| Skills and Experience | |
| Technical |
Languages and Platforms
Extensive knowledge of Common Lisp and Java with
experience in writing distributed applications and
high-performance servers. Authored book on Common Lisp.
Past experience building web based applications and
utilities in Perl. (Wrote Class::MethodMaker module,
available on CPAN).
Also familiar with Javascript, SQL, Emacs, and UNIX environment.
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| Writing |
Expository and Journalistic
Author of Coders at Work
(Apress, 2009) and the Jolt Productivity Award-winning
Practical
Common Lisp (Apress, 2005). Experience in daily and
weekly journalism. Published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
New Haven Advocate, Yale Scientific and others.
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| Teaching |
Java, Object Oriented Programming, and Tai Chi
Experience teaching Java programming and object
oriented design to audience of professional and amateur
programmers. Also an instructor of Yang style Tai Chi at
the White Magnolia Tai Chi School.
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| Education | |
| 1994 |
Yale University
BA in English with distinction in the major. Won
following writing prizes:
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| Employment | |
| 2007-2009 |
Author
Wrote Coders at Work, a
book of interviews with fifteen notable programmers, for
Apress Publishing.
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| 2005-2007 |
Consultant
Consulted for a variety of clients focusing on Lisp,
QA and Software development process, and anything else
requiring a combination of technical expertise,
communication skills, and leadership ability.
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| 2003-2005 |
Author
Wrote Practical Common
Lisp, for Apress Publishing. Won Jolt Productivity Award in Technical Books category.
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| 1999-2002 |
Kenamea
Worked as Technical Director leading development of
transactional message switch and participating in design of
entire product line. Also responsible for Kenamea's
software development process.
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| 1997-1999 |
BEA (was WebLogic)
Worked as Senior Software Engineer, on the WebLogic
Java Application Server. Last role was leading five-person
team developing next generation of EJB container in the
WebLogic server. Previously involved in implementation of
enterprise APIs such as JNDI and EJB as well as work on
internal test framework and coding standards.
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| 1998-1999 |
UC Berkeley Extension
Taught Java: Discovering its Power, an
introductory course on Java and object oriented design and
A First Course in Java, a Java course for
non-programmers.
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| 1996-1997 |
Organic Online
Worked as Software Engineer, writing groupware tools
in Perl and Java and Perl scripts for a variety of clients'
web-sites, including writing the search engine for Nike's
Atlanta 1996 Olympic site.
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| 1995-1996 |
Mother Jones Magazine
Interned, and later contracted, as computer
programmer, sysadmin and web designer for The MoJo Wire, Mother
Jones's web-site. Designed and wrote the original Live Wire
web-discussion system.
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| Summer 1994 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Worked as reporting intern for city desk, features
department, editorial page and copy desk.
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