Faculty Board 2011

The XML Sum­mer School Fac­ulty Board includes some of the biggest names in XML, who have designed the high qual­ity cur­riculum and invited a fant­astic array of experts to pre­pare and deliver classes.

The Board oper­ates under the stew­ard­ship of Course Dir­ector, Dr Lauren Wood. The full Board is made up of the fol­low­ing members:

• Dr Lauren Wood (Course Director)
• Prof. John Chelsom
• Bob DuCh­arme
• Priscilla Walms­ley
• Peter Flynn

Dr. Lauren Wood

Lauren Wood uses her skills in mak­ing pro­jects suc­cess­ful, spe­cial­iz­ing in XML-based pro­jects with dis­trib­uted teams. Her major cli­ent cur­rently is Lantana Con­sult­ing Group, a con­sult­ing com­pany work­ing in standards-based health­care. She has a long his­tory in work­ing with XML, and before that SGML, with exper­i­ence in XML pro­jects ran­ging from pub­lish­ing to sig­ni­fic­ant input into SoftQuad’s XMetaL XML editor. She chaired the US XML Con­fer­ence from 2001 to 2005, chaired the W3C DOM Work­ing Group from its incep­tion to the end of Level 2, and played an act­ive role in many other OASIS and W3C tech­nical committees.

Lauren also has exper­i­ence in set­tings where XML is used more under the cov­ers, such as chair­ing the Busi­ness Mar­ket­ing Expert Group for the Liberty Alli­ance, man­aging the loc­al­isa­tion and access­ib­il­ity fea­ture teams for SoftQuad’s HoT­MetaL HTML editor, and man­aging a pro­ject for Sun Microsys­tems that involved cloud com­put­ing, client-side soft­ware, and hard­ware design.

Lauren has been a Fac­ulty mem­ber of the Sum­mer School since the begin­ning. In her spare time she knits, ren­ov­ates the house, and occa­sion­ally blogs on issues tech­nical and otherwise.

Lauren chairs the Prac­tical Web Applic­a­tions course and the Trends and Tran­si­ents course.

Pro­fessor John Chelsom

John Chel­som is a part­ner at Eleven Inform­at­ics LLP, a con­sultancy firm spe­cial­ising in the applic­a­tion of open stand­ards and open source soft­ware, using Agile devel­op­ment tech­niques. He is also a Vis­it­ing Pro­fessor at the City Uni­ver­sity — Centre for Health Inform­at­ics.

Pre­vi­ously he was founder and Man­aging Dir­ector of CSW Group, which was involved in the design and devel­op­ment of major XML sys­tems for Ford Motor Co, Xerox Corp, the BBC and John­son & John­son. CSW also sup­plied the under­ly­ing soft­ware for prob­ably the world’s largest XML trans­ac­tion pro­cessing data­base deliv­er­ing patient record inform­a­tion for the National Health Ser­vice in Eng­land. John star­ted the XML Sum­mer School in 2000 with col­leagues from CSW.

John chairs the Hands-On Intro­duc­tion to XML course.

Bob DuCh­arme

Bob DuCh­arme is a solu­tions archi­tect at TopQuad­rant, a com­pany that provides soft­ware for mod­el­ing, devel­op­ing and deploy­ing semantic web applic­a­tions on Win­dows, the Mac and Linux.

In the XML.com news­let­ter, editor Kend­all Clark once wrote “Does any­one write tech prose as clear as Bob?” Bob is the author of Man­ning Pub­lic­a­tions’ “XSLT Quickly,” Pren­tice Hall’s “XML: The Annot­ated Spe­cific­a­tion” and “SGML CD,” and McGraw Hill’s “Oper­at­ing Sys­tems Hand­book.” He’s writ­ten over sev­enty pieces for XML.com and has con­trib­uted to Dr. Dobb’s Journal, IBM developer­Works, DevX, perl.com, XML Magazine, XML Journal, XML Developer, O’Reilly Books’ “XML Hacks,” and Pren­tice Hall’s “XML Hand­book.” Bob received his BA in Reli­gion from Columbia Uni­ver­sity and his Mas­ters in Com­puter Sci­ence from New York Uni­ver­sity. He lives in Char­lottes­ville, Virginia.

Bob chairs the Semantic Tech­no­lo­gies course.

Peter Flynn

Peter Flynn has over 30 years exper­i­ence in IT and inform­a­tion man­age­ment. He cur­rently man­ages the elec­tronic pub­lish­ing unit at Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Cork, and also has his own text man­age­ment con­sultancy, Sil­maril Con­sult­ants, where he works mainly with indus­trial pro­duc­tion and research systems.

Peter was a mem­ber of the W3C’s XML Spe­cial Interest Group and a mem­ber of the IETF’s Work­ing Group on HTML. He is main­tainer of the XML FAQ and author of The World-Wide Web Hand­book (ITCP, 1995) and Under­stand­ing SGML and XML Tools (Kluwer, 1998). He has recently been research­ing the usab­il­ity of edit­ors for struc­tured documents.

In what’s left of his time he likes to cook, surf, read, and listen to early music.

Peter chairs the Pub­lish­ing course.

Priscilla Walms­ley

Priscilla Walms­ley is a senior con­sult­ant and man­aging dir­ector at Datypic, spe­cial­iz­ing in XML archi­tec­ture and imple­ment­a­tion. She is an expert in XML core tech­no­lo­gies (XQuery, XSLT, XML Schema), con­tent man­age­ment and service-oriented architectures.

Priscilla was a mem­ber of the W3C XML Schema Work­ing Group from 1999 to 2004, where she served as an Invited Expert. She is the author of Defin­it­ive XML Schema (Pren­tice Hall PTR, 2001), and XQuery (O’Reilly Media, 2007). In addi­tion, she co-authored Web Ser­vice Con­tract Design and Ver­sion­ing for SOA (Pren­tice Hall 2008).

Priscilla chairs the XSLT and XQuery course.