Christopher Ferris

IBM Corporation

Whitinsville
United States of America

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Biography:

Chris is a senior technical staff member with IBM's Emerging e-business Industry Architecture group. Chris is actively engaged in the development of Web services and e-business standards. He has 23 years experience in the development of distributed systems. Chris currently is the chair of the Web Services Interoperability Organization's (WS-I) Basic Profile Working Group. He also represents IBM on the W3C Web Services Architecture WG (as lead editor). Prior to joining IBM, Chris served as chair of the Web Services Architecture WG, as Sun representative on the XML Protocols WG, and as a member of the OASIS ebXML Messaging TC.

Papers:

XML Masters Series: Web Services