Derek Millar
Biography:
Derek is Director of Professional Services at Newbook Production Inc., an information management and consulting company that develops Technical Publishing Solutions, Electronic Regulatory Solutions and Legal Support Solutions for customers in the public and private sector. He has over ten years of experience providing quality solutions to customers with sophisticated information management and publishing requirements. Industries he has worked with include aerospace, commercial and legal publishing, energy, pharmaceutical and pesticides. He has extensive experience in business analysis, gathering and documenting system requirements and preparing technical specifications.His current areas of interest include the application of Topic Maps to negotiation and decision support systems and in education, and the use of DSDL standards to address the business requirements related to validating electronic regulatory submissions. Derek is currently the Chair of the Canadian Advisory Committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC34, the ISO subcommittee responsible for SGML and related standards.
