Kevin Ruse is the principal of Kevin Ruse and Associates Inc. a web and print design and consulting firm based in Santa Clara, California. Kevin has been a trainer in Web Development and graphic design in a variety of environments including DeAnza Community College and the University of California Santa Cruz. Kevin has also taught the staff and faculty at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

Kevin is an Adobe Certified Instructor and a Certified Training Partner for the Altova Suite of XML software and the Oxygen XML Editor. He currently teaches the following languages and software: Flex, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Quark XPress, JavaScript, ActionScript, MXML, XML, XSLT, DTD/Schema, ColdFusion, HTML, XHTML and CSS.

When he is not training, consulting or working on development projects Kevin is a technical editor for Technical publishers including Pearson and Apress. Kevin is the author of Web Standards Design Guide, a college textbook used as a primer to Web Standards for Web Design. Kevin is an enthusiastic instructor who maintains a strong belief that with patience, determination and guidance all individuals can reach their maximum potential.