Alex Brown

Alex Brown

Founder & Director, Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Current
  • Technical Director at Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd
Past
Education
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Bristol
Connections
163 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

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 1997Present (12 years 10 months)

    Consultancy, coding, business planning and administration, sales

  • Software Engineer

    Mediamation Ltd

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

    September 1994September 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 1993July 1995 (1 year 11 months)


Alex Brown’s Education

  • University of Bristol

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

  • University of Bristol

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


Additional Information

Alex Brown’s Interests:

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

Alex Brown’s Groups:

● Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG1
● Editor, ISO/IEC 19757-5 (Extensible Datatypes)
● British Library Joint JCLD/LDAP E-Journals Technical Panel

  •    Online Publishers Network
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    UK Document Excellence Group
  •    XML Prague
  •    ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
  •    XProc

Alex Brown’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

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

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