Ferass is in charge of CommonLook’s product research and development with overall responsibility for the specification, architecture and development of CommonLook’s market leading products. Ferass represents Canada at ISO TC 171 meetings on the ISO 14289 (PDF/UA), ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 19005 (PDF/A) Committees and is the Chair of the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on TC 171 SC2. Ferass holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Carleton University specializing in the performance analysis of distributed systems.