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Speakers
Dave Howard
Circle Learning
Dave Howard is President of the Circle Learning. Dave holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts - Radio and Television from Ryerson University. He has over 25 years of management, human resources, media project development and communications experience. An experienced senior manager, instructor/designer, and media development professional with broad technical competencies, Dave has a proven track record of curriculum development, facilitation and project management. His experience includes leading and managing large and small companies in the fields of telecommunications, education and video production.
Dave Johnson
eBusiness Applications
Dave Johnson is Co-Founder and XML Evangelist at eBusiness Applications, a software consulting company based in North Vancouver. Dave has been working with all things XML (XSD, XSLT, WS-*, ebXML, XAML) for over
7 years. He has BASC degree from the University of British Columbia and a Masters degree from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Dave Shea
CSS Zen Garden Creator
Dave Shea is the creator and cultivator of the highly influential web site csszengarden.com, and co-author of the recently-published Zen of CSS Design (New Riders, 2005).
The founder and design lead of Bright Creative in Vancouver, BC, Dave
also writes for a large global audience of web designers and
developers on his popular weblog, mezzoblue.com. His sites have won
multiple awards, including 'Best of Show 2004' at the South by
Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, TX.
Mik Kersten
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Mik Kersten is an aspect-oriented programming expert, lead of the Mylar
eclipse.org project and committer on the AspectJ and AJDT projects.
While at Xerox PARC, he built the IDE support for AspectJ. Mik is now doing
a PhD at the University of British Columbia, and working on making Eclipse
show developers only what they're interested in (see http://eclipse.org/mylar).
Ralph Giles
Xiph.org Foundation
A freelance programmer and project manager, Ralph Giles volunteers with the
Xiph.org Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the development of freely-implementable digital multimedia technology and the construction of a level playing field for
online multimedia production distribution.
Shane Caraveo
ActiveState, Senior Developer
Shane Caraveo is a Senior Developer at ActiveState where he is the technical lead for the
Komodo IDE, a multi-language IDE for scripting languages that is developed on top of Mozilla. He has four years experience developing on Mozilla using XUL, XBL,
JavaScript and Python. He is a core PHP developer where he worked extensively on SOAP, FastCGI
and the Windows port. He also co-authored the DBGP protocol for providing a standardized debugger communication layer in scripting languages.
Kevin Collins
Navio Systems
Kevin is VP of Engineering at Navio Technologies. Kevin has over sixteen years experience and comes to Navio from Experio Solutions Corporation (a Hitachi company) where he was the National Director for Enterprise Security and developed Experio's security strategy and integration with software development methodologies. Kevin has held executive and senior management positions with Fortune 500 companies and startups including Ernst & Young, NetReliance, and Motorola Wireless Data Group.
Prior to Navio, Kevin was co-founder and CTO for NetReliance, Inc. a company that was started to develop leading edge security and trust services targeted at the supply chain management market. In addition, Kevin has consulted with preeminent international organizations on the development, integration, and implementation of security technologies including public key infrastructure, directory services, and policy management systems.
Adrian Fisher-Fleming
Brief Legal
Adrian Fisher-Fleming is the lead developer of Brief Documents and one of the founders of Brief Legal Software. After graduating from BCIT in 1999, Adrian worked on software development projects in Vancouver, Connecticut and Sydney, Australia. Adrian's recent focus has been on emerging Java/XML technologies and their application to the legal market.
Tom Magliery
BlastRadius,XML Technology Specialist
Tom has been a member of the XMetaL team at Corel and Blast Radius since 2002,frequently focused on developing proof-of-concept and sales demos for
the XMetaL family of products. In recent memory he rode out the dot-com bubble at a software startup in Austin, Texas. Before that he served time at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applicationsin Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where he was lucky enough to work on the
NCSA Mosaic
browser during the early web frenzy and participate in the creation of XML 1.0.
He has facilitated millions of cheaters at Scrabble since 1994,
and is one of the world's leading authorities on the number 37.
Dethe Elza
BlastRadius
Dethe Elza is a Senior Technical Architect at BlastRadius, and a founder of the BlastRadius Products division. He has taught workshops in XML and XSLT for UBC's certificate program. His work experience ranges from developing 3D for the web at Antarcti.ca, scalable J2EE infrastructure at Communicate.com, and CORBA-based telephone switch monitoring at Lucent. His Master's thesis incorporating XML was defended the week after XML was made a Recommendation at the W3C.
Dethe currently works to develop applications which benefit from and showcase the BlastRadius Distributed DOM technology and is teaching programming to his 8-year-old daughter.
Arron Ferguson
XUI Project, Founder
Arron Ferguson Dipl. T, B.Tech. (Hons) has been teaching various computer systems technology courses at the British Columbia Institute of Technology now for nine years. Some of the topics Arron has been teaching include Java programming, XML technologies, games programming, multimedia authoring, 2D and 3D animation and Web design..
Ron DeSerranno
MOBIFORM Software Ltd., Founder
Ron DeSerranno is the founder of MOBIFORM Software Ltd., founder of BoardMaster Software and co-founder/CTO for Motivus Software Ltd, a successful wireless software company. Mr. DeSerranno is a developer, serial entrepreneur and a former Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has worked as a lead for Rockwell Software spending 4 years as the point on their flagship industrial automation product. Mr. DeSerranno has been developing world class software products for many years, writing his first piece of software in 1981. His post secondary education is extensive covering environmental, physical and computer sciences. For the past couple of years, Mr. DeSerranno's technology focus and expertise has been in XML based graphics, including SVG and XAML.
Jost Klopfstein
Axos Technologies, Founder, CEO and Business Development
Prior to co-founding Axos Technologies in January of 2004, Jost spent 20 years in the IT industry as a project manager, consultant, team leader, architect and developer for leading companies including IBM and Zurich Financial Services. At Axos he is responsible for Integration Services and Business Development and brings a unique combination of IT experience and a previous background in the print industry to this new business of high quality, personalized print solutions based on open standards. Since 1999, he has focused on XML technologies and has over 10 years experience in application integration. Jost holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Berne, Switzerland.
Gloria A. Klopfstein
Axos Technologies, Co-founder, Finance and Marketing
Co-founder of Axos Technologies and currently a Business Analyst/Project Management Consultant in Vancouver, BC. Previously Gloria was a Project Manager at the Union Bank of Switzerland, UBS Corporate Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland in the IT Risk and Credit Group, and Business Analyst at the UBS Warburg Investment Division. Previous to that she was Marketing Manager for Europe at PLC Medical Systems Zug, Switzerland and Business Analyst (Marketing and Finance) for a software product in Swiss Healthcare. Gloria has an Applied Science Degree and an MBA in International Business. She is the Marketing Events Coordinator for the non-profit Women’s technology group Wired Woman and has also recruited speakers and organized their monthly chapter meetings.
Ed Simon
XMLsec, Founder
Ed Simon has been an ardent advocate and implementor of XML since 1997 and is co-author of both the XML Signature and XML Encryption specifications. Today, he provides consulting and training services in the area of XML Security through his company XMLsec (http://www.xmlsec.com). Prior to starting XMLsec, Ed served as Entrust's XML Security Architect, explored new online information technologies at IBM, and developed biomedical research software at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine. Ed holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Alberta.
Sam Wilmott
Independent Consultant
Sam Wilmott has a long experience with both the design and use of programming languages, of text processing applications, and of markup languages and markup language processors. He is a long-term participant in and observer of standardization activities in these fields. He was Head of typesetting software development at the Canadian Queen's Printer, helped develop an on-line and automated publishing system for a Vancouver real-estate company, and was the architect of the OmniMark programming language.
Kirstan Vandersluis
XAware Inc., CTO and Founder
As founder and Chief Technology Officer of XAware, Kirstan has been instrumental in developing XAware's product suite, leading to four patent applications, the first of which was issued by the Patent Office in March 2002. Kirstan's twenty years of experience in software development spans multiple industries, including financial services, DoD, semiconductor, and telecommunications, where he has engineered the deployment of both corporate and commercial software products. Kirstan's numerous accomplishments with MCI include the architecture, development and implementation of eighteen call center applications for MCI's Call Center Services group, design of a multi-tier, Web-based Local Service Order Collection platform and as Siebel architect, deploying Siebel Systems on several projects.
At Array Microsystems, Kirstan led the design and implementation of a chip-level emulator and flowgraph-based environment for JPEG and MPEG coding and decoding. While with the US Air Force, Kirstan designed real-time command, control and communications software for US Space Command, processing messages from distributed sites into a central application located deep in the secure interior of Space Command in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.
Kirstan often speaks publicly about XML-related technologies and XAware product strategies and has recently published a book entitled: XML-Based Integration with XAware.
Randal Bartsch, MCNE
Novell Inc., Senior Technology Account Manager
Randal Bartsch has been involved in the I.T. industry since 1987. He has served as a network consultant, a business applications developer, a project manager, and in management and executive management of networking services for a number of I.T. services firms in BC.
In the fall of 1999, Mr. Bartsch joined Novell's Western Canadian sales team as a Senior Technology Account Manager. Currently he uses his experience with enterprise directory design to assist customers to architect secure, integrated I.T. solutions. Mr. Bartsch's past and present industry certifications include those from Compaq, IBM, and Novell.
Denise Draper
Nimble Technologies, CTO
Denise Draper is a CTO of Nimble Technology, a Seattle-based company that uses XQuery to power its data integration solution. Denise is Nimble's representative to OASIS and the W3C, where she is a member of the XQuery Working Group.
Yuri Khramov
SchemaSoft, Director of Development
Yuri Khramov is Director of Development at SchemaSoft and co-founder of the Vancouver XML Developers Association. Yuri has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry and is currently involved in several XML-related projects.
Prior to SchemaSoft, he worked at Paradigm Development Corp. in Vancouver, Graphica in Tokyo, and several industrial and academic institutions in Moscow. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Management Institute.
Robert Houben
Liberty Integration Software, Vice President R&D
rhouben@gaexpress.com
Robert Houben is a founder of Liberty Integration Software Inc., and has over 20 years experience in the software industry. He has authored several ODBC drivers including: the Red Brick ODBC driver, the Liberty ODBC driver, and the Liberty JDBC driver. For the past four years, he has deployed eCommerce and eBusiness applications that integrate legacy line-of-business DBMS systems using Web technology. He is currently developing an eBusiness integration server for business-to-business integration using XML, XSLT, and XPath.
Michael Rys
Microsoft Corporation, Program Manager for SXQL Server XML Technologies
Michael Rys is program manager for SQL Server’s XML Technologies. He also represents Microsoft Corp. in the W3C XML Query working group and the ANSI SQL standardization effort. He joined Microsoft in 1998 after performing research in the areas of object-oriented and semi-structured databases, multi-level transaction management, and distributed heterogeneous information integration at Stanford University (as post-doc) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where he earned his PhD.
Michael is a member of ACM and IEEE and has given many presentations and contributed to several books on XQuery and XML and databases.
Jim Tivy
Bluestream Database Software Corp, President
Jim Tivy is an architect on the Bluestream XStreamDB product. Previously he has co-authored a multimedia database and the original ODBC SQL engine for Microsoft Access/Btrieve and Dbase.
Philip Mansfield
SchemaSoft, President
After receiving his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from Yale University in 1989, Philip spent one year as Assistant rofessor of Physics at Knox College, followed by four years as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Toronto. This was followed by a career switch to Software Engineering, in which Philip played the successive roles of Software Developer and Research Department Head.
Philip is now President of SchemaSoft (www.schemasoft.com), a software development consulting company he co-founded in 1999. He is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium standards body (www.w3.org), and sits on the BC Advanced Systems Institute International Scientific Advisory Board (www.asi.bc.ca/asi/). He co-founded the Vancouver XML Developers Association (www.vanx.org), and co-authored the Scalable Vector Graphics specification (www.w3.org/TR/SVG/). He regularly lectures on topics related to software engineering and XML.
Darryl Fuller
SchemaSoft, Senior Developer
Darryl leads a software research & development team at SchemaSoft (www.schemasoft.com).
Darryl is an active member of W3C SVG group and co-author of the current SVG recommendations, as well as for the new book
"Definitive SVG". Darryl has been an active developer in Vancouver for more than a decade in such diverse fields as X.400 e-mail,
SNMP, document file format translation, e-commerce back ends, and using XSLT to generate SVG visualizations of data in arbitrary XML.
Darryl has a Computing Science and English degree from Simon Fraser University. When he isn't in front of a computer screen, Darryl
spends his time hiking, playing alto saxophone badly, and reading trashy science fiction novels.
Paul Prescod
Blast Radius
Paul is a leading researcher and implementer
of markup technologies. He is very involved
in the development and promotion of new standards
and has worked within the XML Working Group of
the World Wide Web consortium to develop the XML
family of standards. He co-wrote the most popular
book on that family of standards, The XML Handbook.
His research interests include formalisms for
document modeling, queries and schemata.
Prior to joining ActiveState he was a consulting
engineer at ISOGEN, where he helped organizations
apply ISO and W3C standards to large-scale documentation
problems. Previously, he worked at Watcom on a
groundbreaking visual development environment for
the REXX scripting language. Today he applies that
experience to ActiveState's Mozilla-based IDE, Komodo.
Paul ensures that Komodo implements leading standards
from the XML world.
Paul has a mathematics and computer science degree from
the University of Waterloo. His humanitarian interests
include working as a volunteer for the Canadian Organization
for Human Rights in Nigeria. His hobbies besides writing
Python code comprise: playing classical guitar, traveling
with his wife and learning how to ski on the awesome Pacific
Northwest mountains.
Paul currently works for
Blast Radius (www.blastradius.com) on the development of
tools for the collaborative authoring of XML documents.
David Orchard
Jamcracker, Inc., XML Architect
David Orchard is the chief standards architect for Jamcracker, a leading Web
Services Integrator. He has written numerous technical articles and is a
frequent speaker on various internet related technologies. A recent
highlight is speaking at the W3C Web Services Workshop. He is a member of
the W3C XML Linking, XML Core and XML Protocol committees, OASIS security
services (SAML) committee, UDDI Advisors Group. He is co-editor of the XML
Link and XInclude specifications, and co-editor of the SAML domain model and
core assertions document.
Bruce Sharpe
SoftQuad, CTO
Bruce is responsible for all of SoftQuad?s product
development activities. Bruce's 15-year history of delivering first-class
products to market has honed his ability to apply a successful
combination of hands-on involvement and flawless execution in product
design, feature selection, project management and quality assurance.
Bruce, a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia,
previously held the position of Director of Research and Development
at Gravis Computer Technologies.
Duane Nickull
Adobe, Senior Standards Strategist
The main focus of his professional career has been working for both the United Nations CEFACT committee and OASIS for the purposes of writing and building new architectures for global integration of multiple systems. As of November 2003, he now works for Adobe Systems.
In May 2001, he was co-editor of a team that delivered the first ebXML Technical Architecture Specification after 18 months of grueling work.
He has worked on many other interesting technologies including the first contextual XML Search Engine, an Alternative fuel hydrogen project and the new UN/CEFACT eBusiness Architecture and related technologies.
Chris Lilley
W3C, Technical Staff
Chris Lilley is a member of the W3C technical
staff. He is Graphics Activity
lead, and chairs the SVG and
CSS Working
Groups. He has also participated in the XSL and HTML Working
Groups and contributed to the WebCGM, SMIL Animation and XLink
specifications. Before joining W3C he was involved in the
HTML 2.0 and PNG 1.0 specifications. His interests are raster
and vector graphics, client-side XML, and multilingual typography.
He is a frequent speaker at Web-, XML-, technical-writing- and
Unicode-related conferences.
David Dodds
Lexica, Developer
David Dodds is a member of the XML
Topic Maps and SVG Working Groups. He worked for
Open Text Corporation until recently, when he
joined Lexica.
Tim Bray
Antarcti.ca, CEO
Tim Bray is the co-editor of the
W3C recommendations
"XML 1.0" and "Namespaces in XML." He is also the
Technical Editor for XML.com
and The Gilbane Report. His areas of interest
include: system design, performance optimization,
programming, lecturing, writing, and editing. He currently
serves as CEO of Antarcti.ca Systems Inc.
Howard Katz
FatDog Software, CEO
Howard Katz is the founder and sole proprietor of Fatdog Software, a
firm that specializes in searching XML documents.
The company's main product, XML Query Engine, is a
embeddable Java component that indexes XML documents
and provides an API front-end using the XQL query
language to search the contents of the created repository.
Mr. Katz has been an active programmer for over 20 years,
as well as a contributor of technical articles to the
computer trade press. He has worked as an online columnist
on Java for Microsoft and a monthly contributor on object-oriented
programming to developer publications from Apple Computer.
He lives in Vancouver and is a co-host of the Vancouver XML Developer's
Association. He does ocean kayaking in the summer and back-country skiing in the winter.
Ron Lake
Galdos Systems Inc., President & CEO
Ron brings over 30 years experience in advanced software technology to
his role at Galdos. Ron founded Galdos in 1992 with a vision of
developing technology for scientific data management, and has since
guided the company into a software development firm specializing in the
application of Java/XML technologies to wide area spatial information
systems. As an acknowledged industry leader and technology innovator, he
has a proven track record of complex problem solving.
Previously, Ron was Vice President Engineering for Laser Measurement
International. For 10 years prior to that, he was Principal/Divisional
Engineer for MacDonald Dettwiler Ltd, developing land information and
advanced GIS systems. Ron has a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science
(Aerospace Engineering), a M.A.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering, and a M.Sc.
in Mathematics (Algebraic Topology/Differential Geometry), from the
University of Toronto. He is the GML (Geographic Markup Language)
creator, editor and a founding member of the OpenGIS Consortium. Ron is
currently the chairman of the OGC GML Special Interest Group.
David Green
Make Technologies, CTO
David Green is focused on increasing technical innovation at Make and is
responsible for the development of Make's Rapid Development Engine and
Open Standards Production Environment.
As the Chief Technology Officer, he was one of the first employees at
Make Technologies where he created Make's Rapid Development Engine, the
cornerstone of Make's own consulting practice, which integrates
"best-of-breed" open source software on the Java 2 platform.
Prior to joining the Make team, David served as a Senior Architect at
Caribbean Online. David was a senior engineer at Imediat Digital where
he was responsible for delivering their most critical e-commerce and
dot-com systems.
David previously served as System Architect for Automated Debit Systems
overseeing the development and launch of their flagship ebill product
line; a B2B portal connecting insurance brokers to receivables lenders
via the Internet. He also served as System Architect for Starnet
Communications pioneering the e-commerce technologies such as online
credit card transaction processing, distributed user authentication,
pay-per-second billing and custom content delivery. He has extensive
experience in open standards technologies, Internet development,
cryptography, security, OLTP, databases and component technologies.
Kurt Cagle
Cagle Communications, President
Kurt Cagle is a writer and software developer working for Mercurial
Communications in Victoria, BC. He has authored eighteen books on a wide
variety of technical topics, including much of the underpinnings of the
emerging open source web, SVG, AJAX, XML architecture and the ethics of
software development, writes a bi-weekly column on the same at
http://www.understandingxml.com and provides consultative services (okay,
speaks in dread, oracular tones) on critical directions of the web. Kurt
is the chairman of the international SVG Open 2006 Conference in Victoria,
BC, (Aug 22-25) focusing on the rise of open standards graphics and
presentation technologies.
He has a web presence at http://www.kurtcagle.net.
Dennis Sosnoski
Sosnoski Software Solutions, Inc., President
Dennis Sosnoski is an enterprise architecture consultant and developer
with over 30 years experience. He's spent the last four years working with Java, primarily designing and building
server-side enterprise applications using J2EE and related technologies.
Dennis has written articles and lectured on a variety of Java- and XML-related topics. His recent projects include the open source XMLBench
, used for comparing the performance of Java document models, and XML Stream (XMLS), a high
performance XML stream encoding format implemented in Java. Dennis also hosts the Seattle Java-XML SIG, an affiliate of the Seattle Java Users Group (SeaJUG).
Alexander Vaschillo
Microsoft Corporation,Lead Program Manager
Alexander Vaschillo, Ph.D., is a Lead Program Manager for XML Technologies at Microsoft.
He is responsible for driving Data Mapping Technologies and shipping SQLXML releases.
Alexander has been working in the field of Databases and Information Integration for the last 7 years.
He is a frequent speaker at various technology conferences. Before joining Microsoft he was managing
the High-Performance Database Research Center in Florida.
Dr. Michael Levy
NewHeights Software Corporation
,VP Research and Development
Dr. Michael Levy joined NewHeights in 1999 to lead research and development initiatives. Since 1980, Dr. Levy has been a faculty member in the department of computer science at the University of Victoria.
Dr. Levy obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 1979 and completed his post-doctoral year at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. Following his post-doctoral studies, Dr. Levy joined Bell Northern Research (now Nortel), where he was a member of the scientific staff. He has also acted as a consultant for the government of British Columbia, and for several software companies in Victoria and Vancouver.
Dr. Levy's sabbaticals have included work at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England, and a year working with Softwords Research, a software company that is now part of Pacific Coast Net. His research has been published in journals such as Software Practice and Experience, the Journal of Software and Systems, and New Generation Computing.
Ajay Sidda
Cypresslogic Systems Inc,
President
Ajay Sidda is the founder of Cypresslogic and has
extensive experience in visual modeling and object-oriented
development tools. Prior to Cypresslogic, he was
Vice-President of Engineering at BrainTech and held key
developer positions at Microsoft and NASA. He holds a Master's
degree in Computer Science from University of Houston. His
interests outside of work are scuba-diving and motorcycling.
Gerald Bauer
Independent Consultant
Gerald Bauer is an independent Java, XML
and Web consultant and open-source advocate proficient in C#
(informally known as chairmain, CEO, CFO and CTO of Me, Myself
& I, Inc.) Gerald open sourced Rachel (Resource Loading Toolkit for Web Start) and Luxor (XUL Toolkit). He also started and maintains the Unofficial Web Start FAQ, develops the Venus Application Publisher (Vamp) tool suite, and publishes "The Saturn Times" weekdays. He holds a Master's Degree in social and economic sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria and was choosen for the International Management Program at New York University's Stern Business School.
Alison Meynert
SchemaSoft, Developer
Alison Meynert is the most recent addition to SchemaSoft's development team as of her November 22nd, 2002 presentation.
She completed three of her co-op work terms with NewHeights Software Corporation and was part
of the initial development group working on the XMLLite parser presented at VanX by Dr. Michael Levy.
Alison has a Computer Science and Statistics degree from the University of Victoria, where
she was the top graduate in her department. She spent the summer 2002 term funded by an NSERC grant researching
algorithms for the generation of Latin squares (www.cs.uvic.ca/~ameynert/lsq/).
Aaron Lees
Schemasoft, Senior Developer
Aaron Lees joined SchemaSoft after graduating University of Victoria in 2001. Since then, he worked on major development projects for Microsoft, Apple and Kyocera, and he is actively involved in XML schema development activity at SchemaSoft.
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