Kelvin Lawrence

Current

• CTO Emerging Internet Software Standards, Distinguished Engineer at IBM

Past

• CTO XML Technology, Distinguished Engineer at IBM
• Miscellaneous roles at IBM

Education

• University of Brighton

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My RSS feed
• IBM Blog

Kelvin Lawrence’s Summary

CTO, Emerging Internet Software Standards at IBM

IBM Distinguished Engineer

Chair of the Web Services Secure Exchange Technical Committee at OASIS

Chair of the Web Services Security Technical Committee at OASIS

Member of the IBM Academy of Technology & Technology Council

IBM Master Inventor (has 85 issued patents in various countries)

Frequent speaker at conferences on a wide range of topics

My Resume/CV/Biography can be found at http://www.kelvinlawrence.net

Kelvin Lawrence’s Specialties:

Computer operating systems design and implementation
Computer graphics subsystems
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
User interface development and design
XML and related technologies (XSLT, XML Schema etc.)
Web Standards and Architecture
Web Services
Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Java technology
Declarative language design
Emerging internet technology
Web Services security standards

My Resume/CV/Biography can be found at http://www.kelvinlawrence.net

Kelvin Lawrence’s Experience

• CTO Emerging Internet Software Standards, Distinguished Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

  I am focussed on a large number of differing initiatives related to open standards and emerging internet technology. You can always find my latest BIO and resume at http://www.kelvinlawrence.net

• CTO XML Technology, Distinguished Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1999 — August 2003 (4 years 1 month)

  I was responsible for driving the adoption of XML within the company and for driving much of our open standards participation within the industry and with other vendors and customers

• Miscellaneous roles

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1986 — July 1999 (13 years )

  I held various development roles focused on areas such as desktop operating systems, computer graphics subsystems, computer user interface development/design and Java technology. For various releases I led the teams that worked on the OS/2 Presentation Manager and the OS/2 Graphics Engine. I also was overall technical lead for various OS/2 releases. I led the team that worked on porting Java to OS/2.

Kelvin Lawrence’s Education

• University of Brighton

  B.Sc. (Honours) , Computer Studies , 1982 — 1986

  Activities and Societies:

  Cricket team, Football (soccer) team

Additional Information

Kelvin Lawrence’s Websites:

• My Website
• My RSS feed
• IBM Blog

Kelvin Lawrence’s Groups:

Colorado Software Summit
SHARE
Royal Aeronautical Society
W3C
OASIS

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Austin High-Tech
•    American Cancer Society Supporter
•    American Cancer Society Relay For Life
•    IBM co/ex workers independent group
•    XML and Related Technologies Network
•    LIVESTRONG
•    3D Visualisation and Graphics Programming
•    Royal Aeronautical Society
•    OASIS
•    Brighton Graduates Association
•    IBM SWG
•    Team OS/2 Alumni
•    W3C Members
•    IBM Academy of Technology
•    Colorado Software Summit
•    SHARE
•    Open Cloud Manifesto
•    Cloud Security Alliance

Kelvin Lawrence’s Honors:

IBM Corporate Award (twice)
IBM Master Inventor (85 issued patents)
IBM Academy & Technology Council member
Invited to IBM Corporate Technical Recognition Event - CTRE (3 times)
Listed in "50 most powerful people in networking" by Network World magazine (2002)
Conference Chair at XML One London (2001 and 2000)
Best session award, SHARE conference (multiple times)
Best session award, COMMON conference (multiple times)

Kelvin Lawrence’s Contact Settings

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