Ms. Burman is founder and co-chair of the PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) Working Group; co-author of Mastering XML (Sybex 1999); a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto; and co-chair of the marketing committee for the ICE (Information Content and Exchange) Authoring Group. Prior to joining Kinecta, Ms. Burman was president and CEO of L A Burman Associates Inc, an XML consulting firm. Directly prior to starting her own company, Ms. Burman was director of worldwide marketing at SoftQuad Inc., and before that, she was the publishing evangelist at Apple Computer. Previously, she held business and technical positions in the local area networking industry.