Zarella L. Rendon

zarella@xml-factor.com

214-762-5655

Experience
Feb. 02 to Present	XML Factor, Inc.
	Managing Director - Responsible for XML Publishing Solutions, including design, development, and deployment of end-to-end systems, management of XML migration processes, conversion strategies, stylesheets, and final delivered products.
Aug. 01 to Feb. 02	HMM Consulting International, Inc.
	Principal Consultant - Designed and implementated end-to-end customer solutions for document and data transformation, management, and reuse.
Feb. 94 to May 01	Isogen International Corp., an Innodata Company
	Sr. Applications Engineer - Specialized in managing customer projects which involve design, development, implementation, and support of Technical Document Management Systems for customers in various industries including Telecommunications, Oil and Gas , Publishing, Air Transport, Computer Software, Railroad, and the US Postal Service. - Performed document analysis, DTD development, conversion strategies, on-line document design and implementation, and document database development. - Developed and implemented CD-ROM and on-line documentation products using Inso DynaText and Insted. - Special Projects: o Developed and implemented conversion systems for SGML to and from XyASCII, RTF, MIF, ASCII, HTML, DTD to DTD, and LinkOne. o Created and modified PDM tools for importing, editing, and exporting SGML using Perl, C-Shell, and Omnimark. o Created a generic RTF to SGML conversion process with on-the-fly creation of parsable data and document specific DTDs. o Created and implemented a document acceptance, fragmenter and import system for TIM DTD (Telecommunications Industry) using Omnimark and PDM database systems. - Tested and corrected course material for Inso, including DynaBase product.
Jan. 89 to Feb. 94	Northern Telecom, Inc.
	Applications Support Specialist, Product Support Services - Developed and implement an On-Line Technical Document Library utilizing ISO Standard SGML format and applications such as INSO DynaText, Avalanche's FastTag, and SoftQuad's Author/Editor. - Administer and maintain document databases, stylesheets and document formats. - Evaluate and develop new software tools for the administration and support of the document library.

Professional Associations	W3C XSL Working Group Member; OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Voting Member; OASIS Individual Member; INCITS V1 Voting Member (ISO Rep.); ISUG Member; XML Guild Member; TCIF-IPI Member; Enigma UG; Xyvision UG; International Who's Who of Information Technology.
Education	Bachelor of Science, Business Management, University of Phoenix. Associate Degree, Computer Information Systems, Richland College. Presently pursuing a Master of Information Systems/Management at The University of Phoenix.

Books	Software Expertise
XSLT & XPath, A Guide to XML Transformations Co-Authored with John Robert Gardner, Sun Microsystems ISBN: 0-13-040446-2 Published by Prentice-Hall July 2001 http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0130404462,00.html	Standards
	SGML, XML, XSLT
	XPath, XSL-FO, XQuery
	Topic Maps, Schema, DTD
	HTML, XHTML, CSS
Publications/Presentations	SGML/XML Applications
Net of the Future Keynote Presented at Internet Librarian 2003 Monterey Conference Center, CA http://www.infotoday.com/il2003/default.htm	AntennaHouse XSLFormatter
	XMLSpy
	Arbortext Epic
	DynaText, DynaTag
	DynaWeb, DynaBase
Named Character Elements for XML Co-Authored with Anthony B. Coates, Financial XML Specialist Published in XML.com January 02, 2003 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/02/xmlchar.html	Insted Editor
	DynaText SIT
	OmniMark
	SoftQuad XMetaL
	ArborText, ACL
Anatomy of an XML Content Management System Co-Authored with Brian Buehling, Dakota Systems Published and presented at XML 2002 http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2002	Xyvision PDM & XPP
xmLP: Literate Programming tool for XML and text Co-Authored with Anthony B. Coates, Financial XML Specialist Published for Extreme Markup Languages 2002, Montreal http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/ http://xmLP.sourceforge.net/
Handling Character Entities in XSLT 1.0 Markup Languages: Theory and Practice Volume: 3 Number: 3 Page: p250 Published by MIT Press http://www.catchword.com/mitpress/10996621/v3n3/contp1-1.htm
Authoring for Reuse: Component-based Authoring Co-Authored and Presented with Caron Newman, Sun Microsystems Published for XML 2000, Washington, D.C. http://www.gca.org/attend/2000_conferences/XML_2000/publishing.htm - rendon Also re-published for Sun Microsystem Internal Press
Creating Platform-Independent, Context-Sensitive User Assistance (On-Line Help) With an Enterprise-Wide SGML Publishing Platform Co-Authored and Presented with Matthew Brannon, Lucent Technologies Published for XML 1999, Philadelphia, PA http://www.gca.org/attend/1999_conferences/xml_99/xml99_7tracks.htm
Railroad Industry Forum (RIF) Electronic Parts Catalog Exchange Standard (EPCES) Co-Authored and Presented with Betty Harvey, ECC Published for SGML 1997, Washington, D.C. http://www.eccnet.com/papers/epces.html