Bryan Schnabel grew up in Detroit Michigan, but now lives in Portland Oregon. Bryan is a manager of a web team at a high tech company. Bryan teaches DITA XML programming and localization courses at Portland State University. Bryan is a musician and has an album out called Waves. At the time of this writing he is working on his second album. When Bryan is not managing his web team, teaching college classes, or creating music, he loves to ski and spend time with his family.