Colin MacKenzie
Consultant and Owner @Mackenzie Solutions Ltd
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WORK HISTORY
Consultant and Owner @Mackenzie Solutions Ltd
GB
As a consultant at Mackenzie Solutions Ltd I provide business / technical consultancy and development skills to clients. I am expert in XML information and document publishing solutions and can support clients who are purchasing, tailoring or building such solutions.I have worked with various organizations to analyse information and devise schema standards to facilitate the exchange of information.I have extensive development skills in all major XML technologies particularly in- XSLT (1, 2 and 3)- XSL-FO- XML Schema (XSD, Relax-NG, Schematron)- xQuery, xPath and XProc (1,3)- DITA-OT (DITA Open Toolkit)I have also extensive experience with the creation of SaaS-based cloud solutions having been the driving force behind the UK\'s first cloud solution for Government.Projects include:Design and development of automation, quality and conversion tools for MS Word.Standards industry leader client- Solutions architect for Knowledge Solutions (new eCommerce system)- Consultancy on XML publishing, ISO and NISO, APIs and systems architecture - Development of quality and data tools.Embedded software company- Develop DITA-OT plug-in to export data as ReStructuredTextGovernment information publisher- Re-architect the UK legislation schema, creation of tools to perform schema documentation and bulk validation- Redesign and develop an authoring, management and publishing process for a major high-quality print and electronic product with complex tables, maths and linking.Legal publisher- Providing business analysis, management and consultancy to deliver automated legal documents- Design and deliver a customer engagement process and custom styling solution for XML to Word publishing.Major semiconductor company- consultancy and development services (XSLT2, XSL-FO, Ant, DITA Open Tookit, Ixiasoft DITA CMS).Transforming Hansard XML data into canonical format.Contact me at c••••@mackenziesolutions.co.uk
EDUCATION
University of Stirling
Comp Sci and Psychology
SKILLS
ABOUT COLIN MACKENZIE
Fundamentally I am a problem solver and communicator.I love working with clients to understand their issues and inventing creative solutions. The more difficult the problem, the more satisfaction I get from devising innovative ways to solve the issue though technology and by inspiring and leading a team. I can communicate effectively with people at all levels and technical ability in order to facilitate the creation of solutions and to ensure those solutions are adopted successfully. I provide consultancy to investigate third party technologies and product suites their market applicability/opportunity in order to evaluate their potential as future integration partners or acquisitions.As a technologist I also enjoy getting my hands dirty by utilising new technologies to deliver customer benefit. Throughout my career I have continued to develop and utilise my XML-related technical skills to- develop production code- prototype and prove solutions prior to handover to developers- deliver technical consultancy, data modelling for enterprise content and XML schemas.I can also perform interim management of content, delivery or development teams.Specialties: Consultancy, software product management and design, XML XSLT xQuery XSL-FO XProc based solutions, data modelling, XML schema, Schematron and related technologies, Schema and XSLT delivery frameworks, OOXML, content management, paper and electronic publishing.SaaS and GovernmentDITA Consultant and DITA Open Toolkit OT development.Contact me at : c••••@mackenziesolutions.co.uk
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