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. 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 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.
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. His pioneering work on the use of XML templates for automated information processing included developing GoXML templates for a variety of industry applications. 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. David has continued this work with the development of the OASIS CAM specification that he chairs.
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.
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.
David is also very familiar with
working in a research environment having worked as a project manager for three
years for LNK Corporation in
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, Transform and Registry for XMLGlobal and now VisualScript XML for Smartdraw.com.
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 implementer 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
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
David is an acknowledged authority
in XML and EDI, Knowledge and Expert Systems, Client and Server, 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
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.
- 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,
- Speaker on ebXML and eGov, Canadian government
conference,
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
- Keynote speaker XML World Conference,
- Keynote speaker XML'98
- Lead presenter to JECPO, ECDay’99, XML Panel, (June 1999)
- Co-chair eBusiness track, for the GCA XML’99 conference.
Selection of previous consulting
engagements includes the following.
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
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,
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
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,
Nynex WorldTrade,
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:
- B.Sc. in Physics with Computing from
AFFILIATIONS / AWARDS:
§ Member of the American Computer Machinery (ACM) and British Computer Society (BCS)
§ Droege International Internet Developer Competition, 4th 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,
- 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