Objective	My interests include geographic and location focused applications, ecological simulations, disaster response and development software, and emerging, distributed Internet architectures. I'm looking for short or long term positions and collaborations, with technology companies, artists groups, academia, research agencies, individuals and ad-hoc organizations.
Work Experience	Freelance Web Developer : January 2002 - present I have been pursuing several projects, products and contracts, independently and in collaboration, based in web mapping, wikis and weblog architectures. I am the developer of worldKit, a Flash and GeoRSS based web mapping toolkit, founder of the GeoRSS aggregator Mapufacture, and am deeply involved in OpenStreetMap, GeoPress, and Mapstraction. I have supported and collaborated on mapping and web projects with a wide range of partners, from government and government-like institutions (UNDP, Ordnance Survey, UN INSTRAW, USGS, BBC, NASA and European Commission) to companies (Urban Mapping, Nestoria, San Jose Mercury News, Ning, MetaCarta and SiteMeter) to individual webloggers, artists and open source projects. I have presented at Where 2.0, UN Web4Dev, XTech 2006, BlogTalk 2, FOSS4G, Open Source Geospatial 2005 and ALife X conferences. And contributed articles to several books in the O'Reilly Hacks Series (Mapping Hacks, Yahoo Hacks), as well as published on the O'Reilly Network and GeoConnexion Magazine. I have been deeply involved in the development and advocacy of GeoRSS. My work on weblogs, RSS, and aggregation frameworks was focused on several tools released for the Radio Userland platform. Details on my current efforts, experiments and thoughts can be found on my weblog Brain Off. Senior Developer : Yahoo! Europe : June 2000 - August 2001 Internal transfer to Yahoo! Europe, to lead personalization internationally. Monitored, contributed to, and guided core software development, especially relating to international deployment. Provided knowledge resources for international developers and producers. Built and maintained front-end and back-end servers. Major projects included: Launched and made significant contributions to European products -- Points, Message Boards, Corporate Yahoo, Finance, Wireless, Maps, News and Messenger Brought European systems up to date, including OS, webservers, and databases Internationalized My Yahoo content and simplified distribution Built prototypes of Behavioral Personalization and SOAP interface to the User Database Senior Developer : Yahoo! : June 1997 - June 2000 Engineer for My Yahoo!, and personalization accross the Yahoo Network. Drove growth of personalized content and functionality, integrated disparate systems, and made contributions to core software. Led a small team of developers focused on My Yahoo. Worked with practically all product and functional groups during the growth of Yahoo, from a post-start-up to multi-national corporation. Major projects included: Modules, content, and editing infrastructure of My Yahoo Core infrastructure of Yahoo's web application platform XML content distribution system Yahoo Bookmarks, and personalization of many other Yahoo properties Cobranded My Yahoo (including a DHTML version) Membership statistics systems Internet Programmer : Pheonix Media Group : October 1996 - April 1997 Web based programming in a Unix/Oracle environment on several large scale commercial projects. Assisted the System Administrator in configurations and installations and interacted with various departments in creation and maintenance of the websites at Personals Network and Boston Phoenix. Major projects included: Construction of Personal Pages system - users can create and easily revise home pages on the Personals Network. (U.S. Patent #6,253,216) Developed an Advertisement "Click Through" tracking and statistics reporting system for the Boston Pheonix. Developed an email address verification system. Wrote software to construct natural language emails from raw data.
Education and Internships	University of Sussex MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Completed with Distinction in August, 2004 Dissertation: An Ecological Approach to the Evolution of Complexity Major projects included: Evolutionary simulation of ant colony foraging Simulation of Industrial Melanism Research in spatial and stocahstic ecological models Finite State Machine based web screen scraping (My Yahoo 2 RSS) California Academy of Sciences & Center for Habitat Restoration Intern, March - June 2003 Contributed to several restoration ecology projects in San Francisco; bird monitoring at Herons Head Park, water quality and zooplankton monitoring and analysis at Mountain Lake, and removal of invasive plants. University of California, Santa Cruz Bachelor of Arts in Computer and Information Sciences, Theory Emphasis Graduated with Honors in June, 1996 Major projects included: An adaptive agent for the game Othello Hyperspace visualization application An auditory cellular automata Universal Turing Machine Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Intern, June - August 1995 Worked closely with curators to develop online exhibits for the Information Technologies, Textiles, and Numismatics divisions of the Museum. Provided networking and software assistance to the Smithsonian at large.
Technical Skills	Extensive experience in software development, especially object oriented programming and the latest WWW platforms and technologies. Specialized in geospatial, location, mapping. I can quickly gain competency in new languages and systems. C/C++ Programming.    Ruby/Rails.    PHP    Javascript/AJAX.    Perl.    Unix Development and Admin.    Apache Programming and Configuration.   XML RSS and Web Services.    Flash Actionscript.    Radio Userland and Frontier.    SQL.    Java.
Some Personal Interests	Bicycle Touring and Commuting. Wildlife and Restoration Ecology. Electronic music, sound synthesis, and animation. Power kiting. Sacred Geometry. Aikido. Snowboarding.