DAVID RR WEBBER

SUMMARY

As a consultant David contributes to the development of next generation standards for eBusiness and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and provides critical knowledge to industry initiatives and vendor partners on configuring and delivering their solutions. Most recently his work on SOA projects was awarded “Best Organization SOA Application” in October 2006 by the Federal CIO Council SOA CoP at their conference at MITRE. His knowledge of business process technologies and emerging products and services is extensive and derived from his deep involvement with the eBusiness domain over the past ten years. This includes in-depth knowledge of the internals of XML processing with XML schema, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, SOAP, and Web Services based on his involvement with both the W3C and OASIS standards processes over the past five years. He is also the chief architect of the ground breaking Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) specification within OASIS that is revolutionizing the delivery of context driven information exchanges.

David is currently leading work on ebXML implementation in the government healthcare administration sector providing technical direction and lead engineering management. This technical work is providing a focal point for the development of the next level of ebXML functionality that integrates messaging, registry, partner profiles and rules templates together into a holistic SOA solution. This allows communities to quickly begin collaborating through using the shared coordination resources and central implementation support services. This work in the healthcare sector is building on David’s extended healthcare sector experience from his previous work consulting with CTG Healthcare services and HL7 and EDI backgrounds. He co-authored a New Riders book on ebXML for executives and managers in 2001 (http://ebxmlbook.com ).

Previously for three years David worked as the leading technology architect for XML Global Technologies Inc, a startup focusing on XML-enabled eBusiness middleware components, including development of his patented EDI and XML processing system. He was lead architect on the development of the GoXML™ product that incorporated these patents and that was subsequently licensed to iWaysoftware, Xenos and Seagull. GoXML is used by BEA and IBM as part of their iWay adaptors suite. This work included extensive interaction with the leading marketplace vendors and has given him a unique perspective of not only the competitive landscape for middleware solutions today but also an enviable knowledge network within the industry.

Prior to his XML work, David worked as a consultant delivering services to a wide array of industries solving tough technical challenges against tight timelines by working hands-on developing software components and systems. Customers included Gannett Group, The Smithsonian, MCI, US Customs, Italia Shipping and 3COM Healthcare.

David is also very familiar with working in a research environment having worked as a project manager for three years for LNK Corporation in Maryland, a research company run by Professor Laveen Kanal, then senior faculty member at the University of Maryland Computer Science Department. LNK provided support to NASA, DOD and Federal Agency customers.

His technical experience includes working as Technical Manager for a major European distributor of computer hardware components, Ideal Hardware of London, England. This work included low-level device management with assembler and the need to understand component level integration of PC systems.

SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Known as an innovator David has been the genesis of a wide range of world leading solutions including airport gate scheduling for the IAA, buy-repair logistics for the US Army, address synchronization for CTG, SeeMail client for MCIMail, iBolt for Magic Software, ShroudIt! for LNK, GoXML Transform and Registry for XMLGlobal, VisualScript XML for Smartdraw.com, Trusted Open Voting with HP.com and most recently the jCAM open source toolset.

David holds two US Patents on advanced information transformation and processing technologies and is an acknowledged authority on XML and Registry technologies. David has also co-authored a book for New Riders Press entitled ebXML: The New Global Standard for doing business on the Internet, designed to give managers, executives and business implementers a required understanding of the integration aspects and requirements for doing eBusiness with XML and specifically ebXML.

David has over twenty-five years experience in developing application solutions in a wide variety of industries and government applications. He was project manager for a major $3.5M U.S. Army Logistics project based out of Ft. Hood, Texas for the 3^rd Corp buy/repair recommendation system that interfaced across core Army legacy systems to achieve sophisticated calculations of optimal logistics decisions.

He has also worked on U.S. Navy projects including Intelligent Tutoring applications and development of strategies for the ‘Smart Ship’ program. He served as project support manager for the USDA web site and services, one of the top ten most accessed government web sites. He also developed EDI program components for the original US Customs EDI adoption program and then worked with the US Government EPA on their industry EDI compliance program. David has also consulted to DoD DFAS on their XML adoption strategies.

Since co-founding the XML/edi Group, David has spent the past six years focusing on evangelizing the adoption of XML eBusiness integration technologies, fostering the development of and working on key XML standards specifications, and developing a comprehensive set of application tools to deliver on the promise of XML technology. His work includes involvement with the W3C, UN/CEFACT ebXML initiative, OASIS XML standards, the Open Applications Group and numerous industry associations including healthcare, finance, power utility, grocery and automotive industries.

David has also presented and lectured worldwide on XML and ebXML at numerous industry and government conferences, panels and seminars on various aspects of eBusiness adoption and XML technologies. David has also served as track chair for several XML conferences, including the recent DAMA conference in January 2003 in Santa Fe, NM. David has also been invited to assist and present to the Canadian Government on their EDAT and Secure Channel initiatives with their PWGSC and EDAT teams. David has also published extensively in a variety of industry journals and magazines on implementing eBusiness solutions with ebXML. Most recently in SOA Web services Journal an article on BPEL and B2B co-authored with Oracle Corporation.

David is an acknowledged authority in SOA, XML and B2B, Knowledge and Expert Systems, Internet Technology, DSDM, RADD, Database, and Web Based software engineering. In 1994 he founded an Internet Group that he moderated with close to 1,000 members worldwide who are focused on using advanced Enterprise and Web development tools. His industry experience includes: B2B, EDI, Government Regulatory, Military Logistics, Inventory/Stock Control, Billing, Image Processing, Drug Inventory, Multimedia, Patient Services, Healthcare, Facilities Management, Decision Support, Personnel Management, Resource Scheduling, Airport Management, Telephone Billing, Financial Services and Accounting.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

VP Business Development and Director for XMLGlobal.com and lead technology architect for their transformation and registry products. Produced over $4M in revenue and funding.
Lead the development of the OASIS CAM specification for Content Assembly Mechanisms in eBusiness processing systems.
Co-developed the OASIS BCM specifications for Business-Centric Methodology for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems.
Presenter at Federal CIO Council SOA CoP and received award for “Best Organization SOA Application”, October, 2006.
Consulting to DoD Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) to develop methodology specific to XML and provide tactical guidance and education.
Coauthor "ebXML: The New Global Standard" New Riders Press.
Chair of the UN/CEFACT BRIM ebXML working group for Registry content assembly services and content syntax storage specifications.
Co-author in ebXML Requirements definition, ebXML Architecture Specification, ebXML Registry specifications and chair of ebXML Core Components realization team.
Participant W3C Schema workgroup and Chair of the OASIS CAM schema technical committee.
Founding member of the XML/edi Group - an ad hoc group that supports the use of XML/edi technology and tools. Led the design of the XML/edi framework and co-author of "Introducing XML/edi... the E-business framework" and "Guidelines for using XML for Electronic Data Interchange".
Speaker and panelist on ebXML and Registry at the Homeland Security conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, January, 2002.
Speaker on ebXML and eGov, Canadian government conference, Ottawa,
April, 2002.
Article for XML Journal on Catalogue facilitation using XML – CatXML (January, 2001).
Article for European Community publication comparing UDDI, XML/EDI and ebXML (November, 2000).
Article for European Community publication detailing “Bizcodes” for Registry (November, 1999).
Article for Electronic Markets on XML/EDI Frameworks (May, 1998)
Co-chair of the Government eBusiness Focus track, for the GCA XML2000 conference.
Presented one-day seminars on XML topics for the ACM in 1998 and 1999 at the University of Maryland, College Park, and also George Washington University.
Keynote speaker XML World Conference, Ottawa, (September, 1999).
Keynote speaker XML'98 Tokyo, Japan. (December 1998)
Lead presenter to JECPO, ECDay’99, XML Panel, (June 1999)
Co-chair eBusiness track, for the GCA XML’99 conference.

SELECTION OF WORK EXPERIENCE

Selection of previous consulting engagements includes the following.

Nortel Government Services: Consultant with HHS/NIH for two years implementing and supporting the eReceipts submission Grants Applications project for converting over 20,000,000 annual paper pages to electronic digital submissions using XML and PDF.

Open Voting Solutions: Working with OASIS Election Markup Language (EML) committee, NIST and European Community members on developing trusted processing mechanisms and XML for secure public open elections including open source code implementations.

Norwegian Government: Invited presenter at the EU workshop on XML Semantic Integration and Registries, that brought together the IT architects for all 25 EU countries for one week in Bronnoysund, Norway.

Smartdraw.com: Lead architect and consultant for the development of the VisualScript XML toolset and product. This revolutionary product allows non-technical users to exploit visual models to create complex process interactions using XML based systems. Syntax supported includes XSLT, XForms, xhtml, XSD schema, SMIL, BPEL, WSDL, ebXML and a selection of industry business transaction formats.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Project lead in prototyping registry interaction models for OASIS and ebXML Registry implementation services.

Pendleton Hospital Group: lead integrator for migration of three payroll accounting systems during a two-hospital consolidation.

Cincinnati City Hospital Group: Project Leader a pension tracking system for merger of four hospitals.

3M Corporation Healthcare: Mr. Webber provided the technical lead in implementing a patient master record consolidation product. Over 750,000 patient records were processed for the initial implementation. RAD development techniques were emphasized throughout the project.

U.S. Army Strategic Logistics Agency: Project Lead for a Decision Support System, a client/server based application for optimizing repair and maintenance facilities for an Army Corp group of three divisions. System provided a 400% improvement over existing systems performance.

US Department of Agriculture: Project Manager overseeing support for FAS Web site with 130,000 hits daily.

JECPO EMALL project: provide strategic XML consulting for EMALL in the area of supplier integration. Design a catalogue implementation (http://www.CatXML.org) that illustrates the techniques to be applied.

European Community research: design of XML/EDI components and interchange systems in collaboration with Tertium LCL, Brussels, for a European Community funded project for Taxation systems and regulated reporting.

Gannett Corporation. Redeployment of a corporation tracking mainframe application into a client/server configuration system. Two months were allocated to deploy a critical financial tracking module. It required input from 350 subsidiary companies across the USA.

Smithsonian Institute. Implemented a Boolean search capability and ad hoc querying capability for the Institutes Library of publications and photographic materials. Component included a query optimizer to select fastest search path for entered queries.

Dyncorp-Viar, Alexandria, VA. As an EDI coordinator and manager, Mr. Webber was responsible for the implementation of EDI pilot projects for the EPA, designing of EDI message sets, expediting of certification of EPA EDI messaging formats within X12. Duties also included integration of EDI messaging into EPA client/server systems designs.

Nynex WorldTrade, Landover, MD. Mr. Webber as an Analyst/Programmer and Team Leader provided consulting for MCI developing business support systems on their IBM mainframes and PC systems. He was a software developer and EDI coordinator for in-house systems development. This included EDI support for WorldTrade customers and interaction with U.S. Customs EDI manifesting group. He provided consulting for Sealand to implement pilot EDI export manifesting (produced a working rule based EDI interface in two months).

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:

B.Sc. in Physics with Computing from University of Kent and Canterbury, 1976.

AFFILIATIONS / AWARDS:

§ Award from the Federal CIO Council SOA CoP, October, 2006.

§ Member of OASIS standards committee work since 1999.

§ Member of the American Computer Machinery (ACM) and British Computer Society (BCS)

§ Droege International Internet Developer Competition, 4^th overall, 1997

§ Excellence in Client and Server Development with MAGIC Award, 1996

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERTISE:

Legacy tools - COBOL, PL/1, FORTRAN, RPG2, NATURAL, BASIC, Pascal.
Database tools – SQL, VSAM, ISAM, dBase, XML, XQuery.
Web tools – HTML, Perl, JavaScript, Java, XML, SMIL, XSLT, XForms, xhtml.
GUI tools – Prolog, C, Java, FoxPro, Delphi, Magic.
Assembly – Intel 8085, Motorola 68000, IBM ASM.
OS / Process – IBM JCL, AS/400, VAX, UNIX, NT, Windows.

PERSONAL WEBSITES:

David RR Webber: http://drrw.net

ebXML book site: http://ebxmlbook.com

EPRforum website: http://eprforum.org

ebXMLforum website: http://ebxmlforum.org

Photography websites: http://drrw.fotopic.net and http://drrw.smugmug.com

Family Background:

David lives in up county Montgomery County, Maryland with his wife Marjorie and their three teenage children. David’s outside interests include cycling, photography and coaching soccer and chess.