CV: Dr Jeni Tennison

Personal Information

Nationality:	British
Age:	36

Objective

I am currently working freelance, and am particularly interested in part time or consultancy work in which I can apply my skills and interest in web-based technologies, particularly XML, XSLT and XML Schemas, and preferably take advantage of my academic background in knowledge management and the Semantic Web. I particularly enjoy the challenge of expanding my knowledge and abilities to meet the demands of individual projects. I like technical writing, tutoring, and working closely with customers to identify and satisfy their requirements,.

Employment

October 2000 - present Director Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd	XML+XSLT application design and development Linked Data and Semantic Web application design and development Technical authoring Tutoring and mentoring in XML, XSLT and XML Schemas Training course development and delivery in: XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 XML Schemas Data modelling XML Application Development
1998 - October 2000 Senior Knowledge Engineer and Security Controller Epistemics Ltd	Knowledge acquisition, modelling and documentation Project and team management Research and development in knowledge engineering
1996 - 1998 IT Consultant	Consultant on electronic conferences (Virtual Environments International, Oxford) Website design and HTML authoring (Dept. of Computer Science, Nottingham)
1994 - 1998 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Nottingham	Training undergraduates and staff in HTML, expert systems, information technology and multivariate statistics Design, development and coordination of departmental website
1992 - 1993 Student Psychologist Recruitment & Assessment Services	Computer-based aptitude test administration, scoring, interpretation and evaluation Design, development and coordination of departmental website

Education

1994 - 1999 PhD in Psychology/Artificial Intelligence University of Nottingham	Thesis title: "Living Ontologies: Collaborative Knowledge Structuring on the Internet" Research on web communities and knowledge engineering, including the development of a MOO-based HTTP server that formed the basis of a collaborative knowledge server
1990 - 1994 BSc (Hons) Psychology (First Class) University of Nottingham	Focussing on artificial intelligence (expert systems, neural networks & theories of cognition) and human-computer interface design & evaluation
1990 - 1994 Diploma in Applied Psychology University of Nottingham	Occupational psychology, particularly selection & recruitment
1986 - 1990 The Netherhall School	A Levels in Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Further Maths and English 8 GCSEs; 1 O Level

Skills

Web-oriented skills	XML, XSLT, XML Schema & other XML-related standards RDF, RDFa, OWL & other Semantic-Web-related standards HTML and XHTML CSS and XSL-FO Atom and APP RESTful web application design and development Ruby on Rails
Programming skills	XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 ECMAScript, JavaScript, JScript, VBScript Ruby Java
Instructional skills	providing programming training leading workshops providing software training technical writing
Knowledge-oriented skills	knowledge management CommonKADS knowledge-acquisition techniques (structured interviews, repertory grids, card sorts, laddering, 20 questions, protocol analysis) knowledge modelling knowledge-based system development and implementation
Project-management skills	customer liaison & presentation team working

Publications

"Beginning XSLT 2.0" (July 2005)
Chapter on XSLT Best Practice in "XML Design Handbook" by Scott Bonneau et al. (March 2003)
Appendix on XPath in "SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled" by Kevin Williams et al. (October 2002)
"Beginning XSLT" (May 2002)
"XSLT & XPath On The Edge, Unlimited Edition"; see the book's website for more material (September 2001)
Chapter on XSLT and XML Schema in "Professional XML Schemas" by Jon Duckett et al. (July 2001)
Appendix on Muenchian Grouping in "XSLT and XPATH: A Guide to XML Transformations" by John Robert Gardner and Zarella L. Rendon (July 2001)
Description of XSLTDoc in "Professional XSL" by Kurt Cagle et al. (June 2001)

Achievements

Presented at XTech 2008 on SemWebbing the London Gazette
Presented at XTech 2007 on Creole: Validating Overlapping Markup
Presented at Extreme Markup Languages 2006 on Datatypes for XML: the Datatyping Library Language (DTLL)
Invited Expert on W3C's XML Processing WG
Presented at XTech 2005 on Managing Complex Document Generation Through Pipelining
Presented at XML Open 2004 on Datatypes in XML
Presented at Extreme Markup Languages 2003 on Typing in transformations
Presented at XML Europe 2003 on What's New in XSLT 2.0
Invited Expert on W3C's XSL WG
Presented at Extreme Markup Languages 2002 on automated comparisons of markup languages and on the Layered Markup and Annotation Language (LMNL)
Voted ActiveState's 2002 Activator's Choice Programmer of the Year for XSLT
Invited to speak at XSLT UK '01 on XSLT Design Patterns
Regular contributor on XSL-List and xmlschema-dev
Presented at Ergonomics Society Conference 2000 on knowledge-based system design, development and implementation
Presented at KAW'98 on knowledge servers
Led workshop at WWW'96 on electronic conferences

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Dr Jeni Tennison

Personal Information

Objective

Employment

October 2000 - present Director Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd

1998 - October 2000 Senior Knowledge Engineer and Security Controller Epistemics Ltd

1996 - 1998 IT Consultant

1994 - 1998 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Nottingham

1992 - 1993 Student Psychologist Recruitment & Assessment Services

Education

1994 - 1999 PhD in Psychology/Artificial Intelligence University of Nottingham

1990 - 1994 BSc (Hons) Psychology (First Class) University of Nottingham

1990 - 1994 Diploma in Applied Psychology University of Nottingham

1986 - 1990 The Netherhall School

Skills

Web-oriented skills

Programming skills

Instructional skills

Knowledge-oriented skills

Project-management skills

Publications

Achievements

References

October 2000 - present
Director
Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd

1998 - October 2000
Senior Knowledge Engineer and Security Controller
Epistemics Ltd

1996 - 1998
IT Consultant

1994 - 1998
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Nottingham

1992 - 1993
Student Psychologist
Recruitment & Assessment Services

1994 - 1999
PhD in Psychology/Artificial Intelligence
University of Nottingham

1990 - 1994
BSc (Hons) Psychology (First Class)
University of Nottingham

1990 - 1994
Diploma in Applied Psychology
University of Nottingham

1986 - 1990
The Netherhall School