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Editorial Board Members

• Deb Boczulak XyEnterprise
• Robin Cover OASIS
• Don Day IBM
• Bob Doyle skyBuilders
• Kristen James Eberlein
• Bruce Esrig
• Kay Whatley (Ethier) Bright Path Solutions
• JoAnn Hackos Comtech Services, Inc.
• Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc.
• Michael Priestley IBM Canada
• Amber Swope JustSystems
• Gershon Joseph Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Deb Boczulak is the Product Manager for XyEnterprise’s Content Management product line, including Contenta and Contenta DITA. Ms. Boczulak joined XyEnterprise in 2000, bringing a wealth of experience in technical support, product introductions, upgrades and software implementations. Prior to XyEnterprise, she held several supervisory and management positions in Technical Support at SunGard Financial Systems.

Robin Cover is Editor of the Cover Pages web site and XML.org Daily Newslink. References for DITA are included within the Cover Pages. He also advises the OASIS Technical Services Department on web architecture issues.

Don Day is Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, chair of IBM's DITA Architect's board, and has represented IBM on the W3C XSL and CSS Working Groups. See Don's Daylights blog and his Resources page for the Open Toolkit.

Bob Doyle is CEO of skyBuilders.com, the organizer of the Boston DITA Users Group, and developer of the international DITA Users membership organization, providing web-based tools for writers getting started with DITA. He publishes the DITA specifications as an Eclipse Help DITA Infocenter and edits a DITA Newsletter. Bob's other DITA support sites include DITA Blog, DITA News, DITA Tutor, and DITA Wiki. He writes regularly on structured publishing at EContent Magazine. He has a personal blog and a blog on DITA.XML.org.

Kristen James Eberlein is an information architect and an individual member of OASIS and the DITA Technical Committee. Her interests include DITA training and best practices, build automation, and strategies for helping writers make the transition from book to topic-based writing. She has presented at several conferences on such topics as DITA short descriptions, IBM Task Modeler, and prototyping online information.

Bruce Esrig is an Information Architect and Interaction Designer. He contributed specification language during the release of DITA 1.0 and built consensus on several issues during the development of DITA 1.1. He contributed a taxonomy to seed the tagging mechanism on dita.xml.org.

Kay (Ethier) Whatley is Senior Trainer and Consultant for Bright Path Solutions. Her teaching and consulting experience includes XML and related technologies, DITA, structured authoring, content management, FrameMaker, and Structured FrameMaker. She has authored several books on publishing technologies (XML Weekend Crash Course, XML and FrameMaker, Advanced FrameMaker, XML Problem-Design-Solution), as well as a Korean martial arts book.

JoAnn Hackos is co-chair of the OASIS DITA Editorial and founding member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. She is president of Comtech Services, Inc. and executive director of The Center for Information-Development Management. She has been instrumental in promoting DITA with the information-development community worldwide.

Scott Prentice is the President of Leximation, Inc., and focuses on providing tools and solutions for print and online publishing.

Michael Priestley is co-editor of the DITA Specification, and IBM's representative on the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. He is one of DITA's original architects at IBM, and is an experienced information architect and XML architect . He is currently coordinating taxonomy initiatives across several IBM communities. You can read his blog at http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

Amber Swope is a Principal Consultant for JustSystems in the Content Lifecycle Solutions practice. Amber has led and supported DITA migration and implementation for projects at IBM. She has presented at industry conferences and published articles on successfully implementing DITA.

Gershon Joseph in a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, working as a consultant in the Doc Tools team that supports Cisco's technical documentation groups. Gershon has successfully implemented several DITA-based XML and CMS solutions. Gershon represents Cisco on numerous OASIS DITA technical committees, and is a member of the OASIS DocBook technical committee.