Introducing: G. Ken Holman

Nationality: Canada

Date of Birth: 30^th December 1957

Residence: Kars, Ontario CANADA (near the capital, Ottawa)

Languages spoken: English

(ref: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/bio/gkholman.htm for overview summary)

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers.

Mr. Holman is a co-editor of the Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0 specification, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, a former international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, the current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee, the founding and current chair of the OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, a technical lead on UBL code list and customization task groups, 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.

Career Experience:

(ref: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/bio/gkholman.htm for career outline)

1997-present: Chief Technology Officer, Crane Softwrights Ltd. Various publishing projects regarding XML and XSL technology. Various electronic commerce projects regarding UBL technology.

1984-1997: Chief Technology Officer, Microstar Software Ltd. Various communications projects regarding NAPLPS videotex technology. Various publishing projects regarding SGML and DSSSL technology.

1998-present: Volunteer standards committees participant and developer. Participation in ISO JTC 1 subcommittees SC2, SC18 and SC34, including five years as an International Secretariat Manager. Chairmanship of OASIS technical committees for XML Conformance, XSLT Conformance and Code List Representation. Chairmanship of OASIS UBL subcommittees for small business, human interface and adoption. Task lead on UBL code list validation and conformant customization.

Project Experience:

(ref: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/bio/gkholman.pdf for project descriptions)

Requirements Analysis determined structured document requirements related to established system architectures.

System Architecture Design

Designed system architectures for flow and manipulation of information to meet document markup and publishing requirements.

Stylesheet Development and Publishing Systems

Developed and deployed publishing systems based on markup technologies

Participated in and facilitated information analysis and document design.

Legacy Conversion

Developed conversion strategies to move information from legacy formats into document markup.

Database publishing

Developed and deployed a publishing environment for high-volume database content.

High-volume print publishing

Developed and deployed a number of different publishing environments for the production of millions of paper pages in each project for customized book distribution and personalized mailings.

Large-scale deployment of a stylesheet architecture

Designed and built an extensible stylesheet library deployed to dozens of US Intelligence organizations for analyst use.

Publishing system replacement

Designed and deployed a replacement publishing system for the entire publication library for a major software manufacturer.

Publications:

(ref: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training for publication details)

Paper books:

Definitive XSL-FO (ISBN 0-13-140374-5)

• Published 2003 by Prentice Hall

Chapters in other paper book compilations:

XML Family of Specifications (ISBN 0-201-70359-9)

• Published 2002 by Addison Wesley

• Published 2002 by Prentice Hall

Electronic books:

Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath
(13th ed. ISBN 978-1-894049-18-4)

• Published 2008 (and ongoing) by Crane Softwrights Ltd.

Practical Universal Business Language Deployment
(2nd ed. ISBN 978-1-894049-17-7)

• Published 2007 (and ongoing) by Crane Softwrights Ltd.

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