Summary

SGML/XML specialist.

Key Skills

• XML: DTD, XSLT & CSS development.
• SGML: DTD and application development.
• Adobe ^® FrameMaker^®: Frame^® Developer's Kit, & SGML API development.
• Adobe Certified Expert for FrameMaker 7.0.

Recent Projects

• An XSLT stylesheet to import Arabic XML documents into Word^®.
• A filter to export a FrameMaker document as XML and then recreate the original FrameMaker document directly from the XML (similar functionality to MIF).
• XML DTD, and style sheets for electronic Aeronautical Information Publications.
• SGML DTD and application for describing a steam locomotive's history.

Employment

I am currently working for Mekon Ltd., as a Senior XML/SGML Consultant.

Previous employers include:

• Adobe Systems Europe Ltd. (Supporting developers of Adobe FrameMaker+SGML SGML & API applications);
• Program Products Ltd. (Technical support coordination);
• InterEurope Technical Services Ltd. (SGML & Adobe FrameMaker+SGML consultant);
• Datazone Ltd. (SGML, Adobe FrameMaker & Unix technical support);
• British Gas plc. (Development of programs to calculate gas properties)

Publications

Temperature Compensation of Surface Acoustic Waves on Berlinite.
Ph.D. thesis (Bedford College, London University, 1981).

Non Work-Related

I am married to Julia, with two children (and a cat). My interests include: family history; railways (researching and modelling); photography; music (listening and playing); and reading.

In my spare time I have created some other web sites:

• Searle.org.uk. Some information I have collected while researching my family's history.
• The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. An expanding site aiming to provide details of this historic railway to researchers and modellers.
• 5 & 9 Models: derives its name from the old Bingo call: "5 & 9, the Brighton Line". Run by enthusiast Chris Cox, he aims to provide simple kits for models of very early London Brighton and South Coast Railway prototypes.
• Ruxley Church, in West Ewell. This is the web site for two congregations of different traditions in the process of joining together as an Ecumenical Partnership (LEP).

Contact Details

I live in Epsom in Surrey in the UK. I can be contacted by email: .