Ahmet Gurcan completed his BSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Istanbul Techical University in 1997, and M.A.Sc. in the same field at University of British Columbia in 2000. While he was pursuing his Master’s Degree, he also worked as a research and teaching assistant. His topics of interest were real-time operating systems at that time, and he built a dual-processor real-time system mainly used to control machines and robots. Since his graduation, he has been working for a Vancouver based software company, Schemasoft, a leader in file converters and XML technologies and SVG. Ahmet is also an expert on PDF file format