About the Reviewers
Jack Armstrong spent over 40 years in the Silicon Valley computer industry as a researcher, programmer, analyst, designer, and network architect. At Stanford Research Institute he worked in a large scale scientific computing, artificial intelligence and robotics, and the development of ArpaNet, predecessor to the Internet. At Hewlett-Packard's Central Research Labs and Computer Division, he participated in the design of the HP3000 and the development of HTML, serving on HTML standards committees. After years of successfully operating a software and consulting partnership and 10 years with DHL as Manager of Infrastructure Research and Development and later as Principal Architect, he is now semi-retired, developing unique web sites for local and global clients and participating in development, testing, and standard groups to extend the use of XML and in particular, SVG on the Web. When away from computers, he can be found skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California as often as possible.
Richard Carter is the Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (http://www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the North East of England, working with clients including Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.
Richard is the author of MediaWiki Skins Design, Magento 1.3 Themes Design, and Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook, and previously reviewed MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide.
He blogs at http://www.earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets nonsense at http://twitter.com/RichardCarter.
Noreen McMahan lives in Austin, Texas, where she works for Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. as a member of their Single-Source Documentation System (SSDS) team. She is the SSDS training lead, providing both classroom and written instruction in the use of DITA XML, the Freescale component content management system (CCMS), and the tools required for SSDS content development, including Inkscape. She also participates in SSDS software regression testing and user acceptance testing, which are both activities that feed the training.
For several years, Noreen worked as an information developer and editor at Freescale Semiconductor. At one point, she supervised the work of an 8-person editing team. Noreen has over 20 years of experience drawing engineering diagrams for a variety of document types. She is among the early adopters charged with researching scalable vector graphics (SVG) and promulgating the use of Inkscape at Freescale Semiconductor.
Noreen has lived in Austin since she moved there as a graduate student to attend the University of Texas, where she earned her Ph.D. in English and taught technical writing. Noreen has a 25-year old son, Eric Garrison, and two cats, Xena and Gabrielle.
Vic Perez is a guy that loves art. His experience includes painting with oils and water colors, drawing with inks, pencils and prisma colors. He has created a few custom indoor and outdoor painted wall murals, numerous logos, and web designs.