Martin Soukup
Biography:
Martin has been a successful XML pioneer at Nortel Networks and several other companies over the previous six years. At Nortel he has been involved in the conversion of five major projects to XML-based architectures in integration, adaptation, and business-to-business communication software in Java, J2EE, C++, and Python. He is a co-editor of the Nortel Networks XML Guidelines for Network Management.
Martin has been a contributor to the International Telecommunications Union Study Group on Telecommunications Network Management since 2003, especially interested in generic and XML interfaces and business-to-business communication.
Martin has worked for 10 years on web crawlers, web servers, ISAPI, DCOM, internet services, CORBA, e-commerce, J2EE and web services. Martin is the driving force behind a model driven code generation movement at Nortel Networks which uses XML and XSLT for a development automation framework. He has experience in network security architecture and has recently completed his M.Sc. in self-healing applications for network security.
Martin has a significant background in leading expert communities to produce internal standards and in the presentation and communication of new ideas and technologies within both business and technical contexts. He is also the President of a Canadian WISP specializing in outdoor access.
