Owner, CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc - Multimedia Promotions - XML Training and Consulting
Ottawa, Canada Area
Owner, CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc - Multimedia Promotions - XML Training and Consulting
Ottawa, Canada Area
- 25 years primarily within Bell Northern Research (now Nortel), from Member of Scientific Staff to Senior Manager in all aspects of Information Technology.
- over 13 years of experience in the field of General Markup Languages (SGML and XML) as an Advisory Consultant with Microstar Software and as President of CyberSpace Industries.
- Training and Consulting in XML and e-Learning.
- an emerging area for me is Multimedia Promotions and Education. This involves the production of promotional DVD's, Commercials, Educational DVD Series, and Documentaries.
My first DVD effort was selected by CTV as 1 of 4 from across Canada to win their "Wake up a Winner" contest for Perth Ontario. http://shop-heritage-perth.com/contest.html
Currently completing a 20 minute promotional DVD for the Perth Campus of Algonquin College.
Producing a 28hr+ lecture series Educational DVD for Crane Softwrights -"Practical Transformation using XSLT and XPath".
- Promotional activities involved with the development of a retail store in Downtown Heritage Perth (now closed due the impact of 9/11 on tourism). This involved the development of material to promote both the store and the Town of Perth. Key accomplishments include:
- development of a permanent promotional display in the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
- creation of promotional material for the store and Downtown Heritage Perth
- development of advertising copy for major Ottawa publications for both the Store and Downtown Heritage Perth.
- creation of video promotions for Downtown Heritage Perth
- development of key websites for the Town of Perth including:
- http://all-about-perth.com
- http://shop-heritage-perth.com
Paper accepted at the International Conference of Artificial Intelligence - part of Worldcomp'06 in Las Vegas - Summer 2006.
http://www.urbanmarket.com/csi2000/pub/Worldcomp06/Understanding%20Instruction%20Books%20and%20Programs.pdf
Multimedia Promotions (web sites, videos, commercials)
XML Training
XSLT Training
Custom XML/SGML on site training
General SGML/XML Consulting
(E-Learning industry)
January 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)
XSL Techniques is a 10-week online course that covers all aspects of writing or programming XSLT and XSL-FO templates. It is ideally suited for technical documentation specialists, web designers, web developers, and programmers.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 7 months)
Currently the instructor for on-line delivery of 10 week XSL course. Course covers XML, XPath, XSLT and XSL-FO.
Can also deliver classroom style training on-site to customers. Off the shelf and customized training is available. Courses include XML Roadmap and XSLT.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 1993 — Present (15 years 2 months)
Created in 1993, CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc. has provided SGML/XML training and consulting to both public and private companies in Canada.
http://www.urbanmarket.com/csi2000
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1993 — June 2003 (9 years 10 months)
As advisory consultant in the Consulting Division, completed multiple projects in government, private and public industries in the field of SGML Training and Consulting.
Developed first version of the Canadian CALS DTD.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 1965 — June 1993 (28 years 1 month)
During a quarter century at Nortel worked in many parts of the company including:
Northern Electric - Montreal - ESS #1
Northern Electric R&D Labs - SP1
Microsystems International - Silicon Microcircuits / Business Systems
Bell-Northern Research
Positions held ranged from member of Scientific Staff to senior manager.
BSc - Honours, Physics, September 1959 — June 1965
Since 1993 have worked in SGML/XML Training and Consulting.
Nanotech, Quantum Mechanics and IT - http://ato.smartcapital.ca/nanotech, Downtown Heritage Perth - http://shop-heritage-perth.com, Online storytelling - http://all-about-perth.com, Artificial Intelligence (AI) - given at Worldcomp06 in Las Vegas (June 2006) http://www.urbanmarket.com/csi2000/pub/Worldcomp06/Understanding%20Instruction%20Books%20and%20Programs.pdf , Universal Business Language (UBL) - article in Training World http://www.trainingworld.ca/tw1/twissue1_11.pdf
Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), FACEBOOK
Information Systems Professional (ISP) - Feb 1990