Senior Solutions Architect at Really Strategies, Inc.
Austin, Texas Area
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- Senior Solutions Architect at Really Strategies, Inc.
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- Senior Consulting Engineer at Innodata Isogen
- Senior Software Architect at DataChannel/Netegrity
- Senior Consulting Engineer at Passage Systems
- Information Developer at IBM (Networking Systems, RTP, NC)
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- Texas Tech University
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Eliot Kimber’s Summary
20+ years experience using and developing standards for document representation and processing: SGML, XML, XSL-FO, XSLT, FOSI, etc.
10+ years experience as systems integration consultant focusing on technical documentation authoring, management, and support systems for industry and publishers.
Founding member of the XML Working Group, editor of the HyTime standard, member of the XSL-FO Working Group. Member of the DITA Technical Committee.
Eliot Kimber’s Specialties:
Specialist in standards-basesd hyperlinking, high-volume, standards-based composition of documents (XML, XSL-FO, XSLT, related technologies). Java sofware engineer. Expert in the localization of XML documents and deliverable forms generated from them.
Specialist in content management with a focus on version and link management over long document life cycles.
Eliot Kimber’s Experience
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Senior Consulting Engineer
Innodata Isogen
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; inod; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1996 — June 2007 (10 years 8 months)
Analyze client's requirements for standards-based publishing, authoring, and information management/content management systems; design systems that will satisfy those requirements within the defined budget, schedule, and constraints, and execute on implementation of the system using a team of software engineers.
Focus is on application of XML and related technologies to technical documentation, traditional publishing, legal publishing, and so on. Typical client is a fortune-500 manufacturer of consumer electronics.
Work with geographically distributed teams for analysis and implementation, including team members based in India and the Philipines. -
Senior Software Architect
DataChannel/Netegrity
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Designed and contributed to the implementation of an XML-aware content management solution framework (codenamed "Bonnell"). Practiced agile software development methodologies.
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Senior Consulting Engineer
Passage Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1994 — November 1996 (2 years 10 months)
Analyze client's requirements for standards-based publishing, authoring, and information management/content management systems; design systems that will satisfy those requirements within the defined budget, schedule, and constraints, and execute on implementation of the system using a team of software engineers.
Focus was on application of SGML and related technologies to technical documentation, traditional publishing, legal publishing, and so on. -
Information Developer
IBM (Networking Systems, RTP, NC)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ibm; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1984 — February 1994 (9 years 9 months)
Worked initially as a technical writer developing manuals for large networking system hardware (NTP, a software multiplexing switch) and eventually moved into a tools support role supporting 300+ writers with authoring and publishing support tools.
In the last two years of my stay at IBM, was core member of the team that developed IBM ID Doc, the SGML replacement for IBM's BookMaster system (which was used to author and publish about 80% of all of IBM's technical manuals). Also represented IBM on some early industry standards efforts for applying SGML to technical documentation. Worked with Dr. Charles Goldfarb on HyTime and related activities within and without IBM.
Eliot Kimber’s Education
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Texas Tech University
BA, English, Technical Writing focus, minor in computer science, 1980 — 1984
Developed and ran a PC-based writing resource room, worked as technical writer for the computer center.
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Eliot Kimber’s Interests:
standards, XML, XSL-FO, XSLT, Java, Python, page composition, information retrieval, content management, hypertext, linking, snowboarding, amateur musician, xinclude, software engineering, agile methods, aspect-oriented programming, publishing, DITA, DocBook
Eliot Kimber’s Groups:
W3C, XSL Working Group, XSL-FO subcommittee, OASIS, DITA Technical Committee
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The Content Wrangler Community
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