EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, Kingston RI, BA in Linguistics (2005)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES, INC. Cambridge, MA (2000-present & 1997-1999)
Editor
O'Reilly, best known for computer books with animals on the covers, is the leading information source for computer technology. Their web sites, books, and conferences capture and share the knowledge of leading innovators. At O'Reilly, I have worked on books involving Perl, Microsoft .NET, mobile technology, PC hardware, and more. Before my promotion to Editor, I contributed to several .NET books, and developed a suite of software for generating .NET documentation (UML diagrams and API references).

QUANTUMSTREAM. Fairfax, VA (2000)
Programmer
QuantumStream developed a real-time system to perform content syndication and rights assignment of web content. The system was made up of two major components; a modified version of the Apache web server that requested content and a Java Servlet system that delivered content. These communicated with each other using encrypted XML exchanges over an HTTP stream. My responsibilities included:

• Developing the modified version of Apache 1.3.x, which required me to develop a lightweight library for HTTP requests, a library for shared memory hash tables, work with OpenSSL, and use expat for processing XML documents.
• Java servlet work--Although I was not principally responsible for the implementation of the Java Servlet system, I was solely responsible for developing a working prototype of it using Apache Tomcat. This prototype followed an evolving specification (the Java Servlet piece was much more complicated than the Apache component, and implementation on the Servlet piece began after work on the Apache component was complete).

JP MORGAN. New York, NY (1996-1997 & 1993-1995)
Programmer
JP Morgan (now JP Morgan Chase & Co.) is a global financial firm that meets the financial needs of businesses, governments, and other organizations. At JP Morgan, I was involved with several projects:

• Initially, I worked as a solo developer on a trading system for a new area of business (trading crude oil in the spot and forward market). Using FoxPro and SQL, I worked closely with the traders to develop a system to track these trades, perform daily mark-to-market calculations, and upload trade information to other systems, including back office systems.
• After that project, I went on to work on a large system for tracking energy and base metal commodity trades, performing mark-to-market calculations, correlating price moves between seemingly unrelated commodities, and feeding data to back office systems.
• Later, I joined the Research Logistics Group to develop one of JP Morgan's first web-based in-house software packages, a research publication subscription management system that was deployed globally to clients running Netscape Navigator. Written using Perl, Netscape Enterprise Server, and Sybase SQL Server, this system coordinated subscriptions and managed logistical aspects such as DHL and Federal Express delivery of research periodicals published by JP Morgan.

TRW SYSTEMS INTEGRATION GROUP. Fairfax, VA (1995-1996)
Programmer
The TRW Systems Integration Group provided software development services for government agencies. While at TRW:

• I developed a cost accounting for the FAA. This project gave me one of my most comprehensive experiences with the entire lifecycle of an application.
• I was part of a small team that interacted directly with the stakeholders, and participated in requirements gathering, prototype development, and seeing the development of the system through to completion. The application was a cost accounting system written in FoxPro that pushed the limits of the relatively primitive user-interface components at the time. I used SQL extensively to create a data-driven, user-centric application.

TRAINING:

• Apple Computer (Boston, Massachusetts) 2004. Three-day custom course.
• Seybold Seminars (San Francisco, California), 2003 Half-day tutorial on Mac OS X and Unix.
• O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (San Diego, California) 2002. Half-day tutorial on Web Services.
• O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (San Diego, California) 2002. Half-day tutorial on C#.
• O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference (Santa Clara, California) 2002. Half-day intro tutorial on Mac OS X and Unix
• The Bazaar (New York, New York) 1999. One-day tutorial on database design patterns.

CONFERENCES:

• O'Reilly Open Source Conference (Portland, Oregon) 2004
• O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (San Diego, California) 2004
• Applied XML Developer's Conference (Beaverton, Oregon), 2003
• Web Services Edge East (Boston, Massachusetts) 2003
• National Web Security (Singapore), 2002
• The Perl Conference 3.0 (Monterey, California) 1999
• The Perl Conference 2.0 (San Jose, California) 1998

BOOKS:

• Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks (co-author, 2005)
• Linux Unwired (co-author, 2004)
• Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks (co-author, 2004)
• Learning Unix for Mac OS X (co-author, 2003)
• Mac OS X for Unix Geeks (co-author, 2002)
• Perl Resource Kit (Windows and Unix editions, co-author, 1998)
• Database Application Programming for Linux (2000)
• Official Guide to Mini SQL (1998)
• Java Database Programming (1996)
• World Wide Web Database Programming for Windows NT (1996)

PERIODICALS:

• Make
• JIWire
• The O'Reilly Network
• The Perl Journal
• Web Techniques
• Dr. Dobb's Journal
• Linux Magazine
• The Linux Gazette
• Unix Review/Performance Computing