Skills:

• Recently used programming languages: Python, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, Ruby, C++, Perl, Java.
• Less recently used languages: C, Intel assembly language (including SIMD instructions), JLex and CUP (Lex and YACC for Java), Visual Basic and QBasic, Pascal.
• Technologies: Django, Wordpress, Pylons, SQLAlchemy, Ruby on Rails, Greasemonkey, GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat), Qt and PyQt, Gtk, CGI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HTML, Parse::RecDescent, X11, AWT
• Software licensing: Code audits, derivative works, GPL and LGPL application.
• Other skills: Technical writing and editing, image manipulation with GIMP, photography, lecturing and teaching.

Employment:

OpenPlans (formerly The Open Planning Project)    New York, NY       September, 2006 - present
Software Engineer:

• Develop multimodal trip planner
• Developed software to track New York City buses
• Design and implement security strategies
• Interview developers
• Contribute to free software projects that TOPP depends on
• Developeded web-based collaboration platform using Zope and Pylons
• Developed multi-modal transit trip planner

Free Software Foundation     Boston, MA       November, 2001 - September 2006
Free Software Licensing Guru and GPL Compliance Engineer:

• Develop licensing strategy
• Lecture about Free Software licensing
• Answer Free Software licensing questions
• Investigate Free Software licensing violations
• Write software to check copyright assignments
• Write new versions of GNU GPL and LGPL

i-site, inc     Philadelphia, PA       July, 2000 - November 2001
Programmer:

• Designed and program web applications in Perl.
• Administered servers running Red Hat Linux.
• Built dynamic web pages from designs.

Free Software Work:

• Converted NYC bus schedules to GTFS
• SQLObject committer
• Inkscape committer
• Wrote a RSS aggregator
• Answered licensing questions on behalf of the Free Software Foundation.
• Lectured about Free Software in seven countries.
• Contributed sprite compression code to Worldforge.
• Contributed modules to the Art Of Illusion 3d modeller and renderer.
• Wrote several WindowMaker Dock applets.
• Contributed patches and bug reports to numerous projects, including Wordpress, Gentoo, Dreamwidth, Django, and more.

Education:

• Reed College, Portland, OR, Fall 1998 - Spring 2000
• Friends Select School, Philadelphia, PA, 1998

Hobbies:

Building puzzles, cooking, science fiction and fantasy, travel, photography, Scrabble, glassblowing