Leigh Dodds is an Engineering Manager employed by Ingenta where he is responsible for the ongoing development of the IngentaConnect website, a large aggregation of academic research content.
Leigh has been developing with Java, XML, and Semantic Web technologies for a number of years and has released several small open source applications and APIs. He has also contributed code and documentation to several open source projects.
As a freelance author Leigh has written articles and tutorials to sites including xmlhack, IBM developerWorks and XML.com. Between February 2000 to June 2002 Leigh regularly reported on new developments in the XML community as the author of the XML Deviant column. Leigh has presented at several XML conferences, and acted as technical reviewer for a number of books covering core XML technologies. Leigh also contributed several "hacks" to the recently published O'Reilly book, XML Hacks.
As well as writing and speaking on XML topics, Leigh also has experience in running technical training courses, having written and presented a training course on introductory Java programming. This course was delivered as part of Bath University's Lifelong Learning Programme during the Winter 2002 and Spring 2003 semesters.
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Leigh is based in Bath, UK.