Michael Carey received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1983. From 1983-1995 he was on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he conducted research on a variety of database system architecture and performance issues. In 1995, Mike moved to IBM Research, where he worked on data integration, DB2 UDB, and XML query technologies. In 2001-2002, he led an e-commerce infrastructure team at Propel, a small internet startup. Mike joined BEA Systems in late 2001, and since then he has been working on the XML data handling and XQuery related aspects of BEA's WebLogic Integration 8.1 and Liquid Data for WebLogic products. He is a Fellow of the ACM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.