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Here, I worked on a new implementation of SourceForge. This implementation is written in Python atop TurboGears and Pylons. It uses MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and a great many Python packages. The client-side functionality is JavaScript relying heavily on jQuery.

Slashdot is a popular technology news and discussion site. My job there was to implement modern web UI using client-side browser facilities including JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, and the DOM as well as server-side tools including Perl, the Template Toolkit, MySQL, Apache, and others. I've implemented web features such as dynamic loading of stories, drag-and-drop arrangement for Slashboxes, a dual-thumb slider for setting comment viewing thresholds, dynamic nod/nix menus, auto-completing text entry, remote 'badges' to submit pages to Slashdot, and more.

Trolltech (now The Qt Company) is the maker of Qt. As Evangelist, my primary role was to be a public speaker and educator. I have spoken at open conferences, including FISL, LinuxWorld, SIGGRAPH, LinuxLunacy, OSDW, Microsoft PDC, ADHOC, Gnomedex, and others. I have also spoken at internal conferences for customer companies, including Synopsys, and Roxar. I was on the road as much or more than I was at home. I wrote software built on Qt so that I could understand the problems Qt users face; and continually encouraged the team to support the complete set of C++ features and facilities, including compatibility with the C++ Standard Library and Boost. I interacted directly with the engineering team, with customers, and with Open Source users. I served on external standards committees to represent Trolltech's interests, getting the Linux Standard Base to accept Qt as an industry standard.

Ann Arbor Digital Arts (A2DA) is, principally, a software research and development firm which also provides contract engineering, consulting, and IT support. At A2DA I designed and built the web-based UI for a Department of Education Phase I pilot program bringing to educators and school personnel usable survey results of the substance abuse patterns and practice of their students. I built Palm-based medication reminder software with a UI targeting older adults as part of a NIH SBIR Phase I research grant, no. 1 R43 AG19558-01A2. I served as software consultant on a Phase I Navy STTR research project, no. N03-T004, proposing the development of a new heuristic (the Neighborhood Covering Heuristic, NCH) for the general mixed integer problem in optimization.

In joining mozilla.org staff, in addition to my Netscape engineering tasks, I also took on the tasks of driver, super-reviewer, and technical evangelist. In these roles, particularly the latter two, I became responsible for educating engineers and potential engineers: teaching them the underlying architecture of Mozilla, from the big picture all the way down to rules and techniques to improve their code at the lowest levels. As a technical evangelist, I bring engineering expertise to companies and groups interested in exploiting the Mozilla code-base. I bring them up to speed on the code and on interacting with the community to reach their goals. As a key player in our Mozilla University effort, I have traveled to universities across the country giving technical lectures to CS students and faculty to bring new and bright engineering talent into the Mozilla project, as well as exporting Mozilla's UI building machinery to academia as a framework for use in their own research. My role with mozilla.org continued even beyond my association with Netscape.

I designed and implemented the bulk of Mozilla's XPCOM type-safe and leak resistant object management facilities (note, however, that there is a great deal more to XPCOM than just that machinery). I designed and implemented Mozilla's string library which far surpassed its predecessor in efficiency and flexibility. I served terms as module owner of both XPCOM and Strings; and I was a key resource for other module owners in their architectural work. I was the original architect of the XPToolkit team, which produced XUL, our cross-platform, XML-based, user-interface description language, and related services. I was also the architect for several key tools including MacCVS Pro and the Macintosh (classic) build system.

In 1998, as part of bringing the Netscape browser to Open Source, I first encountered and began using Python. It has been a favorite ever since.

In 1999, AOL bought Netscape. In January of 2001, AOL and Time Warner officially merged.

I was the lead engineer for the Macintosh SDK and a turn-around engineer for the email client.

According to Wikipedia, NetManage went defunct in 2008.

I designed and implemented a user-level scripting language for compiling video effects, such as transitions, within our cross-platform framework. I wrote the bulk of the scripts that made up our development environment. Macromedia sold our project to Apple Computer where it is now known as Final Cut Pro.

In 2005 Adobe acquired Macromedia.

I designed and implemented a persistent store (stochastic locality-optimizing) with a back-end interface allowing OEMs to quickly bring up new devices. PagedTStore was a 30% net speed improvement over extant code. I wrote import/export for the Newton Connection Kit 2.0, including a transaction-oriented database language. My work ran on Mac, PC, and Newton.

I wrote the Grabber, a Macintosh system extension for Arrange, an outliner/idea-processor. The Grabber integrated Arrange data-exchange into other applications, so one could cut and paste into Arrange from any running application, even when Arrange wasn't, itself, running.

I designed and implemented the text system; invented an efficient database compression strategy (generationally-adaptive predictive encoding); made significant contributions to the design of Telescript and to the MagicCAP UI; built a compiler integral to the OS effort; was responsible for security considerations including a protocol for secure communication.

With one other engineer, I wrote the database-engine for a nuclear imaging system.

As the architect of SoundDroid, a large-scale audio post-production tool that was both a UI for NED audio hardware and a database for sounds, directors notes, etc., I designed its internal architecture; designed and implemented a persistent object store around an extent engine; and educated the team in MacApp and C++.

I was one of the principal implementers of FullWrite Professional 1.0 (a full-featured WYSIWYG word processor for the Macintosh) at Ann Arbor, and leader of the tools group for the Mac division at Ashton-Tate after the acquisition. I contributed to the UI design, and much of its implementation; designed and implemented the menu manager and a smart (MVC) dialog manager.