Curriculum Vitæ

Standards Involvement

• Currently an Invited Expert to the W3C XSL Working Group, creators of XPath, XSLT, and XSL (previously a representative of O'Reilly & Associates, Yomu, and Lexica)
• Currently an Invited Expert to the W3C Linking Working Group, creators of XPath, XPointer, XLink, and XML Base (previously a representative of Yomu and Lexica)
• Invited Expert, Open eBook Forum Publication Structure Working Group
• Member of W3C SGML Working Group and XML Special Interest Group, advisory group in creation of XML (1996-1998)
• Unofficial reviewer, ISO 10179:1996 (DSSSL)
• Member of IETF HTML Working Group, producers of HTML 2.0 (1994-1995)

Publications and Presentations

• Learning XML, O'Reilly & Associates, 2001 (contributing author)
• XML: A General Overview, May 2000 meeting of the San Francisco Chapter of the Association of Internet Professionals (panel discussion with Deborah Hooker, hosted by Wayne Cunningham)
• Managing Documentation with XML, Documentation & Training 2000
• XML Design Clinic, Software Development 2000 (panel discussion with Elliotte Rusty Harold and Steve Demuth)
• Æsop: A Browser for XML Documents and Open eBook Publication Structures, XTech 2000 (co-author with Deborah Hooker)
• Featured speaker, Object Developers Group of New York, discussing XSL, July 1999
• Problems with Dynamically Assembled Document Portions, and Some Solutions, SGML/XML '97 (co-author with Steven DeRose)
• "An Ad-Hoc Proposal for Extensible Semantic Mathematical Markup" (poster presentation), SGML/XML '97
• XML, SGML, and the Future of the WWW, The SGML Forum of New York (featured speaker)
• "SGML, Record End Handling, and the Test of Least Surprise", (poster presentation with Gavin Nicol), SGML '96

Patents

• Patent 5,893,109, "Generation of chunks of a long document for an electronic book system", the DynaWeb large document "chunking" algorithm (co-holder)
• Patent 6,055,544, "Generation of chunks of a long document for an electronic book system", further work on the DynaWeb large document "chunking" algorithm (co-holder)

Boards and Other Organizations

• Technical Advisory Board member, Windspun, Inc.
• Trustee, St. Anthony Trust of Rhode Island, Inc.
• Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco

Employment

• Principal, crism consulting, 2001-
• Principal Consultant & Chief Technical Officer, HMM Consulting International, Inc., 2001-2002
• Senior XML Analyst & XML Team Lead, Lexica LLC, 2000-2001
• Solutions Architect, Exemplary Technologies, Inc./Yomu, 1999-2000
• Senior Tools Specialist, O'Reilly & Associates, 1997-1999
• Applications Consultant, Technical Support Representative, Technical Support Product Expert, and SIT Technical Support Representative, Electronic Book Technologies, Inc./Inso Corp., 1994-1997
• Student Consultant, Brown University Computing and Information Services, 1991-1994

More Detail

For a more detailed description of my career, see my résumé.