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Ian Larner has been working for IBM for 15 years, in Information Development/User Technologies. His role in this team is to architect, write, translate, and deliver information for IBM products and solutions, and to help design and (lately) code user interfaces and other technologies that our customers use. Before joining IBM, Ian worked as a Technical Author for several companies in England and France for 5 years, and before that as a Mechanical Engineer testing components for fast nuclear reactors and designing systems for the safe handling of reactors and nuclear materials. Ian has been involved with DITA since the early days, and was part of a WebSphere project that moved |
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from html to DITA before it was officially supported. He personally migrated over 2000 html files into DITA, while continuing development of the content. Using the default transforms, some tweaks, and some simple custom XSLT, this migration went briskly and without hitch. Ian also wrote some custom XSLT (such as DITA-FO) for the project needs until the core DITA support became available. Since then Ian has helped spread the use of DITA to associated groups, and has evolved the sophistication of DITA usage within IBM projects. In February 2005, Ian became one of the IBM DITA Architects, to help with the adoption and evolution of the OASIS DITA Standard both within IBM and throughout the wider community. |
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