Denise Draper

Denise Draper is Chief Technology Officer for Nimble Technology, developer of an XML-based data integration platform for web services. Denise is the designer and visionary behind the development of the product and holds several patents for its XML-based technology. Prior to joining Nimble in 1999, Denise was the lead researcher for several research projects at Rockwell's Palo Alto Research Lab. She earned her B.S. degree in Engineering from Caltech, followed by a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Denise is an editor of the working draft of XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics [XQ-FS].