Mike holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He has worked in parallel computing (languages and compilers) research at the NASA Langley Research Center and served on the Computer Science faculty at Hampton University in Virginia. Mike has been working with XML and related standards since 1999, and has been involved with the development of XML vocabulary and Schema specifications. In addition to XML technologies in general, his current interests also include web services, web ontology, and intelligent agents. Mike has been with MITRE, a not-for-profit corporation which manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), since 1995. While at MITRE, he has focused on the area of information interoperability. Mike has been a key participant in an international forum for developing XML capabilities to support military information exchange in Joint and Coalition environments. In addition, he has recently begun participation in MITRE research investigating the application of Semantic Web technologies to information search and retrieval for military environments.