Gary Cornelius began working in the publishing industry in 1992, following some early success as a student managing the production of a youth paper for the European Parliament.
In 1993-1995 he completed an industrial apprenticeship based around digital imaging, where he experienced a wide range of positive changes brought about by computerisation. In 1996-1999 he worked in Information Technology (IT) on a number of large scale consumer publishing projects, automating high quality PDF output from large databases and image repositories for Trader Media Group and various TV listings publications.
In 2000-2003 he worked in software development as a programmer at Future Publishing Plc in their Internet Services research department on a project to unify publishing processes using XML. Since early 2004 he has worked for CSW Group Ltd. as technical consultant specializing in XML, providing hands-on XML training at a series of XML Summer schools and training events in the UK and presenting at XML related conferences. He also is an active member of OASIS and participates in several standards committees.



