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Subject: Industry specific XML experts
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: jack12345-ga
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Posted: 23 Jan 2003 08:56 PST
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Question ID: 147485
I would like to get information on experts in XML related to banking,
health care, government and brokerage.  Specifically, experts in
industry XML standards such as MISMO, HL7/XML, OFX, IFX, etc.  These
people many times have authored books and/or offer training in these
industry subject areas.  The focus is on the XML expertise as it
relates to an industry and not people who are generic XML
professionals.

The result of the search would be a list of people for each of the
four industries and a brief background on their quailifications.

Thank you,

Jack
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Subject: Re: Industry specific XML experts
Answered By: nellie_bly-ga on 23 Jan 2003 22:02 PST
 
The people on this list have either been speakers or workshop leaders
at major XML conferences or have been noted as "expert" by newspapers,
periodicals or their peers.

The amount and quality of biographical information varies greatly, but
I have included whatever was readily available either from conference
program notes or from company or personal websites.

I have combined your categories of "banking" and "brokerage" into
"finance" because the other two terms were used very infrequently. I
have added a category of 'non-specific" to include several persons
whose credentials do not fall easily into another category. Many of
those listed could easily be classified in more than one category.
Within category, the listings are in no particular order.

FINANCE

Anthony B. Coates
Leader of XML Architecture & Design
Reuters
Chief Technology Office
London
United Kingdom
Email: Tony.Coates@reuters.com Web:
http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/
Anthony B. Coates is Leader of XML Architecture & Design in Reuters
Chief Technology Office, and represents Reuters on technical working
groups for FpML (Financial Products Markup Language), Market Data
Definition Language (MDDL), and IRML (Investment Research Markup
Language). He is an architect of Reuters' MarketsML specification. As
Leader of XML Architecture & Design, Tony recommends XML technologies
and design strategies to product groups within Reuters to co-ordinate
the business usage of XML and leverage the best available solutions.
This includes both general XML technologies and specific vertical
market XML languages. His background includes developing software for
technical analysis & financial graphics, developing multimedia & Web
applications, and theoretical & experimental physics. He has worked
with XML since 1998. Prior to joining Reuters CTO, Tony worked as a
software engineer for Equity Systems Pty Ltd, where he designed and
implemented an XML architecture for financial graphics solutions.
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Alan Coleman
is a business consultant with Macalla Software. He has extensive
experience in the functional and design analysis of e- and m-Commerce
software solutions for the financial markets. Before joining Macalla
Alan was a business analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter working in
their Derivative Risk Technology Group. He is a sitting member on the
FpML Architecture Working Group, a finance industry initiative to
further the adoption of e-Commerce to the Derivative Markets. Alan is
also on the steering committee for JSIG (Java Special Interest Group)
in Ireland. His academic qualifications include B.Sc. (Computer
Science and Mathematics) and Masters of Business Studies (Management
Information Systems).
 Macalla Software,  172 Merrion Road
Dublin  Dublin  4 Ireland 
Phone: +353 1 2608113 Fax: +353 1 2608117 email:
Alan.Coleman@Macalla.com web site: www.macalla.com
 
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Dr. Robert J. Glushko 
Director, Advanced Technology
Commerce One
2440 W. El Camino Real, Suite 710 Mountain View (California)  USA
(94040)
Email: mailto:glushko@commerceone.com Web
site:http://www.commerceone.com

Bob Glushko is responsible for XML strategy, standards, and "community
applications" at Commerce One, which he joined in January 1999 when it
acquired Veo Systems, which he'd helped found in 1997. Prior to Veo
Systems, Glushko was the Chief Scientist and Vice President of Passage
Systems, a consulting and systems integration firm specializing in
SGML-based publishing (which he co-founded in 1992). He has an
undergraduate degree from Stanford, a MS (Software Engineering) from
the Wang Institute, and a PhD (cognitive psychology) from UC San
Diego.

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Adam Greissman 
Director, Financial Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Email: Adam.Greissman @ us.pwcglobal.com 
 
Greissman is a practice leader in middleware technology and XML. He is
a member of the PwC executive committee for Financial Products Markup
Language (FpML). He is currently managing the development of projects
in Asia, North America and Europe.
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Andrew Price 
Principal Consultant, Financial Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Email: Andrew.Price @ uk.pwcglobal.com 
 
Price specializes in delivering performance improvement solutions to
capital markets institutions. He is coordinating FpML working group
sessions activity in Europe.
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Jeffery R. Eck
Global eXchange Services
100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20837
Jeffery.Eck@gxs.com
Jeffery R. Eck has more than 20 years of experience in the B2B and A2A
e-commerce field. Currently as XML Chancellor and Global Product
Marketing Manager at Global eXchange Services (GXS), Jeff is
responsible for worldwide marketing and product management of XML and
EDI data transformation software. Mr. Eck participates in a variety of
XML standards organizations such as ebXML and OASIS, and is closely
involved in other XML initiatives. Mr. Eck has a patent pending in the
field of XML e-commerce automation. Prior to joining to GXS, Jeff Eck
was responsible for the corporate B2B initiatives at the Union Carbide
Corporation / Eveready Battery Company / Ralston Purina Corporation.
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Axel Kramer 
 Kramer_Axel@jpmorgan.com
 a consultant to JP Morgan and co-chair of the FpML technical
commitee. FpML stands for Financial Product Markup Language. It is a
joint venture of JP Morgan and Price Waterhouse Coopers to develop a
protocol for the internet for the financial derivatives industry.
www.fpml.org.
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Brian Lynn
J P Morgan & co-chair, FpML Standards Committee 
Vice President, Derivatives Architect 
lynn_brian@jpmorgan.com 
http://www.fpml.org 

Brian Lynn, Vice President, Derivatives Architect at J.P. Morgan, has
over 14 years of software applications development experience, five of
which have been in financial derivatives. At JP Morgan he is program
manager for FpML and is responsible for technology architecture and
strategy in its interest rate derivatives and exotics group. Prior to
joining JPM in September, he was a Managing Director at CIBC World
Markets, where he was responsible for its fixed income quantitative
research and development group. Previously at CIBC he was responsible
for key parts of its derivatives technology, including a commodity
derivatives trading system, spreadsheet analytics, front and middle
office risk and P/L reporting applications, a global risk data
consolidation system, a global credit exposure calculation system, and
various operational reporting applications. He was exposed to fixed
income, commodity, equity, credit and FX derivatives. Prior to joining
CIBC, he worked in a variety of industries, including a stint
developing the Canadian nuclear industry?s software development
standards. He has a B.A. with honors in Physics from Harvard, where he
studied chaos theory.
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Eugene Kuznetsov
Founder, President and CTO
DATAPOWER TECHNOLOGY INC
 Kuznetsov is the founder of DataPower Technology, a stealth-mode
startup providing next-generation XML acceleration solutions. He was
previously involved in three different optimized Java VM
implementations, and led the Java JIT Compiler effort for the
Macintosh version of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.
XML for Financial Services 2003 faculty
 http://www.datapower.com 
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Dale Waldt
Program Director
OASIS & XML.ORG
dale.waldt@riag.com 

 Dale Waldt is currently VP of Product Technology for RIAG's Tax
Information Product Group, where he leads a team of developers
creating SGML & XML based applications and research tools. Dale has
written, spoken and taught around the world on structured text
application development and is a co-author of The SGML Implementation
Guide (Springer, 1995). XML for Financial Services 2003 faculty
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Walter Hamscher
Chair
XBRL INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
Walter Hamscher helps organizations to exploit the cost savings and
increased flexibility available to them through strategic commitments
to technology standards, particularly with respect to XML-based
standards for electronic commerce. In March 2002, Walter was elected
Chairman of the Steering Committee of XBRL International, a non-profit
consortium responsible for the eXtensible Business Reporting Language,
an open specification for financial reporting using XML. XBRL
International counts among its members Microsoft, SAP, Morgan Stanley,
KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, Moody’s, the FDIC, UK
Inland Revenue, the AICPA, and over 140 other organizations worldwide.
http://home.earthlink.net/~hamscher/WHBio.htm
Walter Hamscher
Standard Advantage
265 Oak Hill Circle
Concord, MA 01742
e-mail: walter@hamscher.com
US/GSM mobile: +1 (617) 515-1424
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 John Stone 
financial services practice director for professional services for
Software AG, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Software AG, Europe's
largest systems software provider and a pioneer in XML technologies.
Stone's primary responsibilities will concentrate on the development
and implementation of XML-based technology solutions for the financial
services industry.
Prior to joining Software AG, Stone served as vice president of
services for a network-embedded middleware outsourcing company and was
a partner in Arthur Andersen's financial services technology practice.
Stone's other industry experience includes various consulting
engagements for leading financial services companies, such as Aetna,
Goldman Sachs, Chase, Citibank, Fidelity, First Boston, Freddie Mac,
Merrill Lynch, MetLife, The Prudential and Travelers Group, helping
them leverage information technologies for measurable business
benefits.
A frequently invited speaker at corporations, professional societies,
academic institutions, and conferences, Stone often shares his views
on how to manage cost and risk when leveraging old and new
technologies with audiences from different sectors of the financial
services community.
His book, Developing Software Applications in a Changing IT
Environment, contains workable strategies, and techniques for managing
the multiple, rapidly evolving, and conflicting, information
technologies that today's organizations encounter in developing and
implementing large-scale applications.
www.softwareagusa.com
Software AG, Inc. Headquarters 11190 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
Phone: 703-860-5050
Fax: 703-391-6975 
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Clive Finkelstein
acknowledged worldwide as the "Father" of Information Engineering, is
Managing Director of Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd in
Australia.
He is an internationally renowned consultant and instructor, and has
completed projects for defence, government and commercial
organisations throughout the world and in most industries.
His current focus is to help organisations build and deliver
Enterprise Architecture using Enterprise Engineering. He helps them
move to Corporate Portals (also called Enterprise Portals) with
Extensible Markup Language (XML). These provide a central gateway to
the information and knowledge resources of an enterprise on its
corporate Intranet and via the Internet. They require XML for
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), to achieve B2B ebusiness
integration.

 Clive Finkelstein is Managing Director of Information Engineering
Services Pty Ltd (IES) and of Visible Systems Australia Pty Ltd (VSA)
in Perth, Western Australia. He is the Chief Scientist of Visible
Systems Corporation in Boston MA, Alexandria VA, Austin TX and
Bellevue WA. He resides in Perth. He has over 38 years' experience in
the Computer Industry.

A dynamic, engaging keynote speaker and instructor, he has been a
distinguished member of the International Advisory Board of DAMA
International (Data Administration Management Association), with John
Zachman and Ron Shelby.

Contact Clive Finkelstein by email at cfink@ies.aust.com or by mail,
phone or fax at: 
Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd
PO Box 246, Hillarys WA 6923 Australia
Phone: +61-8-9309-6163
Fax: +61-8-9309-6165
IES Web Site: http://www.ies.aust.com/~ieinfo/ 
Visible Web Site: http://www.visible.com.au/  
***************************************************************

HEALTHCARE

John  Chelsom
Managing Director, CSW Informatics Ltd 
  
CSW Informatics Ltd
Managing Director
CSW Informatics Ltd, Oxford Centre For Innovation, Mill Street, Oxford
OX2 0JX (United Kingdom)
Tel: +44/0 1865 794 789  Fax:+44/0 1865 205 008
 john@csw.co.uk
www.csw.co.uk/info 

 John Chelsom is Managing Director of CSW Informatics, a company
dedicated to providing information management solutions using SGML
databases, workflow and Intranet technology. Originally trained as an
electrical engineer, John worked first as an X-Ray engineer and later
gained a PhD for work on the application of knowledge based systems in
medicine. From there it was a short step to the world of SGML where he
has been responsible for the design and development of SGML
information management systems using both object and relational
database technology. John is also the presenter of the Technology
Appraisals seminar series on SGML Document Databases.
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Dave  Nurse
Head of Research
  CSW Informatics Ltd 
 Oxford 
 United Kingdom 

CSW Informatics Ltd,  4220 Nash Court
Oxford Business Park South
Oxford   OX4 2RU United Kingdom 
 dave.nurse@csw.co.uk 
 www.csw.co.uk 

 Dave Nurse holds a Fellowship in Clinical Biochemistry from
Portsmouth Polytechnic and an MSc in Medical Informatics from the
University of Wales College of Medicine. His thesis was on the
application of Hypertext systems for clinical support information.
Dave is a specialist in clinical laboratory computing and has gained
wide experience across all areas of medical informatics. His role as
Head of Research at CSW involves the investigation and application of
new technologies for CSW's solutions in the Healthcare, Engineering,
Financial and Publishing sectors.

He is a frequent speaker at informatics events and conferences, and
has published many papers on medical informatics topics in journals
that include the Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers and
Healthcare Computing.
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Joachim  Dudeck
Head of department, Institute of Medical Informatics
University of Giessen,  Giessen  Germany 
 joachim.dudeck@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de 
 

 Prof. Dudeck is head of the department of Medical Informatics at the
University hospital in Giessen (UHG). He has been involved in the
development of medical data dictionaries, knowledge based hospital
information and application systems. Since 1993 he is chair of the HL7
user group in Germany and became involved in XML applications in
particular in healthcare and as interchange format in messaging. He
was also chairman of the CEN TC 251 XML Tasc Force. The institute was
partner of the ISIS XML /EDI Pilot Project.
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Sandy Boyer 
Patient Record Architecture,  Laguna Beach  California USA
slboyer@ibm.net

Sandy Boyer is a pharmacist/drug information specialist and
consultant. She worked for many years with the U.S. Pharmacopeia
developing content for the USP DI drug information compendium and
played a major role in the conversion of their database into SGML. She
has been working for over 2 years with the AusDI project in Sydney,
Australia which is publishing an SGML-encoded compendium of Australian
drug information in print and on CD-ROM.
 
Sandy has been involved with the HL7 SGML/XML SIG for 2-1/2 years in
its efforts to develop standards for the application of XML to
healthcare information. She is one of the original members of the KEG
(Kona Editorial Group), which was assigned primary responsibility by
the SIG for development of the PRA Architecture for ballot within HL7.
She has given a presentation on use of XML in healthcare at XML Europe
in Paris and co-presented The Basics of XML at the HL7 Plenary Meeting
in September 1999 in Atlanta. She is a member of HL7 and the American
Medical Informatics Association.
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Jane  Grimson
Associate Professor
Trinity College Dublin,  Centre for Health Informatics
Dept. of Computer Science
Dublin   2 Ireland 
Phone: +353 (1) 608 1780 Fax: +353 (1) 677 2204 email:
jane.grimson@cs.tcd.ie web site: www.cs.tcd.ie/CHI/

Professor Jane Grimson obtained her batchelors degree in Engineering
from Trinity College Dublin and her Masters and Doctorate in Computer
Science form the Universities of Toronto and Edinburgh. She joined the
Department of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer
in 1980 where she is now an Associate Professor. She was Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering and Systems Sciences from 1996 to 1999. She has
published over 80 papers in journals and the proceedings of
international conferences, and has co-authored a textbook on
Distributed Database Systems published by Addison-Wesley. Her main
research interests are in distributed information systems and health
informatics. She has acted as principal investigator on several EU and
national research projects. She established the Knowledge and Data
Engineering Research Group in the Department of Computer Science and
also, together with colleagues from the Faculty of Health Sciences,
the Centre for Health Informatics in Trinity College. She is a
Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society, Irish
Computer Society, Institution of Engineers of Ireland, Irish Academy
of Engineering, and the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and a
member of ACM and IEEE. She is a member of the Irish Council for
Science, Technology and Innovation and chaired the Materials and
Manufacturing Processes Panel of the Government's Technology Foresight
Initiative. She is President of the Institution of Engineers of
Ireland for 1999-2000.
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Benjamin  Jung
 Research Assistant
 Trinity College Dublin,  Centre for Health Informatics
Dept. of Computer Science
Dublin   2 Ireland 
Phone: +353 (1) 608 1335 Fax: +353 (1) 677 2204 email:
benjamin.jung@cs.tcd.ie web site: www.cs.tcd.ie/CHI/

Benjamin Jung is a PhD student and Research Assistant in the Knowledge
and Data Engineering Group at Trinity College Dublin. Before he came
to Ireland he graduated from Technische Universitaet Muenchen in 1996
with a masters degree in computer science and theoretical medicine. He
is involved in two major European Medical Informatics projects
(Synapses, SynEx), where he works in the Electronic Healthcare Record
Architecture group. Within the EU-project SynEx, he is the Technical
Team Leader for Trinity College Dublin and additionally chairs the
SynExML task-force which deals with the development of a common DTD
for the exchange of Electronic Patient Records (EPR). He is also a
member of the CEN/TC251 XML-Taskforce and co-founder of the local XML
working group in the computer science department of Trinity College
Dublin.
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Egil P.  Andersen
 Senior Research Scientist
 Norwegian Computing Center,  P.O.Box 114
Blindern
Oslo   0314 Norway 
Phone: +47 (22) 85 25 94 Fax: +47 (22) 69 76 60 email:
Egil.Andersen@nr.no web site: www.nr.no/

Egil P.Andersen is a senior research scientist at the Norwegian
Computing Center in Oslo, Norway, and he represents Siemens Health
Services in the SynEx project. He has 10 years of research and
development experience with object-oriented and relational systems.
His current research interests are object-oriented analysis/design and
software architectures, particularly relating to the development of
distributed, component-based information systems. He has a BSc, MSc
and PhD degree in computer science.
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John Chelsom 
CSW Group Ltd.
Oxford, Oxon 
UK
Email: john.chelsom@csw.co.uk
Web: http://www.csw.co.uk

Dr John Chelsom is Managing Director of the CSW Group, a company
dedicated to providing information creation, management and delivery
solutions using XML, Internet and database technology. Originally
trained as an electrical engineer, John worked first as an X-Ray
engineer and later gained a PhD for work on the application of
knowledge based systems in medicine. Since founding CSW he has been
responsible for the design and development of XML and SGML information
management systems for some of the world's most prestigious
engineering, healthcare and publishing organisations. John is a
regular speaker at XML conferences, was a contributing author for the
SGML Buyer's Guide and is the presenter of the Technology Appraisals
XML Seminar Series.
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Dr. Andrew Goodchild, DSTC
Dr Andrew Goodchild is a Senior Research Scientist at the Distributed
Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane. He is involved in R&D
related to enterprise data access and exchange and the development of
XML related specifications in the W3C, Good Electronic Health Record
(GEHR) and HL7 Version 3.
DSTC, a Cooperative Research Centre supported by the Australian
Government, is located on the University of Queensland campus and is
the host of the Australian World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Office.
Dr Andrew Goodchild
DSTC
Level 7, GP South
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD. 4072
http://staff.dstc.edu.au/andrewg/ 

Email (work): andrewg@dstc.edu.au
Email (private): andrew_inbox@yahoo.com
Phone (work): +61 7 3365 4310
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Dr. Kai Heitmann
Uni of Cologne, Germany - Author of the HL7 V2.x Standard
Kai Heitmann is the Deputy Head, Medical Informatics Unit, of the
Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology at the
University of Cologne, Germany. He is an acknowledged expert in the
application of XML in Healthcare and has significant involvement in
the architecture and design of hospital information systems, systems
integration and other healthcare application projects.
Kai has been involved in HL7 since 1994 and is the author of the
currently balloted XML Implementation Technology Specification for
V2.x. He also serves on the Board of HL7 Germany and is a member of
the German Institute of Standardisation (DIN).
Kai U. Heitmann, MD
Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology,
University of Cologne
Cologne Germany
 Kai.Heitmann@medizin.uni-koeln.de 
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GOVERNMENT

Jon Parsons 
Director, Product Marketing
XyEnterprise
Reading
Massachusetts 
U.S.A.
 parsons@xyenterprise.com 
 www.xyenterprise.com

Jonathan Parsons - Currently Director of Product Marketing at
XyEnterprise, Jon Parsons is responsible for two XML-based
applications that provide content management and publishing solutions.
He has had over 20 years experience in automating the creation,
management, and delivery of information in multiple forms. Prior to
XyEnterprise, he took on roles as editor, writer, tools developer, and
publishing consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation. He is an
enthusiast for generic mark-up and recently completed a two year term
as a member of the Board of Directors of OASIS, the Organization for
the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
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Steven A. Schafer , Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
»Fenestra Technologies Corporation
»Germantown, Maryland 
»USA
Email: steve@fenestra.com
Web: http://www.fenestra.com/ 

Steve Schafer is Chief Technology Officer for Fenestra Technologies
Corporation, a research-driven software development company and  a
contractor to the US Census Bureau located in the Washington DC
metropolitan area. Speaker at XML Europe 2002.
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Kevin J. Mitchell, Chief Architect, Agogo Networks, United States
www.agogonetworks.com
Mr. Mitchell is a technologist with 9 years experience in
architecture, design and development of object-oriented enterprise and
commercial applications and systems integration. He has direct
exposure to client/server, n-tier and web application architectures
and B2B/EAI integration utilizing web services, XML and commercial
integration products. Mr. Mitchell has industry experience in
acquisition/procurement, mortgage secondary markets and telecom
verticals. Mr. Mitchell has participated in the W3C XML Protocol
Working Group, the Apache SOAP effort, and has authored a binding of
WfXML to SOAP.  API based on XML for DoD procurement.
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Uttam Narsu
Vice President
Research Agenda
The Americas (781) 792-2600, Press “1”
UK, Austria, Germany, Israel, Scandinavia (44) (1753) 842761
Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland,
  The Netherlands (33) (1) 47-58-93-38

 Uttam Narsu covers a broad range of enterprise application
development areas. His current research focus is on XML, Web Services
and agile development methodologies and processes. Uttam also covers
Object-oriented development, OO methodologies and OO languages,
including Java and C#, software configuration management and Internet
testing tools. Uttam focuses on industry-leading companies including
IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, BEA Systems, Rational,
Mercury Interactive and Computer Associates.
 
Uttam has spoken at numerous industry conferences, including eleven in
2002 alone. Highlights include the ACORD May 2002 conference, the
October 2002 Web Services session of the Federal CIO Council, and the
Web Services track chair and speaker for the three Brainstorm/Giga
E-business Integration Conferences (June, September, November 2002).
Uttam is quoted frequently in industry publications, such as
Application Development Trends, CNET (News.com), Computerworld, eWEEK,
InformationWeek and Internet Week, as well as in Business Week and the
Financial Times.
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Marion Royal, an expert at the General Services Administration (GSA)
and co-chairman of the CIO Council's XML Working Group.(that launched
the http://xml.gov portal )
 Marion Royal at (202) 208-4643, e-mail at marion.royal@gsa.gov
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Peter Gallagher, president of Development InfoStructure (devIS), an
Arlington, Va.-based solutions provider that uses XML in its
government projects.
In its September 17, 2001 issue, Federal Computer Week named devIS one
of its "Top Ten Companies to Watch." FCW said devIS is "riding the
cutting edge of both technology and public policy by using open-source
tools and Extensible Markup Language (XML) ..."
http://www.devis.com/
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Sean McGrath, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Propylon.
He's responsible for the technical description of the company and
providing the technical leadership to the Propylon team. He also heads
up the research arm of Propylon specialising in the eContent and
publishing areas of Propylon's operation. Sean is an
industry-recognised XML expert. He has acted as a strategic advisor to
blue-chip corporations such as the Thomson Group and KPMG and
public-sector government agencies such as Reach the Irish Public
Services Broker. He has served as an invited expert on W3C committees
and as a main speaker at numerous worldwide XML events. Sean was
previously co-founder of Digitome, where he built a very successful
electronic publishing company, with a strong client-base.
He was part of the expert group at the W3C that defined XML in 1998. 
http://www.propylon.com/about/management.html
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Robert Haycock, acting manager of e-government at OMB (Office of
Management and Budget, the central budget and policy agency in the
executive branch).  Key note speaker at XML 2002 conference and expo.

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NON-SPECIFIC

Todd Luhtanen, 
Dynatek's Director of Technology,
http://www.dynatek.com/company.asp
Todd Luhtanen of Dynatek has been elected to serve on the Governance
Committee of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Mortgage Industry
Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO). MISMO was recently formed
by the MBA to establish XML data interchange standards for the
mortgage industry. 
Todd Luhtanen, Dynatek's Director of Technology, has been elected to
the board to help lead the effort to establish a thorough data model
representing all aspects of the mortgage lending process. In addition
to the MISMO Governance Committee, Luhtanen also serves as a member of
the XML Architecture Work Group.
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G. Ken Holman 
is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian
corporation offering OmniMark programming, DSSSL and XSL/XSLT language
training, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis
services to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current
Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family
of standards, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C
Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former chair of the
OASIS XML Conformance Technical Subcommittee, the former chair of the
OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Subcommittee, the author of
electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related
technologies, and has often been a speaker at related conferences.
Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a
software development and consulting services company working in the
NAPLPS and the SGML industries.
CRANE SOFTWRIGHTS LTD.
http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/
BOX 266,
KARS, ONTARIO
CANADA K0A-2E0
+1 (613) 489-0999 (Voice)
+1 (613) 489-0995 (Fax)
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 Dr. Mark A. Hale, Ph.D., P.E.
Director of Content Technologies, Interwoven, Inc.
Dr. Mark Hale has been working for a number of years in the field of
information systems integration. He is internationally known for his
work in content technology solutions for business and is considered to
be a leading authority on business strategies for adopting XML. He has
worked for more than a decade in the field, writes for numerous
technical journals and speaks around the globe on XML and content
management. Dr. Hale serves on standards bodies for W3C, OASIS, IETF,
and IEEE and heads the Interwoven Developer Network
(http://devnet.interwoven.com). While on the research faculty at
Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Hale served on more than ten
application framework steering committees and has taught graduate and
short courses on the subject.
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Brian Loesgen
Founding Director & VP
INETA 
Brian Loesgen is a San Diego-based independent consultant, with
extensive experience in advanced enterprise and mobile solutions.
Brian utilizes his expertise to translate new, leading-edge
technologies into real-world value. He is a co-author of the
"Professional XML", "Professional ASP/XML", "Professional Windows
DNA", “Professional ASP.NET Web Services” and “Professional VB.NET Web
Services” books from Wrox. In addition, Brian has written technical
white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others. Brian is a frequent
speaker at major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a
co-founder of, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the
International .NET Association (ineta.org). He co-leads the San Diego
.NET user group, and leads the San Diego Software Industry Council Web
Services SIG.

Loesgen is principal software engineer for Stellcom, a San Diego-based
wireless-integration engineering firm. www.stellcom.com
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Ron Schmelzer
Founder and senior analyst of ZapThink, Ron Schmelzer is a
well-renowned expert in the field of XML and XML-based standards and
initiatives. Ron has been featured and written for periodicals, and
has spoken at numerous industry conferences including XML One, Comdex,
and Internet World on the topic of XML. Prior to ZapThink, Schmelzer
was a founder and “ePostle of Partners for ChannelWave”, where he was
responsible for identifying the needs of channel partners and making
sure all partners receive the full benefit of partner relationship
management systems. Prior to co-founding ChannelWave, Schmelzer worked
on advanced Internet applications for U.S. Robotics and was a founding
partner of Dynamic Data Services, a data-processing company.
Schmelzer, who has was named "Geek of the Week" in Internet Magazine
and was listed among Boston Magazine's Internet Top 40.
http://www.zapthink.com/
ZapThink LLC
11 Willow Street
Suite 200
Waltham, MA 02453
Phone: 781-207-0203
Fax: 786-524-3186
Our United Kingdom fax number is: +44-870-135-5156
info@zapthink.com
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Liora  Alschuler
The Word Electric, Route 5 & Sanborn Road, POB 177, East Thetford
Vermont 05043 (USA)
Tel: Tel. : 802/785-2623  Email: : Liora@The-Word-Electric.com

Liora Alschuler is a writer, consultant, and trainer in SGML and
technical publishing and is the author ofABCD... SGML: A User's Guide
to Structured Information , International Thomson Computer Press,
1995. She teaches an introductory course on SGML for the University of
Wisconsin, Engineering Professional Development program, for
Solutions, Inc., and for private clients. She writes and consults on
the integration of SGML-based publishing and information management
within heterogeneous environments.
 
She has spoken on hypertext and SGML at local, regional, and national
conferences and she produced a radio series on hypertext and computer
documentation for the award-winningPersonal Computer Show on WBAI, New
York. Her articles have appeared inComputerWorld andPublish! and she
is a frequent contributor to Seybold publications.
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Search strategies: XML, MISMO, HL7, OFX, IFX   Each of these in
combination with banking, finance, healthcare, government and then
with "expert"
I followed links from pages these searches yielded.
For many of the listees, I ran a search on both their name and on
thier company's name and on the two names together.
In addition, I ran a search on those same terms at Amazon.com 


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Request for Answer Clarification by jack12345-ga on 24 Jan 2003 06:17 PST
Thank you,

Unfortunately, I should have requested people who were not part of
software companies.  We are looking for independant consultants.  An
representative example would be David Platt in the insurance/ACORD
industry.

Would it be possible to refine the search in this way?

Clarification of Answer by nellie_bly-ga on 24 Jan 2003 09:19 PST
Greetings Jack-

It is unfortunate that your original question did not include the
specifications you are now setting forth, particularly your evident
desire for experts in the insurance industry. I see now that you have
posted a new question to address those criteria, and I'm certain a
researcher will be able to provide a good list which meets those
specifications.

Nonetheless, let me point out that nearly half of the persons listed
in my answer to this question are not employees of software companies
but are affiliated with universities, government agencies or are
independent consultants, and, indeed, several of those affiliated with
software companies are the principals of those companies making them
essentially consultants with associates.

Changing the search criteria to "consultant" would simply pare the
current list.

Nellie Bly
Google Answers Researcher
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