Michel Rodriguez

Consultant, Perl & XML

SGML/XML, Perl, Web Programming

Current Position (since July 2000)

Consultant, Perl & XML

I work mostly for my former company, the IEEE Standards Department, but I also do consulting contracts on XML, Aecma 1000D and Open-Source projects.

XML/SGML expert for the Electronic Publishing of IEEE Standards: DTD development, Publishing environment development (FrameMaker+SGML EDD, WordPerfect), Conversion to XML/SGML, SGML data extraction, HTML conversion.

Customer database management system development: web-based, web-access management.

Talked or gave tutorials at various Perl and XML conferences, write articles about Perl and XML.

Serves as an expert on Open-Source projects for the European Commission.

Author of the XML::Twig Module, available on CPAN.

Set-up and administration of an heterogeneous (Solaris, Mac, Windows, Linux) network.

Education:

1987: Degree in Computer Science from ENSEEIHT (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, Electrotechnique, Informatique et Hydraulique de Toulouse), equivalent to an American Masters Degree.

Skills

SGML/XML

conversion to SGML/XML, SGML/XML conversion to HTML, style sheet development, SGML databases, SGML/XML data processing, XSLT (basic knowledge). In depth knowledge of the domain, both as a user, developer and COTS developer for 15 years. Good knowledge of the Aecma-1000 D specification.

Programming Languages

Perl, C (and Lisp, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2, Algol, some assembly languages)

DBMS

PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, SGML/Store

Web

CGI, Apache, mod_perl, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript

Operating Systems

Unix (Solaris and Linux system administration skills), Mac OS X, Windows

Other

Software Development Tools (CVS), Language processing (lex/yacc), Quality Assurance, Artificial Intelligence

Languages

French (mother tongue), English (fluent), Italian (spoken), Spanish (spoken)

Past Positions

1996-2000

Senior Programer-Analyst for the IEEE (Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineer), Standards Activities. Same Activities as in my current position.

1992-1996

Member of a group that provided SGML expertise to the Technical Publication Direction of Aerospatiale, in Toulouse (France). Development of an SGML transformation language that processed documents stored in an SGML data base. I presented the langage at the 1993 SGML Europe conference. Analysis of the impact of the AECMA 1000D specification (a set of guidelines and DTD's for the creation of Technical Publications) on Aerospatiale's production process. I presented the results of that study at the 1994 CALS Europe conference, Participation in the working group in charge of the development of the AECMA 1000D DTD's.

1989-1992

Quality Assurance for the SMART project (250 man x year), first as a sub-contractor, then as deputy manager, then as manager for Aerospatiale, in Toulouse (France).

1988

Artificial Intelligence expert for the Meteosat Operations Department of the ESA (European Space Agency) in Darmstadt, Germany. Development of a real-time expert system for fault detection and recovery for the Meteosat control center.

Links

Articles by Michel Rodriguez

links to the various articles I have published on Perl and XML

Tutorials

links to tutorials on Perl & XML and XML::Twig

Talks

links to talks at a number of Perl conferences

XML::Twig

a Perl module that subclasses XML-Parser to allow easy tree processing of XML documents

Example IEEE Standards Description

Generated from standards in SGML. The whole production cycle for a standard is FrameMaker -> SGML/XML -> HTML, PDF, Definition Data Base and HTML description

The IEEE Standards DTD

The DTD used for all IEEE Standards.

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