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Abbie Barbir, Ph.D., (abbieb@nortel.com) co-chairs the OASIS TAB and is a member of Nortel's Strategic Standards group, where he serves as Senior Advisor in the areas of Web services and Security. This role has involved him in many activities within OASIS, W3C, WS-I, OMA, ITU-T, Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) JTC1 SC6, IETF, Parlay and IPSphere. He currently chairs the Cybersecurity question in ITU-T SG17 and is the vice chair of the CAC for JTC1 SC 6. In 2005, he represented OASIS to ITU-T and was instrumental in having the ITU-T consent the SAML and XACML OASIS Standards as ITU-T Recommendations. Abbie holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, USA. In his more than 20 years in the software and telecommunication industry, he has been a professor of Computer Science in Western Carolina University, an application developer, data compression and encryption inventor, systems architect, security architect, engineering manager, consultant, author, and inventor of numerous security algorithms. His term on the TAB extends to July 2008.

William Barnhill, (barnhill_william@bah.com) joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 2004. He specializes in leveraging emerging XML technologies for government applications and also is responsible for establishing processes and strategies for the design and implementation of net-centric solutions using Web services. Bill has over 15 years experience in software engineering, ranging from low level as an embedded systems developer, to high level as a Windows desktop application developer, web designer, systems integrator, and enterprise architect. Since 2000 he has increasingly focused on Web services; particularly on interoperating Web services to work with each other and with legacy systems. He is a founding member of the OASIS XDI TC, and a member of the OASIS XRI, WSBPEL, and SOA-RM TCs. His term on the TAB extends to July 2008.

Peter Brown (peter.brown@oasis-open.org) serves on the OASIS Board of Directors and as its representative on the OASIS Technical Advisory Board; his term extends to July 2009. Mr. Brown is Founder of Pensive.eu, a consultancy, research and software development company based in Vienna, Austria and Brussels, Belgium. He is currently also Chair of the "eGovernment Focus group" set up by the European standards agency, CEN, and is an active member of OASIS, most recently as co-editor of the SOA-RM OASIS Standard. Most of Mr. Brown's career to date has been working in the European public service - five years for the Council of Europe until 1989 and then for the European Parliament, where his work over 16 years has covered all aspects of the organization's work, from running the leader's office of the largest political group, acting as a political adviser, developing (pre-Web) online information networks, through to developing organization-wide information architecture and involving the Parliament in standards and consortium work. His most recent assignment before founding Pensive, was to join the Austrian Government's EU eGovernment Strategy unit as a senior adviser. Mr. Brown's areas of professional interest cover semantic technologies, identity management, SOA and information management.

Martin Chapman, Ph.D., (martin.chapman@oracle.com) joined Oracle Corporation in 2002 where he holds the position of Consulting Member Technical Staff and focuses on Web Services standards activities. This role has involved him in a plethora of web service activities within W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and ISO. He currently chairs the W3C Web Services Choreography Working Group and the OASIS Web Services Composite Application Framework TC. Martin gained a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing from Oxford Polytechnic and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, in 1989. From 1989 to 1996 he worked at BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, UK, where his principal task was in applying distributed object technology to the telecommunications industry. He joined IONA Technologies in 1996 and served as their prime representative to the OMG. During that time he authored several CORBA specifications and was elected to be a member of the OMG Architecture Board. His term on the TAB extends to July 2009.

William Cox, Ph.D., (wtcox@comcast.net) has developed enterprise product architectures for Bell Labs, Unix System Labs, Novell, and BEA, and has done related work in OASIS, ebXML, the Java Community Process, OMG, and the IEEE, often working at the boundaries between technology and business requirements.. He was lead architect for Unix System V Release 4 and of follow-on highly scalable and secure Unix systems, service-oriented architectures and directory APIs for Novell, Web services and XML messaging and transaction systems, and other enterprise software. He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Today Bill concentrates on Transaction technologies, portal technologies, XML, Web services, and Java expressions of those standards. He is a member of the OASIS WSRP, Business Transaction, and eGovernment TCs and a past member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee and the OMG Board. He is a co-author of the Business Transaction Processing Primer and of WS-Transaction and WS-Coordination. His term on the TAB extends to July 2009.

Jacques Durand Ph.D., (JDurand@us.fujitsu.com) director of Engineering and Standards at Fujitsu Software, evaluates and promotes XML-related and eBusiness standards, and advises on their use in the enterprise software products at Fujitsu. He has actively been involved in ebXML and Web services as a member of the OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC, chair of the OASIS ebXML Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) TC, and co-editor of the OASIS WS-Reliability TC. He has an interest in conformance and testing technology, coordinating with OASIS an initiative to facilitate conformance and interoperability testing for OASIS Standards.

Jacques is actively involved in WS-I and chaired its Testing Tools working group. He is also member of the OMG Production Rules Representation BEIDTF. He has more than 25 years of experience in various areas of software, ranging from R & D to commercial products. He holds a Ph.D. from Nancy Univ (France) in logic programming. His term on the TAB extends to July 2008.

Andy Lee, Ph.D., (javola@vip.sina.com) heads the technical committee of China's Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance. His accomplishments in the area of open standards includes: the development of cnXML, a project which introduced XML technology to China's IT industry; the development of an XML standard suite in China's e-Government reference model and reference architecture; key participation in the adoption of ebXML as China's national eBusiness standard; recognition of Rossettanet as the official e-Logistical standard for China; and the development of SOA EERP, which is regarded as an emerging industry standard in next generation enterprise applications. Andy has also served as China's senior eBusiness advisor and acted as the national major eBusiness project technical reviewer since 2002. He holds a Master's degree in fluid dynamics from Shanghai JiaoTong University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His term on the TAB extends to July 2008.

Hal Lockhart (hlockhar@bea.com) co-chairs the OASIS TAB and is a Senior Principal Engineering Technologist in the CTO's Office of BEA Systems. He represents BEA in information security-related standards activities at various bodies including OASIS, WS-I, EPCGlobal, JCP, W3C, Liberty Alliance, OMG, and Open Group. He is the co-chair of the OASIS XACML TC, co-chair of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC, and an active member of a number of other TCs including WS-SX. a. In 2004 he represented OASIS to ITU-T in relation to SAML and XACML. He was the OASIS Coordinator for the April 2005 WS-Security Interop. He has frequently been an OASIS speaker at various public events and is also the primary representative to OASIS for BEA Systems.. In his more than 30 years in the software industry, Mr. Lockhart has been an application developer, kernel engineer, systems architect, engineering manager, operations manager, consultant, author, Director of Security and standards representative. His term on the TAB extends to July 2009.

Francis McCabe, Ph.D. (frankmccabe@mac.com) is an Individual Member of OASIS working in Palo Alto, California. He serves as secretary of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee and chairs its SOA Reference Architecture Subcommittee. Frank has been active in OASIS, W3C, OMG, JCP and other standards organizations. His previous employers include the Imperial College of London and Fujitsu Laboratories in Japan. One of his main areas of interest is the architecture of distributed multi-owner systems. Frank holds a Ph.D. in Logic and Object Oriented programming. His term on the TAB extends to July 2009.

Mary McRae (mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org), Manager of Technical Committee Administration, provides front-line support for OASIS committees and the standards they produce. She works with OASIS TC chairs, guiding them through the OASIS technical process and helping them reach the goals and objectives of their charters. Mary also serves on the OASIS Technical Advisory Board. She joined the OASIS staff in 2004, but she has been an active member of the Consortium since 1995, serving on the OASIS Board of Directors in 1999. Mary became involved in structured markup languages in 1992, while working for Butterworth Legal Publishers, where she mastered the nuances of document analysis, DTD development, structured editors, and content management systems. Later, as Vice President of XML Solutions and Principal XML Technologist for DMSi, she used her skills at project management, needs analysis, requirements definition, product selection, schema development, application customization, and training to help clients avoid the pitfalls she encountered herself as an early adopter. Sandwiched in between, Mary was the Manager of Sales Support for Xyvision (now XyEnterprise), focusing on SGML/XML content management solutions. Mary is co-author of "Office 2003 XML" and a frequent speaker at industry conferences. In her spare time, Mary is a textile artist. She is based in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, USA.