Sam Hunting

Current

President at Universal Pantograph

Past

Senior Data Architect at Lexis Nexis
Senior XML Architect at XML & SGML Community
President at Universal Pantograph

XML Developer at Calian, Inc.
XML Developer at Software Performance Systems
Content engineer at Texterity, Inc.
Editor at Boston Computer Society

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Education

Northeastern University - Graduate School of Business Administration

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Sam Hunting’s Summary

I've just released the latest version of a topics map module for Drupal, the well-known open-source CMS and community building system.

http://www.universalpantograph.com

Sam Hunting’s Specialties:

XML schema development and documentation; XML Topic Map development and documentation; Drupal development and documentation, site administration, site moderation.

Sam Hunting’s Experience

President

Universal Pantograph

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Universal Pantograph develops and maintains web sites using the well-known and and extremely powerful Drupal content management system. We have recently released a topic map module for Drupal.
Senior Data Architect

Lexis Nexis

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

January 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 3 months)

Developed and maintained XML DTDs for extremely complex legal data, for the United States, and internationally.
Senior XML Architect

XML & SGML Community

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years )
President

Universal Pantograph

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)

* Developed and documented an interview-driven method to specify schemas for trademark, business directory, and news developers.

* Facilitated data conversion of legal content to XML.

* Prototyped a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) front end to a Linda-style tuple space topic map engine for GivingSpace, a charity incubator.

* Co-edited and co-authored XML Topic Maps for the Web, published by Addison-Wesley.

* Assisted in drafting revisions for ISO 13250, the international standard for topic maps.
XML Developer

Calian, Inc.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1999 — August 2000 (11 months)

* For Lockheed-Martin, developed IETM (Interactive Electronic Technical Manual) prototype for F-117.

* Revised the ISO 8879 AECMA 1000D information architecture to conform with the XML 1.0 specification, using ISO 10744 architectures to provide quality assurance for the transform.

* Created topic map for the AECMA 1000D.

* Performed requirements analysis for, wrote specification for, and coded portions of the IETM front end in JavaScript.
XML Developer

Software Performance Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 1 month)

For United States Patent & Trademark Office: Developed and documented a modular information architecture to support rapid schema development that modeled the complex business process of patent prosecution, and established the legal record. Scripted editorial tools.
Content engineer

Texterity, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

November 1993 — October 1998 (5 years )

Developed SGML (ISO 8879) DTDs for Dow Jones, McGraw-Hill, Lippincott, and many other major publishers. Acquired expertise in complex legal and medical content.
Editor

Boston Computer Society

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 1993 (1 year )