David B. Orchard, B.A.Sc.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
orchard at pacificspirit dot com
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I am interested in helping lead and participate in the development of social networking features and standards. I have primarily done standards work in the past 8 years but I’m keen to return to architecture and development roles. The technologies around social graph portability, data portability, single sign-on, metadata description and discovery, and publish and subscribe are just some of the areas that I find fascinating.
I have held a variety of challenging technical and leadership positions in web standards and the web application development field. I was employed at BEA Systems from 2001 until 2008, where I served as Web and Web Services standards lead. I am or have served on a large number of committees with leadership roles: 3 times elected to the W3C Technical Architecture Group chaired by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, editor W3C WS-Policy, editor W3C Web Services Description Language 2.0, editor SOAP 1.2, editor XML Schema 1.1 Guide to Versioning using new XSD 1.1 features, W3C WS-Addressing, OASIS WS-ReliableMessaging, W3C Advisory Committee. I also represented BEA on a variety of specifications with Microsoft and IBM: WS-Eventing, WS-MetadataExchange. I have also been focusing on key horizontal architecture areas. This has resulted in many detailed TAG, book co-authoring, xml.com and blog articles on building versionable languages and systems, combined with contributions to ensure that standards (such as XML Schema 1.1, WSDL 2.0, WS-Policy, Atom) allow users to build versionable systems. I am a part-time contributor of web marketing to Alligato Mobile, a startup focusing on low-cost cellular long-distance. Previously, I worked at Jamcracker, where I served as lead architect and standards architect and had responsibility for creation and evangelism of xml technologies, such as creating ITML Provisioning. I have created a W3C XML standard, Xinclude, and I previously served as co-editor of W3C XInclude and XLink. I was the first hire for IBM's Pacific Development Centre, now a Global Services lab, and I was an integral part of bringing the organization to over 300 employees. I was an evangelist and developer of key architectures and technologies after recognizing their significance to application development, such as discovering the Web in 1994, Java in 1995, and XML in 1997. I have spoken at a variety of conferences and written for many publications.
Senior Technical Director
BEA Systems Inc, Aug 2001 to May 2008
Working as the senior standards engineer in the CTO office, I was the Web
standards lead for BEA Systems. I had responsibility for defining Web and Web
services standards with partners and in the W3C. I worked on almost every SOAP
based standard for messaging, workflow, and SOAP itself. I was first elected to
the W3C Technical Advisory Group in November 2001, subsequently re-elected
twice and I was the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) rep. I was actively involved in
defining BEA’s web services vision.
XML Architect
Jamcracker, May 2000 to Aug 2001
I led the use of web services and XML within and without Jamcracker, the first ASP aggregator. I had responsibility for defining and evangelizing standards. In particular, created standards for Provisioning, Billing, and Single Sign-on in the ASP industry. These standards are SOAP and XML Schema derived. I was the Jamcracker standards rep for various ASP consortia and the Jamcracker W3C Advisory Committee (AC) rep. A key deliverable has been the championing of the notion of distributed sessions in SAML, and also championing and editing the SAML domain model. I was actively involved in defining Jamcracker's web services vision, culminating in being selected to present at the W3C's Web Services Workshop. For a few months, I served as Lead Architect for the next generation of the Jamcracker platform.
Lead Technical Architect
IBM
Pacific Development Centre, May 1996 to present
I was the lead e-business architect at IBM's Pacific Development Centre in
Software Engineer, Web Architect
MacDonald Dettwiler & Assoc.
September 1992 to April 1996
As a consultant with an internationally recognized application development and system integration firm focusing on satellite ground stations for data processing, I participated in a wide variety of projects:
Standards
World-Wide Web consortium (W3C) -
April 1999 to present
I was elected to the W3C TAG, co-chaired by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in 2001, and re-elected twice. The TAG is responsible for documenting the architecture of the web and helping foster the web’s growth . I was the BEA primary representative to the W3C, which has included the TAG, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, Web Services Architecture, Web Services Description, and XML Protocol committees. I was formerly a member of the XML Linking and XML Core Working Groups. I was a co-editor of the XLink Standard and creator of the XInclude proposal.
Private Partnerships – Aug 2001 to present
I am an author of the WS-Eventing, WS-MetadataExchange, and WS-Transfer specifications. I have been an author of the Web Services Choreography Interface specification.
OASIS SAML
I was an editor of the SAML core assertions and domain model.
Web/Internet consulting
Eloquent Systems, IQ Software, Westech Information Systems, April
1996 to present
I have provided consulting services to a variety of companies on development for their Intranet and Internet products, Web/Java development, application architectures, various technical areas, etc. I typically provide a one or two day consulting engagement to help companies come up to speed on breakthrough technologies, the potential applications in their company, and possible service or product architectures. Some examples:
I am the series editor for the Breakthroughs in Application Development (BAD) series. I review all book submissions, approving and generating changes to outlines and books, and approving all books for publication. I intend to establish the series as the premier series of books on advanced networked application development technologies. Areas of coverage include but are not limited to network application architecture, Internet computing, Java, XML and distributed objects.
Public Speaker
XML DevCon, XMLOne, SIGS Java, OOP and XMLOne Conferences in Austin,
Chicago, San Jose, Munich, London and NY; Internet World Spring/Summer; COMDEX
PacRim; Canadian
Information Processing Society; Software Productivity Centre;
MISTIC; April
1996 to present
I have presented keynote and tutorial presentations on a wide variety of topics, including the Why's of the XML family of Standards, Web Services, Type system conversion, Java State of the Art, Java and Distributed Objects, Distributed Objects, the latest in the Web, EJBs, Server Objects in Java, XML, and high-tech company success factors. Presentation history is available at http://www.pacificspirit.com/History.html.
Writer
Byte, Object Magazine, Component Strategies, McGraw-Hill, JavaWorld; March 97 to
present
I have written articles on a variety of topics, such as XML, EJBs, the new Java Sound synthesizer, Java Beans roadmap, Java success factors, Java transaction services, Java performance improvements, component and distributed object comparisons. I have been a contributing author to a Java Beans book. Writing history is available at http://www.pacificspirit.com/History.html.
Internet Technology Educator
Software Productivity Centre,
MacDonald Dettwiler, UBC, Langara Community College;
Feb 1996 to present
I have taught many different Internet technology courses. Current courses offered are: XML, Latest in the Web, Java, Java and Distributed Objects, Java and Database connectivity, Learning Java, Using Distributed Objects, Intelligent Agents, ActiveX, and Microsoft FrontPage. Sessions range from 3 to 9 hours, in either seminar or hands-on format. More information is available at http://www.pacificspirit.com/History.html
B.A.Sc. in Electrical
(Computer) Engineering, April 1990 at the University of British Columbia