Joni Brennan

Joni Brennan is finishing her B.A. studies of Information Technology and Informatics, at Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information and Library Sciences (SCILS) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has focused her study on topics including: Information Visualization, Social Informatics and Web Development. She is currently interning for the IEEE-ISTO, in a position in which she provides Technical and Communicational support for the VoiceXML Forum, the VoiceXML Review and the VoiceXML Forum Education Committee.

Dave Burke

Dave Burke is Chief Architect at Voxpilot. He has in-depth experience in design and implementation of solutions incorporating VoiceXML and related specifications. Dave is a co-founder of Voxpilot and leads all aspects of the technology effort. Dave studied Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin, Ireland, received a Masters of Engineering Science degree in Biomedical Engineering, and is currently concluding a PhD in dynamical systems modeling of brain electrical activity.

Jonathan Engelsma

Jonathan Engelsma wrote his first voice-enabled application in 1995 when he worked in Motorola's Intelligent Network organization. He currently works at Motorola on Motorola's VoiceXML interpreter. Dr. Engelsma also serves as Editor-in-Chief for the VoiceXML Review e-zine and chairs the VoiceXML Forum's Education Committee. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at Michigan State University. Motorola is a founding member (Sponsor) of the VoiceXML Forum.

Rob Marchand

Rob Marchand is Director of Products and Services Development for VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. Rob has been with VoiceGenie Technologies since 1999, and has worked in advanced computing and telecommunications since 1985. At VoiceGenie, Rob is responsible for the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop (http://developer.voicegenie.com), and new products and services development. Rob is a member of the VoiceXML Education Committee, and of USENIX and SAGE, and a regular contributor to SANS. VoiceGenie is a Promoter Member of the VoiceXML Forum.

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Matt Oshry

Matt Oshry is a regular columnist for the Speak & Listen column in the VoiceXML Review. Matt is currently the Content Manager at Tellme Networks. Previously, Matt spent seven years at Microsoft writing technical documentation.

Claudia Romellini

Claudia Romellini received her degree in Computer Science from the University of Torino. In 1988 she joined CSELT (Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni of Telecom Italia). Where her working experiences have been in the areas of WEB application development applied to document management systems and Information Retrieval engines. She also managed several projects either in the domestic market and in the international cooperation contextIn 2000 she took the responsibility of HTML voice browser integration in Loquendo and of specific voice service development projects. Today she is currently responsible of the development of tools supporting all Loquendo products, especially concerning VXML support. She is also responsible of Loquendo Training programs and of Loquendo Café' WEB site, a site offering free resources for the VXML developer comunity.

Rakesh Tailor

Rakesh Tailor graduated from the University of Waterloo, which is located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, with a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering. At VoiceGenie, Rakesh has managed the design, development and deployment of various developer tools including the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop (http://developer.voicegenie.com), SpeechGenie Workshop (http://www.speechgenie.com) as well as VoiceGenie's VoiceXML development environment, GenieIDE. Currently, Rakesh is leading VoiceGenie's efforts in designing and developing the next generation of OA&M tools for VoiceGenie's industry leading VoiceXML Platform.

David L. Thomson

David Thomson has worked 18 years in speech compression, recognition, and synthesis and chairs the VoiceXML Tools Committee. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brigham Young University in 1983. He received his MSEE, also from BYU, and joined AT&T Bell Labs (later Lucent) in 1984. He received a Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Honorable Mention in 1994. He has eight U.S. patents and has authored or coauthored over 20 technical papers.