Dan Connolly

Current

Lead Architect at Midwest Web Sense
Technical Staff at W3C
Research Scientist at MIT

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Past

Software Engineer at HAL Computer Systems
Software Engineer at Dazel
Software Engineer at Convex

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Education

University of Texas at Austin

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Industry

Computer Software

Dan Connolly’s Summary

Technical lead with a track record of getting new technologies deployed: picking a new idea, getting a critical mass of engineering talent, and getting them to work together and deliver something the community can use.

Edited HTML 2.0 with Tim Berners Lee, participated in the development of the URI and HTTP specs with Roy Fielding; chaired working group on HTML 4.0 with Dave Raggett and CSS 1 with Hakon Lie, helped Jon Bosak form the XML working group and deliver that spec, working with Eric Miller to finish RDF and OWL and start the next thing.

Helped Dazel ship their 1.0 product, helped build W3C for 10 years.

Dan Connolly’s Specialties:

Web Architecture (URIs, HTTP, HTML, XML, RDF, ...), Leading collaborative spec development, organization building, technical recruiting and evangelism, rapid software development

Dan Connolly’s Experience

Lead Architect

Midwest Web Sense

(Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Bringing 15+ years of experience in the design and standardization of the World Wide Web to the Midwest.
Technical Staff

W3C

(Non-Profit; Internet industry)

March 1995 — Present (14 years 9 months)

recruiting engineers from companies around the globe to work together on new Web technologies
Research Scientist

MIT

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

1995 — Present (14 years )
Software Engineer

HAL Computer Systems

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

February 1994 — February 1995 (1 year 1 month)

integrated HaL's online documentation system with the Web.

helped port a 1 million line C++ project from c-front based compilers to IBM's AIX compiler
Software Engineer

Dazel

(Computer Software industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year )

developed X-Windows front-end to enterprise print management system

led replacement of version control and build systems
Software Engineer

Convex

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1993 (3 years )

developed online hypertext documentation systems for supercomputer applications, e.g. for AVS, a scientific visualization system

provided tool support to documentation group