XML Authoring Panel

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As President of Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., Ms. Harvey has participated with many government and commercial enterprises in planning and executing their migration to structured information. Prior to starting at ECC, Inc., Ms. Harvey worked in Scientific and Engineering Computing at David Taylor Model Basic, NSWC. In her capacity with the Navy she participated in the development of US DoD CALS standards including IETMs, SGML and Internet protocols.

Kevin E. Kelly is a Senior Softwar Engineer with the IBM Corporation working on Software Standards. Kevin is a member of the W3C XForms Working Group as well as the W3C Compound Document Format Working Group. His focus is on evolving open standards based technologies for faster, more efficient standards adoption through model-driven approaches. Before joining IBM, Kevin spent 8 year at Rational Software working on UML modeling and Java technologies.

Paul Antonov is a founder and CEO of Syntext Inc., which was established in 1999. Before that he headed the Engineering/Network Operations at Demos Co., historically the first and by then the largest Russian ISP. Paul was the first Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert in the ex-USSR.

Mr. Waldt provides XML and electronic system/product development support through aXtive Minds, Inc. aXtive Minds focuses on XML solutions for publishing, compliance, legislative & regulatory, and related applications. Dale previously served as an Industry Consultant to OASIS. Mr. Waldt was VP Product Technology at RIA, the tax publishing business unit of the Thomson Corporation where, for 11 years, he led teams in SGML and XML system and product development and was an integral member of the senior management team. In the 1980's, Dale participated system development at the IRS in Washington, DC. Dale co-authored The SGML Implementation Guide (Springer 1995) and was founder and publisher of <TAG> The SGML Newsletter for 11 years. Dale has taught, spoken, and written on SGML/XML and related standards and technology worldwide for many years.

Altova's Ted Henry spent the past four years developing XML-based content management solutions for government, life science, and petroleum industries. Possessing a strong interest in Human Factors research and structured authoring, Ted has specialized in marrying XML with innovative Information Architecture and navigation systems development.Ted brings over 11 years industry experience in various development, marketing, and project management roles, and holds a BA in English, a diploma in Software Development, and a MS in Project Management.

Lisa Gillispie provides technical sales support as a Senior Applications Engineer for Arbortext products at Parametric Technology Corporation. Lisa has spent her entire 25 year career involved in publishing, first on the customer side as a graphic book designer for Gallaudet University, where she was responsible for book design, production and print procurement at the University Press and then segued into the technical side of the world after being inspired by a course at George Washington University. For those who can remember it, she worked as an onsite system installer and trainer for Compugraphic Corporation on Quadex typesetting products. She worked as a sales support specialist and project manager at Xyvision for more than 10 years, and moved on to Xerox, where she was involved in selling and supporting Astoria content management systems. She has been at Arbortext for five years. She is an amateur watercolorist and enjoys contributing art to the poster display at XML shows.

Alex Milowski has been involved in the development of XML and SGML technologies since 1990 - starting with the development of SGML systems for producing EDGAR filings for the SEC. He was involved with the development of XML from the very start and participated on the W3C's committees for XSL and XML Schemas as well as many others. He's the author the of W3C Note on XML Messaging and co-author of W3C Note on SOX (Schema for Object-oriented XML). In 1995 he founded a company called Copernican Solutions--which developed SGML and XML technologies for software systems--and was later acquired, via Veo Systems, by Commerce One. Most recently, he was CTO for Markup Technology, a developer of XML pipelining technology. Currently, he is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Document Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and consults on applications of XML.

David is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. David has over twenty years experience in the computer systems and programming industry. After spending ten years in the hardware and operating system fields at Raytheon Co. and Computervision Corp. he moved into the publishing field providing five years of system and platform support for Xyvision Inc. on their high-end composition and document management products. Over the next five years David had worked for a document management product company as a developer and engineering manager. Since 1999 David has been with DMSi as a publishing and document management systems consultant. The areas of expertise that have been focused on in the document management area are in database design and support of Oracle and in workflow management systems. In publishing David has focused on the overall system design from hardware platform and application selection to output devices. His unique mix of operating system, database, workflow and publishing application experience positions David to lead DMSi's consulting efforts.

Paul Prescod is an implementor of XML-based systems, co-author of the XML Handbook, author of numerous articles on XML and contributor to open source XML tools.