Chris Predeek is is an independent consultant and trainer for Ted Pattison Group who has been working with Office Open XML since 2005. His software development career started in the late 90s as a C++ developer for the windows platform. He's used Microsoft technologies through COM, COM+, and finally to the .NET platform. Recently he's been specializing in Office 2007, SharePoint 2007, and BizTalk 2006.