Andrew Sheppard is the publisher of two online electronic magazines about Skype: Elpis's Skype Power User magazine (ISSN 1747-8421) (www.elpispublishing.com) and Elpis's Skype API Developer magazine (ISSN 1747-843X). After earning a B.Sc. (Hons.) in astrophysics at the University College Cardiff (UK), Andrew went on to earn an M.Sc. in astronomical technology at Edinburgh University (UK) and an M.B.A. in business administration at the London Business School (UK). He then went on work as a scientific researcher at Oxford University, designing and building space instrumentation for satellites and probes, among them, UARS (the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite).
After leaving the academic community, he went on to become a software developer, primarily in the financial sector, and later became vice president at Bankers Trust Company in London, New York, and Tokyo. Andrew now makes his living writing software, books, and magazine articles, and he blogs about Skype on Skype.com and Skypejournal.com.