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John Schlesinger Bio |
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SchlesingerTechnical Director, The Center for XML and Web Services Technologies Graduated from Oxford England with a degree in Theoretical Physics and Philosophy and went to work for IBM. After 8 years as a Systems Engineer went to Paris to work on a joint English, French project to develop support for the Minitel network. The result was a product that enabled any terminal to speak to any application over any network (for example, enabling a DEC VT100 to use the X.25 network to run a CICS application written for SNA and 3270). The manuals for the product were written in custom GML tags which Schlesinger developed himself. Then worked for six years in CICS development. The final project before leaving was to lead the development of the CICSPlex SM product which enabled a network of thousands of CICS regions to be managed and operated from a single point of control. CICSPlex design manuals also used custom GML tags, but these generated not only the books but also 1 million lines of the code. Schlesinger left IBM in 1994 to become a product manager at Information Builders. As product manager for the Enterprise Data Access product he put one of the first middleware servers into the market. The manuals were also written in GML (using standard tags this time) but this time Schlesinger also wrote a program to convert them to HTML and put up the second web site at Information Builders. In 1997 Schlesinger presented a design for a broker to the company and left when the company decided to build an application server instead. He was technical director for One Meaning, a start up that developed a metadata repository which was bought by Oracle. After three weeks of employment in Oracle he left to join Dun and Bradstreet as head of the architecture department. This was a team of twelve people providing overall architecture to the 1200 strong IT team. During this time an overall architecture for application and data integration was developed. Schlesinger left D&B after 18 months to be a consultant in 2000 and worked for three years helping other companies implement integration architectures.
At the end of 2002 the consulting company decided to stop doing enterprise architecture and Schlesinger left to be Director of Systems Engineering for SeeBeyond, a vendor of integration middleware. In 2003 Schlesinger rejoined Information Builders as Director of Solutions for the iWay subsidiary where he works on the iWay adapter suite of products.
John F Schlesinger Director of Solutions iWay Software Cell: 917 770 5646 Desk: 917 339 5517 |
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