Ned Hayes is a Senior Program Manager at Corel Corporation within the XML Content Solutions group. Prior to Corel's acquisition of SoftQuad, he worked as part of SoftQuad's XMetaL product team. Ned was formerly the Product Development Manager for Adobe Systems' New Ventures "IdeaStudio" team where he investigated structured authoring, multi-channel publishing, and VoiceXML solutions. He was also instrumental in shipping Adobe's GoLive 6 and GoLive Web Workgroup Server. Before joining the software industry, Ned worked as a Web development manager, a journalist, an editor, and a university instructor. He has a Masters degree in English Literature.