Dave Hollander
Loveland, Colorado 80538
mailto: ***@*****.***
http://www.mhxml.com
Objective
To work with a high performance team in positioning, designing, developing and delivering the next generation of XML enabled, service oriented architecture (SOA) data integration services for information system solutions.
Highlights
Proven LeadershipChairman and CTO of Contivo, IncFormer Co-chair of W3C XML Schema and Web Services Working Groups
Proven Innovator
Leading Industry expert on XML Schemas with extensive experience with XML systems and data integration.
Experience
7/2000 – 1/2008 Contivo, Inc Loveland, CO
Chairman and Chief Technology Officer
Co-led Contivo for 20 months along with the executive team, CEO, VP Sales and VP Engineering. During the restructuring I directly led the technology direction by managing the engineering and QA teams during developing maintenance releases to stabilize the existing product while leading the development of new vocabulary based XML Schema development tool.
I worked with the sales team on customer acquisition and personally delivered strategic consulting and vocabulary and XML Schema training to key customers each quarter. I also redeveloped overall corporate marketing with new product oriented positioning delivered in revised web site and white papers.
Chief Technology Officer
In my CTO role I provided overall technical strategic and leadership to the company, including developing products and services, analyzing market trends and opportunities.Developed strategic consulting services program. Developed overall consulting strategy and offerings, delivered these services successfully to Contivo’s largest customers.Prepare and deliver company presentations to press, analysts, partners, and venture capital companies. Successfully achieved significant coverage, partnership opportunities, funding offers, and marketplace presence.Prepared and delivered presentations at Contivo Seminars and conferences to customers on industry trends and Contivo products and services. These presentations accounted for a large percentage of the lead pipeline.Lead and participated in standards activities (W3C, OAG, EIDX, UDDI), including the release of the W3C XML Schema Recommendations by the workgroup I co-chaired. These standards are of particular significance to Contivo customers and were central to the Contivo value proposition.
6/1999 – 6/2000 CommerceNet Loveland, CO
Director of eCommerce Knowledge Management and Interoperability
Lead CommerceNet in the development of a strategy for the eCo Framework and application of XML to catalog interoperability, OBI and eCheck. Co-chaired W3C XML Schema Work Group, developed and presented presentations on the role of XML and eCo in eCommerce, provided consulting to select members.
9/1988 - 6/1999 Hewlett-Packard Company Fort Collins, CO
XML ArchitectWorld Wide Channel Marketing - Developed marketing content management strategy. Architected and developed XML based marcom information management system. Corporate IT - Designed and promoted standard services for web publishing, Internet proxy, content management, and desktop browsers.Electronic Marketing and Commerce Services - developed and maintained HP.COM from the beginning until it was serving 1 million hits per day. Developed and maintained content development tools that allowed 50 divisions to publish their content on HP.COM.Corporate Engineering - Developed SGML based product documentation strategy including DTD development (OpenBook, TrainingTag, SDL). Consulted with product divisions on developing and deploying SGML content. Participated in OSF and Davenport standards DTD development.Application Support Division - designed and developed content management environment for CD-ROM publishing. Developed HPUX based CD-ROM pre-mastering software. Participated in industry consortium to develop the defacto-standard Rock Ridge format.
1/1987 - 8/1988 Philips and DuPont Optical Wilmington, DE
Technical Applications EngineerProvided technical pre-sales support for emerging CD-ROM industry. Developed and installed CD-ROM pre-mastering systems for production use.
4/1985 - 12/1986 DICOMED Corporation Minneapolis, MN
Senior Programmer/AnalystRedesigned major portions of the software used in the presentation design workstation. Reduced code size, increased reliability, feature set and performance.
7/1983- 3/1985 Audio Visual Laboratories Eatontown, NJ
Director of Product Planning
Conceived and developed presentation graphics applications that led AVL's effort to define and create the PC based graphics workstation market.
6/1977 - 17/1983 Bell Telephone Laboratories Holmdel, NJ
Senior Technical Associate
Provided software and hardware design and development support to the New Station Technologies Department. Investigated and prototyped facsimile, computer graphics and other telephony based teleconferencing technology.
Education
1981 Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI
1977 State University of New York at Morrisville Morrisville, NY
Papers
About Dave Hollander: Software AG; June 2001 Innovators And Influencers 2001: Fifteen thought leaders who intend to influence and inspire the IT ; ; InformationWeek; January 2001
By Dave HollanderNamespaces in XML (W3C Recommendation)Adding Information Management to the Corporate Infrastructure Moving Hewlett-Packard Toward a Multi-Tiered Web Environment
Activities
Former co-chair W3C Web Service Architecture Working GroupFormer Co-chair of W3C XML ActivityFormer Co-chair of W3C XML Schemas Work GroupFounding member of XML Working GroupFormer Technical Advisor: Cohera Corporation, Noonetime, OSM Sarl