About the Authors

Tom Pender is currently a teacher and mentor for UML courses offered through Sun Microsystems and DigitalThink, Inc. Tom has worked as a software engineer for more than 20 years in a wide variety of industries. He has worked in just about every position within software development from programmer to manager. His extensive and diverse experience brings the real world into the classroom, where he has spent the past six very successful years teaching analysis and design using UML. He has authored four online courses about UML through DigitalThink, Inc. (www.digitalthink.com/) and the book UML Weekend Crash Course, which has been enthusiastically praised as a very practical, approachable, and comprehensive introduction to UML. When not standing on the UML soapbox, Tom works with orphanages in Romania and with challenged families in his community, trains his dogs, and periodically indulges in his hobby of collecting old comic books. Tom can be reached at tom@pender.com or via the Wiley Web site, www.wiley.com/compbooks/pender.