Lauren is a lot of things: An XML wonk, a standards-process veteran with a track record of success, a conference organizer, a blogger, and a WordPress hacker. For my money her biggest talent is project management: She’s technical, has a good bullshit filter, and is completely relentless (in the most polite and friendly way imaginable) in extracting units of useful progress from gaggles of geeks, even when they’re distributed across multiple continents. — Tim Bray
I've been a software developer, publishing consultant, conference chair, committee chair, project manager, and product manager. I organize people to get things done and make good stuff happen. No one solution suits all companies or all people; I follow a process that gets results.
I implement web sites in WordPress and Django, am Course Director for the XML Summer School, and mentor local startup companies.
Previously, I was a Senior Technical Program Manager for Sun Microsystems, focusing on projects in identity management. I managed a research project team distributed across four countries and nine timezones, working on a cloud-computing project including hardware, software, identity management and operating system components, with a strong emphasis on consumer-level usability, and chaired the Liberty Alliance's Business Marketing Expert Group as well as Sun's internal cross-department identity managementgroup.
Formerly I was an independent consultant at Textuality Services, Inc. specializing in XML applications. My consulting clients included IDEAlliance, for whom I chaired the XML conference series from 2001 until 2005, Reach (a department of the Government of Ireland), Thomson Corporation, and Justsystem. I was also an elected member of the W3C Advisory Board.
I worked for SoftQuad Software Ltd. (which is now part of Justsystems) as Director of Product Technology until April 2002. I managed the localisation work, the accessibility work, and visited customers and resellers to make sure our products fulfilled their requirements. I wrote demos, gave speeches at conferences, trained people on SoftQuad's XML products, and represented SoftQuad on many technical committees.
I chaired the W3C Document Object Model Working Group from its inception until November 2001, just after the DOM Level 2 was approved as a W3C Recommendation. The DOM is widely used in browsers and other XML applications, and is also an important component of Ajax.
My full resume (CV) is available, as are references, on request.
Some of the transcripts and slides from my talks are linked to from my talks page; others are linked to from postings on my blog. My musings about technology and general issues are on my main blog, while my postings about hobbies are on my crafting blog.
