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Editorial Board Members

• Deb Boczulak XyEnterprise
• Robin Cover OASIS
• Don Day IBM
• Bob Doyle
• Bruce Esrig
  
• Kay Ethier Bright Path Solutions
• JoAnn Hackos Comtech Services, Inc.
• Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc.
• Michael Priestley IBM Canada
• Amber Swope JustSystems
• Su-Laine Yeo JustSystems
  

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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.

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 Infocenter and edits a DITA Newsletter. My blog.

Don Day is Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, project lead for the DITA Open Toolkit, is IBM's Lead DITA Architect, and has represented IBM on the W3C XSL and CSS Working Groups. See Don's Daylights blog!

Bruce Esrig is an Information Architect. He contributed specification language during the release of DITA 1.0 and built consensus on several issues during the development of DITA 1.1. His most recent work is in content design and corporate web site design.

Kay Ethier 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.

Su-Laine Yeo is an Interaction Design Specialist at JustSystems, where she is responsible for analyzing customer requirements and continually improving the usability of the XMetaL product family. She has delivered numerous conference presentations, articles, and courses on DITA.