Web and Web standards guy, investor, advisor
Vancouver, Canada Area
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- Elected TAG member at W3C
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- Senior Technical Director at BEA System
- Director, CTO office at BEA Systems
- Lead Architect, Standards Officer at Jamcracker
- Architect at IBM Global Services
- Software Engineer at MacDonald Dettwiler
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David Orchard’s Summary
I'm interested in working on advanced Web technologies such as OAuth, OpenSocial, XMPP, Location based services. I've been an architect and standards person on REST and Web services for many years. I am an angel investor and a technical advisor.
David Orchard’s Specialties:
Web standards, W3C, OASIS, Web services, various programming languages.
David Orchard’s Experience
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Elected TAG member
W3C
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2001 — Present (7 years 10 months)
3 times elected to W3C TAG. I have edited the versioning, passwords in the clear, and urns and registries findings, as well as being active in many other findings.
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Senior Technical Director
BEA System
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 1 month)
The W3C and Web standardization lead for BEA Systems, helping coordinate all BEA's Web and Web services standardization. Elected 3 times to the W3C TAG and editor of all or parts of WS-Policy, WSDL 2.0, SOAP 1.2, WS-Addressing, XLink, XInclude and various TAG findings. Actively involved in development of pre-standards activities WS-MetadataExchange, WS-Eventing, WS-Transfer, WS-Discovery.
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Director, CTO office
BEA Systems
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — May 2006 (4 years 10 months)
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Lead Architect, Standards Officer
Jamcracker
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 5 months)
I was Lead Architect, then Standards officer for Jamcracker. Jamcracker built the first enterprise "mashup" by aggregating a variety of services into a seamless and cohesive application, from single sign-on to provisioning to billing.
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Architect
IBM Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1996 — May 2000 (4 years 2 months)
I was senior architect for the IBM Pacific Development centre. Starting as the first hire, I helped it grow to 300 employees. I led the architecture on a variety of Global Services projects in the education, travel, and infrastructure areas. Most notably was a web front end for student registration using XML over HTTP and PeopleSoft student admin in 1998.
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Software Engineer
MacDonald Dettwiler
(Computer Software industry)
1992 — 1996 (4 years)
