Authority, the Houses of Parliament, British Telecom, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers Global IT.