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Duane Nickull
Duane Nickull
Uberity Systems
duane (at) uberity (dot) com
Duane Nickull
Senior Data Architect & Adobe LiveCycle ES Consultant
Uberity.com
Also see: Technoracle
Duane Nickull was the chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee and served on a number of Web Service related standards development efforts. He is currently an Executive of Uberity, an enterprise software developer and system integrator with a focus on delivering data to the third wave of the internet, mobile devices. As a former Senior Standards Strategist for Adobe Systems, Duane Nickull was responsible for managing Adobes participation in OASIS and UN/CEFACT, as well as ensuring that Adobes enterprise solutions support emerging XML standards. Previously Mr. Nickull co-founded Yellow Dragon Software Corporation, a privately held developer of XML messaging and metadata management software, recently acquired by Adobe.
Mr. Nickull served as a Vice Chair of the United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Commerce and Trade (UN/CEFACT) where he oversaw the United Nations Electronic Business strategy and architecture. He has served as the project team lead of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) eBusiness Architecture Group, a technical advisor to the UN/CEFACT OASIS Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) and a specially appointed liaison between the W3C, UN and OASIS standards consortiums. Additionally, Duane has served as the chair for the United Nations Electronic Business Working Group, a direct sub-group of CEFACT TMG and on the CEFACT TMG Steering Committee. He also has served as the Co-lead of the ebXML Technical Architecture group as well as co-editor of that specification starting in 1999.
Mr. Nickull has been called Mr. SOA by his peers during introductions to speak on the subject due to his overwhelming experience writing and contributing to the major Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). He is currently chairing the OASIS SOA Technical Committee which is in the process of establishing a global standard reference model for Service Oriented Architectures.
With over 6 years experience in standards bodies as a chair or co-chair, Mr. Nickull possesses a unique ability to delve into both technical and political standards issues while working cohesively within the groups to build consensus and a solution.
Mr. Nickull has written and contributed many technical articles and books on this subject and lectures globally about global electronic business around the world. He also participates in the W3C Web Services Architecture Group.
Prior to 2003 Duane worked for XML Global Technologies, a company he co-founded. He was a co-inventor of the first Context-sensitive XML Search Engine (www.goxml.com) and the first web based XML E-Commerce ASP. He is named on pending patents pertaining to XML indexing and retrieval covering 51 unique points. He also served as Technical Director for XSLT.com.
He lives in Vancouver, Canada and actively snowboards and mountain bikes.
Speaking Engagements (highlights only):
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Dec 2004 EIDX Industry conference on Semantic Harmonization Menlo Park, CA
Nov 2004 XML 2004 - Washington, DC
Oct 2004 UN/CEFACT Capacity Building Workshop Geneva, Switzerland
September 2004 XML Web Services Conference London, UK
May 2004 XML Europe 2004 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mar 2004 Canadian Governments Strategic IM e-Enabler plenary final.
Feb 2004 United States Department of Justice 2 day plenary session speaker
Feb 2004 Deutsches Bundesrepublik Ministerium (German Government) priv. meeting.
Feb 2004 United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MOD)
Jan 2004 US Integrated Justice Information Services, Plenary presentation
Dec 2003 United States Government Services Admin., 3 day XML Workshop.
June 2003 Ottawa, Canadian Government 3 day intensive - XML Registry / Repository
June 2003 JavaOne, Moscone Centre San Francisco Speaker on Metadata Registries
Feb 2003 Ottawa, Ont. Standards Council of Canada (SCC) workshop on XML
Feb 2003 Ottawa, Ont. Government of Canada FAP2 Full day
Jan 2003 New York, NY Linuxworld XML data integration
Nov 2002 Vancouver, Western Canadas eBusiness Day
June 2002 Portland, STAR Standards in Automotive Retail
May 2002 Barcelona, SP - XML Europe XML Tutorial 4 hours
May 2002 ebXML Day in Europe (OASIS) Co-keynote
Mar 2002 Belgium - CEN/ISSS eBes ebXML workshop Europe
Feb 2002 Copenhagen Danish Standards Association Annual Event (keynote)
Fall 2001 Copenhagen XML Scandinavia (keynote)
May 2001 - Berlin, XML Europe
May 2001 Vienna, ebXML Boot Camp
2001 Service Oriented Architectures and the future of ebXML and Web Services - Toyko
2000 Seoul, Korea KIEC Annual Conference (keynote)
25+ including several keynotes
Publications:
Professional ebXML Foundations Wrox Press
ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet
Recent White Papers:
Dec 2004 Defining an SOA Reference Model Jan 2003 - A Modeling Methodology to Harmonize Disparate Data Models (A White Paper to aid intelligence gathering capabilities for the Office of Homeland Security)
Volunteer Positions / Appointments:
2003 UN/CEFACT ATG Core Components naming conventions
2003 - CHAIR, OASIS eBusiness Service Oriented Architecture TC
2003 CHAIR, OASIS Registry sub group CC-Review committee
2003 - Sun Linux Expert Advisory Panel 1 of 15 internationally selected experts
2003 - OASIS eGovernment Technical Committee (Participant)
2003 - LegalXML Lawful Intercept Technical Committee (Participant)
2002 - UN/CEFACT eBusiness Working Group Chair
2001 - UN/CEFACT TMG eBusiness Architecture Project Group lead
2002 - ebXML Joint Coordination Committee Technical Advisor (1 of 6)
2002 - ebXML Joint Coordination Committee liaison to W3C Consortium
1999 - Chief Editor / Co-chair ebXML Technical Architecture Project Team
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