2015 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition
 


Title
Director
Company
SEPIAeb Ltd.
Bio

Following many years, designing, developing and marketing cross-border documentation solutions, in March 2003 Sue formed an independent consultancy company trading as SEPIAeb Ltd.

 

Sue has more than 40 years experience working in the computer industry as programmer, systems analyst, software designer, trainer, training course designer, presenter, consultant and technical author.

 

For the past twenty years Sue has focused on the area of paper and electronic documentation production requirements particularly in the international trade and transport arena. Sue is a keen advocate of Trade Facilitation and she believes fervently that, in the future, modern communications methods will play an increasingly significant role in simplifying cross-border trade and governmental procedures.

 

She has in-depth knowledge of the formats and uses of standard international trade, transport, financial and customs UN Aligned paper documents and a profound knowledge of the UN/EDIFACT and ANSI.X12 standards, messages and processes as well as the use of XML for business data exchange via the Internet. For many years Sue has contributed actively to eBusiness standardisation work at UK, European and International level. She has been a regular contributor to the work of the World Customs Organisation Data modelling project team and is an approved WCO data model private sector trainer. She is currently the Lead Editor responsible for leading the development of the UN/CEFACT Core Component Library and the Lead Editor of the UN/CEFACT MultiModal Transport data modelling project. She is a co-chair of the UNTDED Joint Maintenance Agency as the UK HoD to the ISO Technical Committee 154 responsible for data element naming and defining for cross-border trade.

 

Recent assignments have included provision of technical support for the data modelling of the EU TAXUD UCC based on the WCO Data Model, EU Cross Industry Invoice Reference Model; provision of the CITES e-Permitting Toolkit to UNEP and mapping XML schema to the WCO data model; development of e-forms and XML subset messages for UNECE and delivery of data modelling and message structure development training courses in many locations including Brussels, Bangkok, Luxembourg and Berlin.