Norman Walsh
2901 Barton Skyway #3012, Austin, TX 78746
(512) 761-6676
ndw@nwalsh.com
https://nwalsh.com/
Employment
MarkLogic Corporation, 2008–present
Principal Engineer, 2017–present
  • Led engineering teams building significant applications; helped articulate architectural vision for engineering teams as a whole. Mentored other engineers. Assisted QA, support, and other departments in delivering customer value.

Lead Engineer, 2013–2017
  • Helped design and build application features for the product. Mentored other engineers. Represented MarkLogic on standards committees worldwide.

Principal Technologist, 2008–2013
  • Met with customers and potential customers to analyze requirements. Built proof-of-concept and production applications for customers.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2000–2008
XML Standards Architect
  • Represented Sun on international standards committees at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS):

  • Led development of JAXP 1.4, JSR 206: The Java™ API for XML Processing (JAXP). JAXP is the standard Java API for parsing and transforming XML.

  • Contributed to the maintenance and development of the reference implementation for JAXP, which became part of Java 6.

  • Developed prototype implementations of evolving web standards.

Arbortext, Inc., 1997–2000
Principal Software Engineer, 1999–2000
  • Participated in the design and implementation of next-generation XML editing and publishing software.

  • Instrumental in the development of Epic, Arbortext's end-to-end solution for managing product information.

Senior Application Analyst, 1997–1998
  • Project lead for large SGML and XML consulting engagements.

International Standards
Education
  • M.S. Computer Science; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 1994.

  • B.S. Computer and Information Science and Mathematics (double major); Iona College, New Rochelle, NY; attended on a full scholarship; 1989.

Awards
  • XML Cup, 2005. Awarded to innovators who have made significant contributions to the XML community.

Selected Publications
Books

DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide. Norman Walsh. O’Reilly Media. Sebastapol, CA, May 2010

Making TeX Work. Norman Walsh. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Sebastopol, CA, April 1994.

Specifications and Standards

XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Norman Walsh, Alex Milowski, and Henry Thompson, editors. World Wide Web Consortium, September 2007.

The DocBook Schema. Norman Walsh. OASIS, September 2007.

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. Norman Walsh and Ian Jacobs, editors. World Wide Web Consortium, December 2004.

RFC 3151: A URN Namespace for Public Identifiers. Norman Walsh, John Cowan, and Paul Grosso, editors. Internet Engineering Task Force, August 2001.

References

https://github.com/ndw/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/normanwalsh/, and available upon request.