Christopher R. Maden

1231 46th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
+1.415.845.8202

Objective

Currently employed, and not actively seeking employment.

Skills

Publications, Talks, Standards, and Patents

2002
Featured speaker, XML SIG, Object Developers Group of New York, on XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0
2001–2002
Member, Open eBook Forum Publication Structure Working Group
2000–2002
Member, W3C XML Linking Working Group (producers of XPointer, XLink, XML Base, and XPath)
1997–2002
Member, W3C XSL Working Group (producers of XPath, XSLT, and XSL)
2001
Learning XML, from O’Reilly & Associates (contributing author)
2000
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)
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)
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)
1999
Featured speaker, XML SIG, Object Developers Group of New York, discussing XSL
Patent 5,893,109, “Generation of chunks of a long document for an electronic book system”, the DynaWeb large document “chunking” algorithm (co-holder)
Solicited pre-publication reviewer of The LaTeX Web Companion by Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz
1996–1998
Active participant in W3C XML Special Interest Group, origin of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Syntax and numerous auxiliary specifications
1997
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)
Solicited pre-publication reviewer of The SGML FAQ Book by Steven DeRose
1994–1995
Member, IETF HTML Working Group; substantive contributor to HTML 2.0

Experience

Data Analyst, Metaweb Technologies, Inc.

San Francisco, CA
2005–

XML Consultant

as crism consulting (2000–2005), and as co-owner of HMM Consulting International, Inc. (2001–2002)

Projects include:

Senior XML Analyst and XML Team Lead, Lexica LLC

San Francisco, CA
2000–2001

Solutions Architect, Yomu

San Francisco, CA
1999–2000

Senior Tools Specialist, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Cambridge, MA
1997–1999

Applications Consultant, Technical Support Product Expert, and SIT Technical Support Representative, Electronic Book Technologies, Inc.

Also known as Inso Corporation Electronic Publishing Systems, Inso eBusiness Technologies, eBT, and Enigma Corporation
Providence, RI
1994–1997

Student Consultant, Brown University Computing and Information Services

Providence, RI
1991–1994

Education

Brown University; Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Salient coursework provided detailed knowledge of computer hardware operation; assembly, C, and Pascal programming languages; practical use of document preparation systems, including MS Word and LaTeX; Russian and Japanese cultural studies; and independent study program development

Miscellaneous