Member of the W3C GRDDL and XML Processing Working Groups.
Member of the Quality Review Team of the ebXML Project in 2000.
Represented Commerce One, Grif S.A. and Veo Systems in W3C Working Groups and on the AC.
Chair of CommerceNet's eCo Framework Project in 1999.
Co-editor of the W3C XML Schema.
Former member of W3C's XML Linking and XML Style Working Groups.
I have given tutorials on XML and electronic commerce at several conferences.
Technical representative and company spokesperson: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), SGML Open, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Working Group 6, Web Accessibility Initiative, Davenport Group, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI), International World Wide Web Conference Committee, Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation, and the International Committee for Accessible Document Design (ICADD).
Instrumental in the development of HTML and CSS specifications, SGML Open fragment specification, Digital Libraries Initiative mathematics representation specification, promotion of SGML and XML, and formation of the Web Accessibility Initiative. Speaker, invited speaker, keynote speaker, panelist and session chair at Seybold, WWW, SGML, IEEE, Documation, and 1-ISP conferences.
Coordinated product release of HoTMetaL PRO 2.0, and SoftQuad Panorama PRO 1.5. Developed initial concept for SoftQuad HoTMetaL intranet Publisher (H.i.P.). Managed relationships with third-party technology vendors. Developed "Products" section of prospectus for SoftQuad’s initial public offering on NASDAQ in 1995.
Managed technical documentation and work with development teams to design and implement publishing systems. Wrote, designed, typeset and produced several award-winning technical manuals. Served as a consultant to R&D teams: as a member of the design team for SoftQuad Publishing Software; providing competitive analysis; resident expert on indexing, cross-referencing and hypertext.
Responsible for managing the development of customized production-publishing systems for the U.S. Department of Defense CALS initiative. Performed project requirements analysis; developed formal specifications for several document types, including SGML DTDs and output format specifications; managed production schedules and coordinated development teams; designed mechanism for conversion of SGML documents to native publishing systems.
Managed the activities of technical staff responsible for hot-line support, training, demo packages for presentations, sales database creation and maintenance, manufacture and distribution of software products, and participation at trade shows.
Member of company’s technical strategy team. Helped design and develop the world’s first HTML-based context-sensitive help and online documentation system in 1993 and ‘94. Member of small teams responsible for design of documentation products, and design and implementation of publishing system. Represent company on various technical committees related to information architecture, document interchange, print publishing, hypertext, internationalization, SGML and HTML. Speaker at SCO Forum ’93 and session chair at SCO Forum ’94. Speaker at Seybold ’95.
Member of technical publications and engineering management teams. Responsible for a local staff of technical writers and typesetters, producing a five thousand page set of technical manuals for SCO’s UNIX development system. Project management responsibility for writers and typesetters in California and England. Created SCO Canada’s Technical Publications department. Incurred negligible recruitment costs over a three year period. Introduced automated production tools and techniques which significantly improved quality, and reduced costs by eliminating manual intervention. Subject matter included C and C++ compilers, graphical debuggers, networking and windowing system libraries, software packaging utilities, and system administration utilities.
Co-produced complete documentation set for an emerging 4GL business software system, including user manuals, technical product description, and the system’s technical specification. Delivered product documentation in advance of actual software implementation. Managed company’s conversion to laser-printer production of product documentation and coordinated development of a customized document formatting package on the UNIX operating system. Co-produced a procedures manual for use by the technical publications group. Implemented scripted demonstrations for use at trade shows.
Produced documentation for Sentrol’s distributed process control systems, including user’s manuals and field engineer’s reference manual.
Responsible for scheduling and supervision of quality control activities in a start-up printed circuit board manufacturing plant. Co-produced facility design, and supervised initial setup of facility. Designed and implemented a manual-write production scheduling system, and a contract bidding program.
Responsible for production and scheduling of a line of industrial radio and television equipment. Designed a manual-write production scheduling system for line of Studio-Transmitter Links.
Co-produced user manuals for complete line of medical video systems. Produced user manuals for large-scale I.C. micro-video inspection and measurement systems. Coordinated conference activities.
Largely self-taught or trained on-the-job. Read and absorb large volumes of printed material fairly quickly. Formal training in electronics, networking, programming, writing, and graphic arts.
Graduated Electronics Technician: Computers program with honors. Course of study included data communications, technical communications, rudiments of computer application design and implementation, programming, digital circuit analysis, microprocessors and networking,.
Audited various computer science and journalism courses.
Courses taken included writing, graphic arts and design, and an introductory course in computer programming.
Beech, David; et al. "XML Schema Definition Language", WD-XSDL-19990412, MIT/W3C, April 1999.
Fuchs, Matt; Maloney, Murray; Milowski, Alex. "Schema for Object-oriented XML", MIT/W3C, NOTE-SOX-19980930, September 1998
Bray, Tim; et al. "Extensible Markup Language (XML)", REC-xml-19980210, MIT/W3C, February 1998. (Contributor as member of W3C XML WG.)
Rubinsky, Yuri; Maloney, Murray. SGML on the Web: Small Steps Beyond HTML, Prentice Hall PTR, (1997) ISBN 0-13-519984-0.
Maloney, Murray. "Network Publishing: Addressing the New Information Paradigm - Building Distributed Communities of Information", SoftQuad White Paper (1996)
Berners-Lee, Tim; et al. "Hypertext Links in HTML", WD-htmllink-970328, MIT/W3C, March 1997. (Edited/derived work.)
Maloney, Murray. "Implementing HTML Frames", WD-frames-970331, MIT/W3C, March 1997.
Stayton, Bob; et al. "Additional Named Entities for HTML", WD-entities-961125, MIT/W3C, November 1996. (Contributor as member of W3C HTML ERB.)
Maloney, Murray; Quin, Liam. "Hypertext Link Relationships", Internet Draft (1996).
Raggett, Dave; et al. "HTML 3.2 Reference Specification", REC-html32, MIT/W3C, January 1997. (Contributor as member of W3C HTML ERB.)
Lie, Häkon; Bos, Bert; et al. "Cascading Style Sheets, level 1", REC-CSS1-96121, MIT/W3C, December 1996. (Contributor as member of W3C HTML ERB.)
Berners-Lee, Tim; Connolly, Dan; et al. "Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0", RFC 1866, IETF/MIT/W3C, November 1995. (Contributor as member of IETF HTML WG.)
Maloney, Murray; et al.. Panorama PRO User Manual, SoftQuad Press, (1995).
Rubinsky, Yuri; et al. "Description of the ICADD Mechanism", International Committee for Accessible Document Design (1994). (Edited by Murray Maloney and Murray Altheim.)
Rubinsky, Yuri; et al. "Preparing Electronic Text for Braille, Large Print and Computer Voice: Philosophy and Techniques", International Committee for Accessible Document Design (1994). (Edited by Murray Maloney and Murray Altheim.)
Maloney, Murray. dbXtra: Graphical Debugger User Manual, HCR Corporation (1990)
Goldfarb, Charles F. The SGML Handbook, Oxford University Press, (1990) ISBN 0-19-853737-9. (Edited by Yuri Rubinsky and indexed by Murray Maloney.)
Maloney, Murray. "Rudiments of Typesetting", Communications Times, Society for Technical Communications (1987, 1988)
Maloney, Murray; et al. Author/Editor User’s Guide, SoftQuad Press, (1989) ISBN 0-88910-303-8.
Maloney, Murray. MM Macros: Technical Reference, SoftQuad Press, (1988) ISBN 0-88910-353-4.
Maloney, Murray; et al. Pre-processors: Technical Reference, SoftQuad Press, (1988) ISBN 0-8891-351-0.
Maloney, Murray. Text Formatting: Technical Reference, SoftQuad Press, (1987) ISBN 0-88910-326-7.
Maloney, Murray. System Administrator’s Guide, SoftQuad Press, (1987) ISBN 0-88910-303-8.
Maloney, Murray. Chariot Application Generator User Manual, Human Computing Resources Corporation (1985)
Maloney, Murray. Chariot Accounting User Manual, Human Computing Resources Corporation (1985)
Maloney, Murray. Chariot Technical Product Description, Human Computing Resources Corporation (1985).
Maloney, Murray; et al. SAGE Distributed Process Control System Operator’s Manual, Sentrol Systems (1982).
Maloney, Murray; et al. Sentry System User’s Guide, Sentrol Systems (1982).
Maloney, Murray. Micro-Video Cameras Operating Manual, Circon Corporation (1978).
Maloney, Murray. Micro-Video Inspection Operating Manual, Circon Corporation (1978).
Maloney, Murray. MicroVideo Metrology Operating Manual, Circon Corporation (1978).
Maloney, Murray. MicroVideo Metrology Assembly Manual, Circon Corporation (1977).