Stevebratt
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Proposed updates to article on me - Steve Bratt
edit- @Igarnish: Thanks for offering to help update this out-of-date biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bratt
The main reason for the inaccuracies in the current article is because I changed jobs 4 years ago. Though others created and updated the current article on me over the years, my most recent job transition has not been updated by anyone else in the past 4 years and thus would lead readers to the wrong impression. Here are 4 simple, suggested changes, with references where appropriate:
Change first 2 sentences from:
"Steven Richard Bratt (pronounced: 'braht') (born February 10, 1957) serves as Chief Technology Officer and President, Standards Development for GS1. He previously served as the founding Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Foundation and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."
TO
"Steven Richard Bratt (rhymes with 'Watt') (born February 10, 1957) has served as Leader of the MITRE Health Standards and Interoperability Group, Chief Technology Officer and President of Standards Development for GS1, Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Foundation and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and in other science and technology positions."
Under the GS1 section, 3rd sentence, Change to make is past tense:
"Bratt is responsible"
TO
"Bratt was responsible"
Between the GS1 and Personal Information sections, add new section about current job (2 public references provided):
The MITRE Corporation
editBratt joined MITRE in 2017, serving as Leader of the Health Standards and Interoperability Group (external link - https://health.mitre.org/blog/steve-bratt/), and Program Manager for the Common Oncology Data Elements Extensions (CodeX) HL7 FHIR Accelerator (external link - https://www.hl7.org/codex/). CodeX is a multi-stakeholder community aiming to address the need to obtain high-quality, interoperable, computable data to improve cancer care and research.
Personal information section - Fixing bad web links and tense - Replace entire section with
Bratt was the Chief Running Officer of Winchester Highlanders Road Running Club (external link - http://www.winchesterhighlanders.org/) and is the keyboardist of a band SIX (external link - https://www.facebook.com/ILikeSIX/about/)
- @Igarnish: Hi! Should I go ahead and update the page so it is accurate? I believe the above text is objective, and changes are backed by references.
- @Igarnish: Changes made. Thanks for the advice.