David B. Orchard, B.A.Sc.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
orchard at pacificspirit dot com
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Career Interests

I am interested in leading the development of social networking and/or publish and subscribe features and standards. I'm keen to perform primarily architecture and development roles. The technologies around social graph portability, data portability, single sign-on, distributed authorization, metadata description and discovery, publish and subscribe, versioning, and distributed naming/identification are just some of the technical areas that I find fascinating.

Career Progression

I have held a variety of challenging technical leadership positions in web standards and the web application development field. I was employed at BEA Systems from 2001 until 2008 as Senior Technical Director(equivalent to VP), where I served as Web and Web Services standards lead. I led BEA's standards team growth from myself to 10 people by the time of the acquisition by Oracle.   I am a contributor and designer of web marketing including facebook applications for 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 was responsible for the creation and evangelism of xml technologies, such as creating ITML Provisioning. I was the first hire for IBM's Pacific Development Centre, now an IBM Global Services lab, and I was the lead architect and an integral part of growing 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 am an experienced public speaker and am published in numerous formats ranging from books and magazines to paid web columns.

Employment History

Senior Technical Director
BEA Systems Inc, Aug 2001 to May 2008

Working as the senior technical director in the CTO office, I was the Web standards lead for BEA Systems. Responsible for defining BEA’s Web and Web services vision and standards with partners, customers and strategic standards organizations like the W3C. The major success is the prominence of BEA in all the Web Services standards in all aspects, particularly technical and market perception and compared to much larger competitors. Leadership roles include:

I have focused on key horizontal architecture areas, particularly versioning. 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.

XML Architect
Jamcracker, May 2000 to Aug 2001

I led the use of web services and XML for Jamcracker, the first ASP aggregator. I had responsibility for defining and evangelizing standards. In particular, creating standards for Provisioning, Billing, and Single Sign-on. I was the Jamcracker standards representative for:

I also served as Lead Architect for the next generation of the Jamcracker platform.

Lead Technical Architect
IBM Pacific Development Centre, May 1996 to May 2000

I was the lead e-business architect at IBM's Pacific Development Centre in Vancouver. The PDC is a Network application research and development centre for the areas of e-business, government, banking, higher education, travel and telecommunications. I have held a variety of positions at the lab:

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:

Professional History

Standards
World-Wide Web consortium (W3C) - April 1999 to present

I continue to serve on the W3C TAG where I am working on Versioning, PasswordsInTheClear, URNsRegistries(aka XRIs) and tagSoup findings and outreach. I continue to monitor the HTML 5 and Web applications format Working Group.  I was the BEA primary representative to the W3C, which has included the TAG, and every WS-* working group.

Private Partnerships - Aug 2001 to present

I am an author of a variety of WS-* specifications not in the standards process. 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

Series Editor
Cambridge University
Press and SIGS Book series: Breakthroughs in Application Development, April 1999 to 2003

I review all book submissions, approving and generating changes to outlines and books, and approving all books for publication

Public Speaker
XTech (2000, 2008), Balisage 2008, XML DevCon, XML 2004, 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 versioning, 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/Courses/.

Writer
XML.com, Byte, Object Magazine, Component Strategies, McGraw-Hill, JavaWorld; March 97 to present

I have written articles on a variety of topics, such as Versioning, XML, EJBs, 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/Authoring/

Internet Technology Educator
Software Productivity Centre, MacDonald Dettwiler, UBC, Langara
Community College; Feb 1996 to present

I have taught many different Internet technology courses such as 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/Courses/

Education

B.A.Sc. in Electrical (Computer) Engineering, April 1990 at the University of British Columbia

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Hobbies & Activities