Alex Brown

Current

• Technical Director at Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd

Past

• Software Engineer at Mediamation Ltd
• Honorary Lecturer at The University of St Andrews

Education

• University of Bristol
• University of Bristol

Connections

114 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Griffin Brown
• Personal blog
• XMLProbe

Alex Brown’s Summary

An industry-networked entrepeneurial technologist, with strong background in document processing (particularly with XML-based technologies), and experience of IT standards formation.

I want to develop useful software to make the world a more civilised place, and preferably have some fun and make some money into the bargain!

Alex Brown’s Specialties:

XML, software and standards development, information processing workflows

Alex Brown’s Experience

• Technical Director

  Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1997 — Present (11 years 9 months)

  Consultancy, coding, business planning and administration, sales

• Software Engineer

  Mediamation Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1994 — September 1997 (3 years 1 month)

  Porting, maintaining, and developing on a Wintel version of a cross-platform multimedia application framework.

• Honorary Lecturer

  The University of St Andrews

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1993 — July 1995 (1 year 11 months)

Alex Brown’s Education

• University of Bristol

  Ph.D., English Literature (Shakespeare editions), October 1989 — February 1995

• University of Bristol

  B.A. Hons, English Literature, October 1986 — July 1989

Additional Information

Alex Brown’s Websites:

• Griffin Brown
• Personal blog
• XMLProbe

Alex Brown’s Interests:

● Software development ● Business development ● Text processing ● Publishing ● XML ● Cigars ● Food and cookery ● Wine ● Symphonies

Alex Brown’s Groups:

● ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34, WG1 (developing DSDL among other things)
● British Standards (BSI) committee for "document description and processing language" (IST/41)
● XML UK
● International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ)
● British Library Joint JCLD/LDAP E-Journals Technical Panel

•    Online Publishers Network

Alex Brown’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch