Yuri Khramov has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry; he is involved in XML and other WEB technologies for more than 5 years. He is one of the founding partners of SchemaSoft. Prior to that, he worked at Paradigm Development Corp. in Vancouver, Canada Graphica Corp. in Tokyo, and several industrial and Academic institutions in Moscow. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Moscow Management Institute. Yuri is a co-director of Vancouver XML Developers Association.