2. Who Am I, and How Did I Get Here?
I'm an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS)
I'm a refugee from Silicon Valley - during the 1990s I founded or co-founded three companies that did electronic publishing, XML technology for e-commerce, B2B procurement and marketplaces
Came to Berkeley in January 2002 and have been working to systematize the various threads of XML and web services architecture, document analysis, data modeling, patterns and reuse into a discipline of Document Engineering
At SIMS I teach several courses, not just to "students" but to IT professionals
We have established the Center for Document Engineering as a focal point, resource repository, technology transfer organization