LegisWeb is led by a dynamic, entrepreneurial management team with a track record of developing innovative technologies. By delivering valued products and services to clients at all levels of the legislature, LegisWeb is becoming a recognized and trusted name. Having served in leadership roles in technology companies for more than 15 years, our leadership team is dedicated to delivering information search and management solutions that solve real-world problems for government, business and the public.

• Brad Chang, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
• Grant Vergottini, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer
• Patrick Andries, Senior Technologist
• François Yergeau, Senior Technologist
• Kevin Popovic, Director of Communications

Brad Chang, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
Bradlee Chang is a principal and founder of Xcential with more than 25 years of experience in the software industry. Upon graduating with Honors from U.C. Berkeley ( Electrical Engineering / Computer Science) Bradlee began in Xerox’s Advanced Systems Group developing new capabilities for next generation office systems. After a series of technical and managerial positions, Bradlee proposed the successful spinout of Chrystal Software into an independent company based on its XML content management technology.  After the sale of Chrystal Software, Bradlee co-founded Xcential, leveraging his knowledge and experience to build legislative systems.

Since 2001 Bradlee has been hands-on in all phases of development for the State of California Legislative Counsel Bureau.  From data analysis and system design, to deployment and support, Bradlee's tireless commitment has been instrumental to the project's success.

Education:

• Graduated University of California, Berkeley
• BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981
• Graduated Cum Laude, with departmental honors and Tau Beta Pi honors

Presentations:

• Speaker: “XML and Electronic Commerce” Electronic Partnership                         
• Speaker: “Workflow and Document Management”, Documentation                                                
• Speaker:  “How to get the Most from Your Document Management System”                      
• SGML ’95 Session Chair: “Interoperability & Standards in Document Management”            

LegisWeb Highlights:

• Co-founded Xcential
• Responsible for the business model and operational management of the company
• Senior Consultant to the State of California’s Legislative Data Center
• Developed architecture and designs for a major new legislative drafting system, including authoring, publishing, content management, and conversion
• Provides ongoing consulting through the development, completion, deployment and support of the system deployed to hundreds of users who have drafted thousands of bills and amendments

Grant Vergottini, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer
Grant Vergottini has over 20 years of experience as a designer in the software industry. Upon graduating with Honors with a Bachelor’s Degree (Electrical Engineering) Grant began his career as a Design Engineer at the Boeing Company supporting the automation of Boeing’s design processes. An opportunity at Mentor Graphics provided experiences including Software Architecting, Product Management, Field Consulting, Sales Project Management, and Program Management around Mentor’s data and workflow management product lines. In 1997, Grant founded Genedax, developing team and data management applications for electronic design automation using the latest Java, COM, and Internet technologies. In 1999, Grant contracted with Homestore.com to redesign and rebuild their newly acquired Homebuilder.com website. Grant then joined Chrystal Software as Director of Applications focusing on the application of XML technologies. After leaving Chrystal, Grant co-founded Xcential to develop a legislative authoring system for the State of California.

Education:

• Graduated Cleveland State University
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1985
• Graduated Cum Laude

•  "Designing on Internet Time", Grant Vergottini & David Alles, January 1997, Electronic Design Magazine, Penton Media Inc.

LegisWeb Highlights:

• Developed XML schema and system architecture for multi-tier web-based authoring system for drafting and amending all California legislation.
• Designed a single XML schema encompassed all 21 document types.
• Integrated the system architecture and schema with existing systems and commercial tools.
• Successfully developed XMetaL-based drafting editor for all document types. System deployed on time for the 2005 Legislative Session. During the initial deployment, a record number of bills were successfully drafted and introduced.
• Worked with attorneys and Legislative Counsel Bureau staff to refine business processes including adapting and improving the amending process to work within an XML authoring system.

Patrick Andries, Senior Technologist
Patrick brings over 19 years of experience in successful technical development. He has architect ed the middleware used by a world-leading provider of electronic financial service solutions in the electronic commerce marketplace. He also architected and successfully lead the first internationalization of Internet tools (browser, e-mailer, HTML editor) implementing the relevant W3C standards. Patrick implemented a new CRM electronic document management solution for multimedia giant Bertelsmann Germany.

Education:

• Master in Computer Science (“deuxième licence”) from l’Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).
• Dissertation Title: Conception et analyse d'une interface graphique pour automates transitionnels (“Design and analysis of a graphical interface for transitional automata”).   

Activities:

• Specialist member of the Unicode Consortium
• Author of a book on Unicode (to be published in 2008
• Member of the Canadian Standard Working group part of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
• Translator for ISO standards ISO 10646 (Unicode) and ISO 15924 (World Scripts).
• Coordinator for the French translation of the XML 1.0 standard
• Consultant on internationalization issues for different major institutions and government institutions.

LegisWeb Highlights:

• Architected, designed and developed an enterprise-wide publishing service responsible for the publication and rendering of all bills and laws, as well as other multi-format documents used by legislative houses.
• Develops custom PostScript and OpenType fonts for special characters used by the legislature.
• Architected, designed and developed the conversion of years of existing legislative documents to XML and back during the multi-year transition period as legacy systems are being redesigned and slowly retired.
• Daily File Generation.

François Yergeau, Senior Technologist
François Yergeau began his has worked in the field of information technology since 1994, from Technology Advisor to Consultant Director of Technology.  He was instrumental in launching, designing, specifying and implementing the acclaimed Tango Web Browser from Alis Technologies .  After the acquisition of a translation company by Alis, he became Director responsible for the internationalization products and for the technology infrastructure of Alis’ Globalization unit. Over these years, François has performed very diverse activities, from programming to managing software design and architecture, public relations, sales support, project management, product management, marketing activities and recruiting.

He is active in standardization (W3C, ISO, IETF, Unicode), especially Web-related, He is the Editor or Author of four Internet RFCs and as Co-Editor of the W3C’s XML 1.0 and XML 1.1 specifications and of the Character Model for the World Wide Web. He has spoken around the world and is a member of the Board of Directors of CIDIF and of the Conference Board of the International Unicode Conference series. He performed published research under both personal and team grants and led a research team.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Physics, Université Laval, 1985
• B.Sc. in Physics, Université Laval, 1981

Publications:

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, T. Bray, J. Paoli, C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, E. Maler, F. Yergeau and J. Cowan, W3C Recommendation, February 2004.
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition), T. Bray, J. Paoli, C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, E. Maler and F. Yergeau, W3C Recommendation, February 2004.
• FAQ: When to use language negotiation, F. Yergeau, W3C Internationalization FAQ, February 2004.
• UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646, F. Yergeau, STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003.
• Character Model for the World Wide Web, M.J. Dürst, F. Yergeau, M. Wolf, A. Freytag, T. Texin and R. Ishida, W3C Recommendation.
• How Unicode is conquering the world, F. Yergeau, in LISA Newsletter Volume 10 Nº 3, August 2001. ISSN 1420-3693.
• UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646, P. Hoffman and F. Yergeau, RFC 2781, February 2000.
• Multilinguisme sur Internet : la technique est-elle au point ?, in Objectif volume 1 nº 2, summer 2000. ISSN 1563-3160.
• UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646, F. Yergeau, RFC 2279, January 1998.
• Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language, F. Yergeau, G.T. Nicol, G. Adams and M. Dürst, RFC 2070, January 1997.
• UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646, F. Yergeau, RFC 2044, October 1996.
• Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language, F. Yergeau, G.T. Nicol, G. Adams and M. Dürst, World Wide Web J., 2, 191-218, 1996.
• Quelques pistes pour augmenter la présence du français sur Internet, F. Yergeau, in Actes de la Biennale de la langue française, 1995.
• Des outils et des hommes, F. Yergeau, in Francisation en marche, revue de l’Office de la langue française, 1995.
• Augmenter la présence du français sur l’Internet : quarante pistes, P.Andries and F. Yergeau.
• Les accents français et Usenet, F. Yergeau, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) article maintained and published in selected Usenet newsgroups from 1993 to 1995.

Presentations:

• PanAfrican Localisation Workshop, Casablanca, Morocco, June 2005
• LexiPraxi 2000, Paris, France, December 2000
• Fédération de l’informatique du Québec, Laval, Canada, October 2000
• International Summit on Inforoutes and Multimedia of the International Federation of Multimedia Associations (FIAM), Montréal, Canada, September 1999
• 7e journée-rencontre WebÉducation, Québec & Montréal, Canada, June 1999
• DIRO, Université de Montréal, Canada, February 1998
• The American University of Beirut, Lebanon, November 1997
• The Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center, Cairo, Egypt, November 1997
• 15th National Computer Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, November 1997
• Marché International Multimédia (MIM), Montréal, Canada, May 1997
• Cainet'97, Cairo, Egypt, April 1997
• 2nd International Symposium on Multilingual Information Processing, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1997
• Winter internationalisation symposium, Sevilla, November 1996
• Colloque Aristote, École Polytechnique, Paris, France, October 1996
• Internationalization Workshop, Fifth World Wide Web Conference (WWW’5), Paris, France, April 1996
• New-York University, NY, USA, February 1996
• Biennale de la langue française, Bucharest, Romania, August 1995
• Net95, Ottawa, Canada, June 1995

LegisWeb Highlights:

• Development and maintenance of XML-based publishing system
• Analysis of various publications
• Schema Design for History Publishing System
• Daily File Generation

Kevin Popovic, Director of Communications
Since 1982, Kevin's professional experience has been broad in scope but all relative to the field of communications. Titles he has held through his career include Graphic Designer, Computer Consultant, DJ, Voice-Over Talent, Assistant Producer (Video/Event Production), Art Director (Advertising Agency), Creative Director (Trade Show Group), and Creative Director (Advertising Agency), Creative Consultant and today, Director of Communications. Kevin is responsible for LegisWeb Branding, Advertising, Marketing, Internet Development and Public Relations.

In addition to his role within LegisWeb, Kevin is both Developer and Instructor of educational courseware relative to communications and technology, teaching others process, skill sets, and technique. He has taught at the trade school, college and university level, including the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), Howard Community College / Business Training Center (Columbia, MD), and Duquesne University / Multimedia Technology Program (Pittsburgh, PA) where he is an Adjunct Professor teaching undergraduate, graduate and continuing education level courses, as well as Corporate Training

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA Communications / Psychology (1987).
• Masters of Science, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA Multimedia Technology (2000).
• Ed. D., Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA Instructional Technology (expected completion 2008).

Publications:

• Carter, David E. (2002). “American Corporate Identity 2003.” (pp. 26-27, 32-33, 295, 307, 309). New York, NY. HarperCollins Publishers.
• Carter, David E. (1998). “American Corporate Identity/13.” (pp. TBD). New York, NY. Art Direction Book Co.
• Carter, David E. (1995). “American Corporate Identity/10.” (pp. 129, 256, 257). New York, NY. Art Direction Book Co.
• Carter, David E. (1994). “American Corporate Identity/9.” (pp. 119, 257). New York, NY. Art Direction Book Co.

Honors:

• (2005-2006) Chairman, Board of Advisors, Robert Morris University, School of Business, Marketing / Management Program, Pittsburgh, PA.
• (2005-2006) Board of Advisors, United Cerebral Palsy, Pittsburgh, PA.
• (2003-2005) Board of Advisors, Pittsburgh Technical Institute, Graphic Design Program, Pittsburgh, PA.
• (2005) Panelist, “Communications Roundtable”, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA
• (2005) Guest Lecturer, Graduate Advertising Program, Point Park College, Pittsburgh, PA
• (2005) Panelist, “Super Bowl of Commercials”, American Marketing Association, Pittsburgh, PA
• (2004) “Career Days”, School of Design, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
• (2003) “Critique Night”, American Institute of Graphic Artists, Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA.
• (2003) American Advertising Federation / Buffalo Chapter, American Advertising Awards (ADDY’s) Judge, Buffalo, NY.
• (2003) “Career Days”, School of Design, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• (2003) “Meet the Marketing Professionals Night”, American Marketing Association / Duquesne University Chapter, Pittsburgh, PA.