Michael Van Riper has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MIT. Van has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. He was a core member of the engineering team at Adobe that built the award winning Adobe PageMill web authoring program. Since 1999, he has focused on developing web applications in Java. He is Chief Web Technologist at Krillion in Mountain View, California. He is also the founder and co-leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG and the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group.