The Development Team Richard Stoliar [ richie@richiesworld.net ] Currently the only developer and primary designer of POM, Richard Stoliar is a graduate of the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, majoring in Software Engineering principles and Object Oriented Design, and minoring in Artificial Intelligence. From 1994 until late 2003, he was an administrator, coder and story designer of Eternal Visions, a popular circle based MUD. He has worked professionally in Application development and Spatial System development, including mobile location based services with third generation telecommunication networks, web based location based services and self learning data validation and parsing utilities. He has experience with C, C++, Java, PHP, ASP, the .NET framework including ASP.NET, and Python, as well as several DBMS including PostGre SQL and MySQL. He also enjoys the opportunity to blow his own trumpet.