Symposium on proposed OO XML ISO standard - participant notes
See the main page for details of the symposium. On this page are some biographical details of some of the participants.
- Rick Jelliffe
- Matthew Cruickshank
Rick Jelliffe is CTO of Topologi Pty. Ltd, a company making XML-related desktop tools, and spends most of his time working on editors, validators and publishing-related markup. His standards projects include editing an upcoming ISO standard for the Schematron schema language, which he originally developed.
As well as his work with ISO SC34 and the original XML group at W3C, Rick was a sporadic member of the W3C Schema Working Group and the W3C Internationalization Interest Group. He also blogs regularly for XML.com and digitalmedia.oreilly.com. He is the author of The XML & SGML Cookbook; Recipes on Structured Information and lead the Chinese XML Now project at Academia Sinica Computing Centre. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and has an economics degree from Sydney University. [From O'Reillynet]
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Matthew Cruickshank is a developer with some ten years experience using SGML and XML languages. He has been involved in the New Zealand E-government's Web Guidelines, various Disability and Accessibility initiatives, and also the XML use in the e-GIF standard. Matthew develops open source conversion software called Docvert (http://docvert.org/ ) which is based on DocBook XML and ODF.
Matthew is a standards advocate who has made significant technical contributions to the understanding of OOXML. He was involved in the Standards New Zealand workshop which helped advise the New Zealand ISO vote, and has authored several documents on the subject such as "Microsoft and Standards: Can Other Vendors Implement OOXML?".
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- Colin Jackson
- Ronald Yu
- Steve Mutkoski
Colin Jackson is a technologist who is also a policy maker and a writer. After a first career as a developer, Colin joined New Zealand government in 1993 to do IT policy. In 1994 Colin started New Zealand's first ever government web server. In 2000 he joined the E-Government Unit in the State Services Commission, which worked to bring all government departments on line. While at EGU, Colin worked on standards, among other things. In particular Colin was for a time responsible for developing the E-GIF, the E-Government interoperability framework, which is a suite of technical standards that government departments are required to follow. Colin also led work on common web standards for government agencies, and on the early stages of a shared government network.
Since 2005 Colin has been a consultant specialising in technology, policy and communications, working for mainly public sector clients. He maintains extensive networks of technology policy makers across the government. In August 2007, Colin took part in Standards New Zealand's workshop on OOXML, and has remained active in this space since. Colin was a founder of the not-for-profit domain registry and advocacy group InternetNZ in 1995, which he went on to be president of from 2005 to 2007. He is a weekly technology contributor to Radio New Zealand National, and a sought-after speaker for conferences and seminars.
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Ronald Yu has worked for various technology companies, including IBM as a Systems Engineer and Hewlett-Packard as a Business Development Manager. He has been involved with businesses that provided, inter alia, technical writing, localization and public relations services for technical firms.
He holds Graduate and Postgraduate Degree Certificates in Computer Forensics, an L.L.M. from the University of Hong Kong, a J.D. from the City University of Hong Kong, an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BSME from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. He is also a US Patent Agent.
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Steve Mutkoski is a Regional Director of Interoperability and Innovation on Microsoft’s Asia Pacific regional Corporate Affairs team. Based in Singapore, Steve manages regional activities and programs aimed at creating neutral government policies in relation to software procurement, standards development and adoption, and issues related to the connection between innovation and intellectual property. Steve works with multilateral institutions and regional/global industry associations on matters relating to intellectual property, open source software, open standards and government procurement preferences. He provides support to teams in individual Microsoft subsidiaries across Asia Pacific, China, India and Japan for their work in these areas.
Steve joined Microsoft’s Asia Pacific team after 6 years in Microsoft’s Intellectual Property & Licensing Group (based in Redmond, Washington). In that role, he counseled on a range of open source software and intellectual property related issues as well as supported Microsoft’s IP licensing activities. During this period, Steve developed deep knowledge of Microsoft’s IP procurement, management and licensing practices. Steve is a frequent presenter on open source and intellectual property issues and has spoken at numerous events around the world during his time at Microsoft. He has also published several papers that address complex open source software and intellectual property issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, Steve spent time at the law firms of Preston Gates & Ellis in Seattle and Latham & Watkins in New York where he worked on IP counseling and litigation matters. Steve is a graduate of Cornell Law School and also holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Cornell University.
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