Tim Bray has been in the software profession since 1981. In 1987 he managed the New Oxford English Dictionary Project. In 1989 he co-founded Open Text Corporation. In 1995 he built one of the first popular commercial Web Search Engines. In 1996-99, as an Invited Expert at the W3C, he co-invented XML and XML Namespaces. He is the author of Bonnie, a filesystem benchmark widely used in the Linux community and Lark, the world's first conformant XML processor. In 1999 he founded Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. and is currently employed there. He also serves on the W3C Technical Architecture Group.