Eliot is a long-time contributor to the XML and SGML community, with 20 years of experience in industrial-strength generic markup applications. He is a founding member of the XML Working Group, a co-editor of the HyTime standard (ISO 10744), and a member of the XSL Working Group. For the last 10 years (the last 6 with ISOGEN International) Eliot has worked as an information systems consultant specializing in developing standards-based systems for managing documents with a focus on technical documentation and publishing systems. For the first 10 years of his career, Eliot was a technical writer for IBM's Networking Systems Division, developing diagnosis and repair manuals for a product with no user interface that never failed in operation. Eliot speaks and writes frequently on XML and related subjects. Eliot is a devoted husband and dog owner who enjoys snowboarding and body boarding on those rare occasions when he finds himself at the coast or in the mountains.