I was executive director of Advanced Technology at The Walt Disney Company<\/p>\n
Before I came to Disney, I worked on\u00a0on Dynamic Languages and cloud computing at Sun Microsystems<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prior to working for Sun, I was the manager of the Cosmo<\/a> team at the Open Source Applications Foundation<\/a> (OSAF), and a contributor to OSAF’s Chandler<\/a> Personal Information Manager. I was also responsible for community development, using my experiences as a member of the Apache Software Foundation<\/a> (ASF) to help OSAF bootstrap a vibrant community around Cosmo and Chandler.<\/p>\n My involvement with the ASF continues – I am a member of the Incubator<\/a> Project Management Committee, where I am helping new projects acclimatize to the Apache environment. I am one of the mentors for the Erlang<\/a> based CouchDB<\/a> project. I am also very happy to be involved with the new Apache Labs<\/a> Project Management Committee. One of the original developers of the Xerces-J XML parser<\/a>, I was a founding member of the Apache XML Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prior to working at OSAF, I worked for several years as an independent consultant focusing on Java, XML, and web services. I was the technical lead for IBM’s XML4J parser, which served as the initial code base for the Java version of the Xerces-J parser. Other projects I have worked on include Apple’s Newton PDA, and on the compound document portion of Taligent’s object-oriented frameworks.<\/p>\n I did graduate work at Brown University<\/a>, where I worked on data models and query languages for object oriented databases. I earned a bachelors degree in Mathematics at MIT<\/a>.<\/p>\n My book, Professional XML Development with Apache Tools<\/a><\/cite>, was published by Wrox in December 2003. In addition, I have authored several trade magazine articles and academic papers.<\/p>\n I have spoken at numerous industry conferences including OSCON, JavaOne, CommunityOne, PyCon, DjangoCon, ApacheCon, Software Development, and IBM’s Solutions Developer Conference.<\/p>\n In 2009, I was a Seattle PI “Geek of the Week<\/a>”<\/p>\n