This page is a collection of short biographical sketches and a photograph that can be used in conferences to introduce Mr. Holman as a speaker. Also included are a couple of personal items based on feedback requesting a view of his cool car and bicycle.

1. Summary

The prose versions of the biographies are written in following sections, this is a summary of the main points of Mr. Holman's background:

• current member of OASIS technical committee for the Universal Business Language (UBL)
  • http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/
  • co-editor of the UBL 2.0 Specification
  • founding and current co-chairman of the UBL Human Interface Subcommittee (UBL-HISC)
  • co-chairman of the UBL Small Business Subcommittee (UBL-SBSC)
  • technical lead of the UBL Code List Task Group
  • technical lead of the UBL Customization Task Group
• founding and current chairman of the OASIS technical committee for Code List Representation
  • http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/codelist
  • editor of the context/value association specification
• founding chairman of OASIS technical committee for XML conformance (2 years)
• founding chairman of OASIS technical committee for XSLT/XPath conformance (2 years)
• founding chairman of UBL Forms Presentation Subcommittee (UBL-FPSC) and founding co-chairman of UBL Code List Subcommittee (CLSC)
  • http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/doc/etc/UBL-credits-1.0.html
  • http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/200302/0p70credits.jpg
• current chair of Canadian committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 (7 years 1995-2001, ongoing 2008-present)
• past secretary of the international committee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 (Document Description and Processing Languages - including SGML and DSDL) (5 years, 2002-2007)
• invited individual member to the Canadian Advisory Committee/Technical Committee on Information Technology (CAC/TCIT)
• invited expert to the W3C
• member of the original W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114#secC. (entry 31)
• established author of XML-related training material
• accomplished instructor-led trainer and speaker
• winner of the 2003 Activators' Choice Award for XSLT
• well-known and well-respected consultant and trainer in the XML/SGML development community
  • http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/xml-at-5.html
  • http://adjb.net/comments.php?y=07&m=12&entry=entry071209-141310

1.1. Past teaching experience

By August 2008 Mr. Holman had recorded 249 personal deliveries of Crane's training materials around the world:

• http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/pastsch.htm

Mr. Holman also developed and delivered training material for his previous employer.

1.2. Published training

Mr. Holman continues to publish the training material in both paper and electronic formats:

• paper publications purchased in your (hopefully) local bookstore:
  • Definitive XSLT and XPath
  • Definitive XSL-FO
• electronic PDF publications purchased from the Crane web site
  • Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath
  • Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO
  • Practical Universal Business Language Deployment
• interactive audio/visual publications purchased from the Crane web site
  • Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath Video

2. Conference Biographies

2.1. Brief Biography (210 words)

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers. Mr. Holman is a co-editor of the Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0 specification, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, a former international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, the current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee, the founding and current chair of the OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, a technical lead on UBL code list and customization task groups, the author of training videos and electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries.

2.2. Abbreviated Biography (107 words)

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a co-editor of the UBL 2.0 specification, member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the founding chair of the two OASIS XML and XSLT Conformance Technical Committees and current chair of the Code List Representation Technical Committee and UBL HISC and SBS subcommittees and two task groups, a former international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, the current chair of the Canadian committee to the ISO, the author of training videos and electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and a frequent conference speaker.

2.3. Shorter Biography (63 words)

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a co-editor of the UBL 2.0 specification and the current chair of the OASIS Code List committee and two UBL subcommittees, the former secretary of the ISO subcommittee for the SGML family of standards, the former chair and member of other international committees, a published author and an accomplished speaker.

2.4. Really Short Biography (3 words)

Another X-standard wonk.

(Ref: David Weinberger - JOHO - April 14, 2000 - http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-apr14-00.html#email)

3. Educational Background

Ken graduated from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) in 1981 with an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics degree in Computer Science (Co-operative Programme).

Ken's high school days from 1971 to 1976 were in Scarborough (east Toronto) at Woburn Collegiate Institute.

Any fellow alumni from either institution are welcome to contact Ken at gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com to reminisce about old times.

4. Photographs

4.1. Proceedings Photograph

Here is a photograph that may be used for conference proceedings (though I confess I have a bit more gray now than I had then).

4.2. Ken and his personal transportation choices

I was lucky to get a new 2001 PT Cruiser (in June'2000 after only an eight-week wait) that has been a lot of fun to drive around (when I'm home).

My wife bought me the custom Ontario license plate as a gift, and it has been fun to be interrupted by people in town to ask me about XML because they see the plate. This license plate was also accepted into the The Internet License Plate Gallery.

In June'2002 I purchased a recumbent bicycle after not riding a bicycle for about 20 years. It is so very comfortable that I am on it almost every day that I am not traveling.

5. Published interviews and articles by others

"Behind the revolution", Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 2005 by Peter Hum.

"Standard issue", Financial Director, May 25, 2006 by Antony Harrington