Scott Bischke is a BS, MS chemical engineer who has worked as an engineering researcher at three national laboratories (NBS [now NIST], Sandia, and Los Alamos). He worked for ~11 years as lead environmental engineer for the wafer fabrication and plating areas of HP's Corvallis Inkjet Business Unit. Scott authored or co-authored numerous technical papers, and two environmental impact statements. He has been lead author on successful scientific and engineering proposals totaling multiple-millions of dollars. Scott has edited numerous proposals, book chapters, and technical papers, plus published three popular press books and numerous popular press articles. He is a proficient HTML programmer with numerous websites to his credit, including several Drupal and .NET sites. Scott is also an accomplished photographer, loves to ski and hike, but willingly admits he lives to fly fish.

Katie Gibson has written roughly a million lines of .NET code over the past ten years. She has degrees in electrical engineering (BS) and computer science (MS). Following summer work for Rockwell International, Kate spent ~15 years working for Hewlett-Packard, initially as a hardware engineer, later as a software engineer, and finally as a supervisory systems/control/automation software engineer. Since leaving HP in 1999, Kate has consulted in computer science (projects in C++, Java, C#.NET, VB.NET, and ASP.NET) for numerous companies across the USA. When she's not pounding the keys, Kate enjoys long distance hiking, telemark skiing, biking, reading, and curling up next to the fire with Tigger the cat.