SCRIBNER

Kenn Scribner and Mark Stiver have considerable experience with distributed systems. Most recently they spent two years developing a commercial product that implemented a SOAP-like XML interface.

Kennard Scribner is a senior systems programmer with the world¿s largest supplier of information services for the legal industry. In addition, he is the founder and President of The EnduraSoft Corporation, a software company specializing in the creation of custom components. Kenn is the author of Sams Teach Yourself ATL Programming in 21 Days, and co-author of MFC Programming Unleashed.

Mark C. Stiver is a Senior Software Engineer and the Technical Lead for a product development group at a major data warehouse company. He has over ten years of experience working on a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and military software development projects. Most recently, Mark completed a two-year effort developing an n-tier, distributed product using XML as the base protocol to integrate Windows desktop, Windows NT Server, and UNIX applications.

Mark Stiver

Kenn Scribner is a full-time consultant specializing in distributed applications, COM, Windows programming, and systems architecture. Kenn also instructs for Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), where he wrote both the XML for Windows Programmers and Web Services courses. He has written or contributed to a number of books, including Understanding SOAP (Sams Publishing), Sams Teach Yourself ATL Programming in 21 Days (Sams Publishing), MFC Programming with Visual C++ Unleashed (Sams Publishing), Sams Teach Yourself DirectX 7 in 21 Days (Sams Publishing), and Professional MFC (Wrox Press).

Mark C. Stiver is a consulting software engineer with the largest news and business online information service, LexisNexis. Mark has over 12 years of distributed application experience in commercial, industrial, and military software development and is the co-author of Understanding SOAP (Sams Publishing). Mark is currently a major contributor to the architecture, design, and development of Web Services for large-scale data warehouse systems.