David Webber. ( Chair EPR-forum)
For the past year David has worked developing visual scripting technology for XML and specifically the new product 'VisualScript XML' by Smartdraw.com that was launched in July, 2003. For the prior three years David worked as VP Business Development and Director for XML Global Technologies Inc, a startup focusing on XML-enabled eBusiness middleware components. He is a cofounder of the XML/edi Group and an acknowledged authority on XML and eBusiness. David holds two US Patents on advanced information transformation and EDI processing technologies.
Known as a innovator David has been the genesis of a wide range of world leading solutions including airport gate scheduling for the IAA, buy-repair logistics for the US Army, address synchronization for CTG, SeeMail client for MCIMail, iBolt for Magic Software, ShroudIt! for LNK, Transform and Registry for XMLGlobal and now VisualScript XML for Smartdraw.
David is continuing to contribute to standards based software technology and is now chairing the OASIS Technical Committee developing Content Assembly Mechanism specifications as a vital component of next generation eBusiness infrastructure. David has also co-authored a book for New Riders Press entitled "ebXML: The New Global Standard for doing business on the Internet", designed to give managers, executives and business implementer a required understanding of the integration aspects and requirements for doing eBusiness with XML and specifically ebXML.
He lectures frequently in the , Europe, and Asia, has more than 20 years' experience implementing business systems in a broad spectrum of industries. David is currently involved in an advisory role with a wide variety of industry initiatives developing XML business schemas and business processing components.
He is also participating with several other OASIS working groups, including the Business-Centric Methodology team (BCM) where he is leading work on Choice Point technology, and the OASIS BPEL team on webservice business processes. David is also heavily involved in ebXML interoperability standards development. In addition, David has been focusing on facilitating the development and deployment of semantic registry systems by government and industry organizations.
He received his degree in Physics with Computing from the University of Kent, Canterbury, , in 1976.
