Ken Holman
CTO at Crane Softwrights Ltd.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKen Holman is a veteran technology leader and CTO with over four decades of hands-on programming and a decade formally tracked as senior experience, specializing in structured text processing, XML family standards, and XSL/XSL-FO/XSLT toolchains. As founder of Crane Softwrights Ltd. since 1997 he has taught and deployed standards-driven publishing and e-commerce solutions worldwide, advising organizations on JATS, DocBook, UBL and related interchange formats. He blends deep legacy experience—from FORTRAN on IBM 1130s and early microprocessors—to modern standards work and even experimental blockchain-state-machine approaches, which he leverages selectively while balancing retirement and volunteer commitments. A natural communicator and conference presenter, he continues to earn piecemeal revenue through technical training and consulting to fund his standards participation and travel. Based in Ottawa, he also applies XML technologies to creative side projects like downloadable board games and engages with federated social platforms such as Mastodon.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours Co-op), Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours Co-op), Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (47)
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oasis10
maintenance9
platypus9
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ovirt8
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stylesheets8
schema8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oasis-tcs/ubl-2.3-artefacts
May 2020 - May 2021
OASIS UBL TC: For the development of artefacts associated with the UBL 2.3 delivery.- https://github.com/oasis-tcs/ubl-2.3-artefacts
Contributions:11 PRs, 127 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year
oasistcsublartefacts
oasis-editorial-resources/docbook-templates
May 2020 - Oct 2022
OASIS DocBook templates repository: Maintaining DocBook stylesheets for producing OASIS styled HTML and PDF output - https://github.com/oasis-editorial-resources/docbook-templates/
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pdfdocbookcssstylesheetstemplates
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