 Introducing: Timothy James McGrath
Nationality: Australian
Date of Birth: 5th May 1957
Residence: Fremantle, Western Australia
Languages spoken: English
Tim McGrath is the Managing Director and a Principal Consultant of Document Engineering Services, an international consortium of experts supporting universal business interoperability through the use of open standards.
Tim was an active participant in the development of the ISO 15000 (ebXML) standards. He led the Quality Review Team for the ebXML initiative between 2000 and 2002, was a member of the ebXML Steering Committee.
In 2005 he published (with Robert J. Glushko) "Document Engineering: Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services" from MIT Press. Document Engineering synthesizes complementary ideas from information and systems analysis, electronic publishing, business process analysis, and business informatics to ensure that the documents and processes make sense to the people and applications that need them. Some reader endorsements are attached to this document.
Since July 2005 Tim has been the vice-chair of the OASIS Universal Language Technical Committee (UBL). He is also the liaison between UBL and UN/CEFACT.
Over the past eighteen months, Tim has been promoting and teaching UBL and the Document Engineering approach throughout Europe and Asia.
Career Experience:
2007: UBL Liaison to UN/CEFACT. Project managed the alignment of UBL and various UN/CEFACT projects.
2007: Danish Ministry of Information Technology and Science.
Interoperability metamodel for UBL and CCTS implementation profiles.
2006: Standards Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton.
Expert Panelist for US Dept. of Transport Electronic Freight Management project.
2006: Danish Ministry of Information Technology and Science. Review architecture for Service Oriented Infrastructure.
2005-to date: OASIS Universal Business Language.
Vice-Chair.
2005: Danish Ministry of Finance. Strategic Requirements Study for UBL-based Electronic Catalogue.
2005 and 2006: University of Hong Kong. Visiting Lecturer in Document Engineering for MSc of Electronic Commerce and Internet Computing programme.
2002-2004: OASIS Universal Business Language. Chair of Library Content subcommittee.
2002: University of California (Berkeley), School of Information. Co-developer of Document Engineering course.
2002: University of Notre Dame Australia. Lecturer in e-Technology and Information Modeling
2001: University of Notre Dame Australia.
Lecturer in Electronic Commerce and Internet Studies.
2000-2001: ebXML (OASIS and UN/CEFACT Joint Initiative). Team Leader Quality Review. Member of Steering Committee, reporting to ebXML Executive.
1992-2001: TEDIS (Innovative Solutions for Electronic Trading). Founder and Technical Director.
Project Experience:
OASIS Universal Business Language (2002-present)
- Managed the developed of UBL 1.0 and UBL 2.0 library content.
OASIS UBL collaboration with UN/CEFACT (2006-present)
OASIS UBL Catalogue Requirements Project (2005)
- Lead team collaborating on catalogue requirements for the UBL 2.0 release.
- Based in Europe (6 European governments and the EC).
Electronic Business XML (ebXML) initiative (2000-2002)
- Led Quality Review committee
Tradegate Bureau Services Australia (1997-1999)
- RailHub BAPLIE, APERAK implementations
- ExportNet IFTMIN, IFTMCS, APERAK implementations
- Port Manifest IFCSUM, APERAK implementations
OASIS UBL collaboration with UN/CEFACT (2006-present)
Hazardous Goods IFTDGN, APERAK implementations
- Australian Customs Service (1996-1998)
- Sea Cargo Automation CUSCAR, CUSRES implementations
- EXIT 1 ENTRYD, ISSACK, DELETE, CONFIRM, REPLAC implementations
PacStream (1999-2000)
- Australia and New Zealand book wholesaling
Development and management of TEDIS Bureau Services (1997 -1999)
- design and development of Web-forms applications
- design and development of EDI and e-commerce gateway service
Publications:
Text Books:
- DOCUMENT ENGINEERING: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services. published August 2005 by MIT Press. Co-authored with Robert J. Glushko
- Professional ebXML Foundations.Published 2001 by Wrox Publications. Co-author
Articles:
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"Localizing the Universal Business Language," published in "Synthesis 2004."
- Singapore's ITSC Annual Publication, "Document Engineering for E-Business." Co-author (with Robert J. Glushko).
- 2002 - "ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
Patterns and re-use in Document Engineering." Co-author (with Robert J. Glushko.
- 2002 - "XML 2002," Baltimore USA.
Academic Qualifications:
Bachelor of Business (Information Processing) with distinction, from the Curtin University of Western Australia. (1984)
Professional Affiliations:
OASIS Universal Business Language (July 2005 – present)
Australian delegate to UN/CEFACT (Sept 2006 – present)
Industry Fellow at the Center for Document Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (October 2004 - present)
ebXML Quality Review group (May 2000 – May 2001).
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