Board member and officer of the IDEAlliance
An industry consortium that supports XML and publishing industry conference, certifications, and training. Fellow board members include executives from Time, Inc., Microsoft, IBM, Wolters-Kluwer, R.R. Donnelly, and Conde Nast.
OASIS
Member of several strategic technical committees and subcommittees of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) XML industry consortiums.
DocBook Technical Committee
Chartered to develop and maintain the DocBook family of specifications and to continue to support its ever growing user base. Serves as chair on DocBook for Commercial Publishing subcommittee.
DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)
Chartered to define and maintain the Darwin Information Typing Architecture and to promote the use of the architecture for creating standard information types and domain-specific markup vocabularies.
DITA for Enterprise Business Documents technical subcommittee - advancing a document creation and management specification that builds content reuse into the authoring process.
DITA for Learning and Training Content technical subcommittee - promoting best practices for applying standard DITA approaches to learning content (serve as secretary).
OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee
Chartered to standardize Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable information sharing across content management repositories from different vendors
