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Jonathan Marsh
Director, Mashup Technologies
Prior to joining WSO2, Jonathan spent almost 10 years at Microsoft where he was the primary representative for W3C standards Working Groups in the XML and Web Services area, including the Web Services Description (currently serving as chair), Web Services Addressing, XSL, XML Core, XML Linking, DOM, and the Advisory Committee. He also has been active in the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group and several OASIS Technical Committees.
Jonathan has served as editor of W3C Recommendations including XInclude, XML Base, xml:id and the XPointer Framework, as well as editor of the W3C Member Submissions WSDL 1.1 Binding Extension for SOAP 1.2 and the SOAP 1.1 Binding for MTOM 1.0.
He has been involved in the development of a number of technologies that have proven invaluable to the industry, such as XML 1.0, XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0, the XML Information Set, WS-Addressing 1.0, WSDL 2.0, and the WS-I Basic Profile.
Jonathan is trained in both software development and product design. He co-founded and served as Design Director of Walkabout Software in 1996. Walkabout developed rendering technology and HTML extensions enabling CD-ROM-level design control over web page publishing including advanced layout and composition, animation, and interactivity. The company was later acquired by Microsoft.
He has won awards for his design accomplishments including the ID Magazine Design Distinction award in 1995, and awards for the 1994 Apple Interface Design Competition for a project designing a handheld digital computer/network communicator for 4-6 year olds.
Jonathan has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Nevada, Reno and received his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering/Product Design from Stanford University.
