Objective

None. I'm cool with what I'm doing right now.

Experience

August 2006 - present. Senior Developer, The Open Planning Project, New York.

November 2003 - July 2006. Senior Programmer, Imaginary Landscape Web Design, Chicago IL.

Reporting directly to the company partners, my duties and initiatives have included the following:

• Produce and deploy applications for a variety of customers.
• Responsible for design, implementation, and continued enhancement of an in-house content management system.
• Develop, maintain, and resolve bugs for serveral core projects.
• Responsible for the maintenance of several legacy projects. Provide advice and guidance about the future direction of these projects and their continued maintenance and evolution.
• Initiate and provided guidance in the use of company-wide source versioning control and bug tracking system.
• Performing code review of other programmers' work.
• Proofread project proposals for technical consistency and feasibility.
• Write and edit specifications and requirements.
• Provide time estimates for projects and potential functionality tradeoffs.
• Evaluate software products and development environments for company and client use.
• Introduced new technologies, among them Paste, a Python web programming framework, and the adoption of Zope Page Templates. Transitioned the company from Zope to Webware to Paste WebKit.
• Developed a new deployment system, including management techniques for supporting diverse dependencies in isolated environments.
• Write documentation, both application code documentation and documentation on company-wide coding standards.
• Database design, evolution, programming access abstraction, performance optimization and debugging, and installation maintenance. Primarily using PostgreSQL.

July 2000 - November 2003, Independent Consultant, Chicago IL

Working for a variety of clients on web development projects, both subcontracting and direct consulting. Typical jobs have included both design and implementation, starting from defining requirements and continuing through maintenance.

August 2000 - January 2002. Programmer, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago IL (In 2002 Fitzroy Dearborn was acquired by another publisher and dissolved)

• Programmed and maintained extensive online collaboration system to receive comments from authors, advisers, and off-site staff on articles.
• Administered intranet server which hosted above program, mailing lists, FTP sharing accounts, and a connection with the Windows NT server.
• Redesign and restructuring of the editorial website.

October 2000 - January 2001, Programmer, Norphans.com, Chicago IL

Programming and web page design for online toy company, using PHP and MySQL.

November 1999 - April 2000, Distributed Support Services Consultant, Northwestern University, IL

Provided phone and on-site support for faculty and staff.

June-August 1999, Computer Instructor, Bloomington Public Schools, MN.

Designed and led a class in web design for students, grades 5-8. Led adult volunteers. Supervised computer use in after-school program.

Open Source Projects

I've authored many open source projects:

• SQLObject; a popular object-relational mapper, used in TurboGears, Zope, and other applications.
• SQLObject2 and sqlapi, a reimplementation of SQLObject, and a complementary library to bring database access to a higher level.
• FormEncode (and FunFormKit before it); a form validation system, used in TurboGears and several other projects.
• Paste, a set of WSGI tools:
  • Paste core; generic WSGI tools (includes an advanced debugging tool).
  • Paste fixture; a simple system for doing acceptance testing on WSGI applications.
  • Paste Script; a framework for creating scaffolding scripts. Also a simple app server.
  • Paste Deploy; a configuration system for composing WSGI applications and middleware.
  • Paste WebKit; a reimplementation of the Webware API for WSGI.
  • WSGIRemote; a web client / RPC / REST client with special WSGI integration.
  • WSGIFilter; a framework for building output-filtering WSGI middleware and HTTP proxies.
  • WPHP; runs PHP in a subprocess with FastCGI communication to make it look like a WSGI application.
• Paste integration with:
  • CherryPy
  • Django
  • Trac
  • Wordpress
• Commentary; a system for commenting on web pages interactively; largely implemented in Javascript.
• PyLogo; an implementation of the Logo language using Python, and integrating with the Python object model.
• HTConsole; an interactive web-based console, with advanced features for representing Python objects as HTML.
• workingenv; a script for creating environments that are isolated from the global Python installation (and site-packages in particular).
• Webware Components; a system for mixing in multiple pieces of functionality into Webware servlets.
• Webware LoginKit; a component that adds authentication to Webware servlets.
• Webware ZPTKit; a component that adds Zope Page Template rendering.
• INITools; a simple set of tools for parsing .ini files, and building higher-level parsers on top of that.
• FitLoader; mostly a parser for CSV and Excel files, to then feed the data into tests.
• Twill/Javascript; an implementation of the Twill in Javascript, similar in spirit to Selenium.
• Javascript Doctest, a Javascript testing system inspired by Python's doctest
• A Wiki, written for Webware.
• FileBrowser, an Ajaxy through-the-web file management application, using Prototype.
• Wareweb, a web framework, meant as an updating of the Webware API. PoorMan was an aborted attempt to go further with the WSGIfication of it all.
• Javascript repeating form library (based on WHAT-WG Web Forms
• Apache Logfile analyzer.
• ComfyEdit, a very old project that edits HTML pages on disk.
• Tcl->Scheme, a translator from the Tcl language to the Scheme language.
• Logo->Schema, a translator for Logo to Scheme.
• HyperQuiz, a HyperStudio stack for giving quizes.
• Misc. experiments, a directory of small coding recipes.

Contributions

Projects I've made major contributions to:

• RhubarbTart, a web framework.
• Webware, also a web framework.
• Kid, a templating language.
• Pudge, a documentation extractor.
• Buildutils, a set of project management and packaging tools.
• WebHelpers, a library of functions for the web.
• Deliverance, a system for transforming web pages and applying themes.

Work products

Major products and projects implemented at Imaginary Landscape:

• Landscaper: a content management system, developed through two redesigns. The first redesign started as a legacy Zope system, rewritten still in Zope (but with ZPT instead of DTML) adding workflow and versioning. The second redesign moved to a Paste/WebKit version.
• Broadcast Email Manager. This tool is used to send out newsletters and other posts to large numbers of members. The system includes tracking and reports on emails, bounce resolution, and measures to reduce the likelihood of emails being marked as spam.
• Arts & Entertainment Calendar.
• Generic form processing application. This is used for collecting information from many different kinds of forms, and emailing and/or saving the data.
• Generic file editor/mini-CMS. This edits pages on disk, with a low impact on the site.
• Internal navigation framework for applications. This brings together all our tools into a common navigation system.
• Physician directories for several hospitals.
• A contest submission, review, and voting system for an advertising award.
• A centralized cross-framework login system.
• A Mailman <http://list.org>_ skinning project, which added some more friendly and directed screens in front of Mailman.
• Several systems using public key crypto for storing sensitive information, like credit card numbers and medical information.
• Several client-specific database applications, with custom importing systems and various reports and queries on the data.
• New application scaffolding, so that new applications all use the set of standard styles and coding conventions.
• Blogger integration, submitting new posts to Blogger via a Q&A form.
• MapQuest integration with their XSLT-based systems.

Presentations

"Creating pluggable applications with Eggs. Given at PyCon 2006.

"All about web programming (except programming)". Given at PyCon 2006.

This describes the development process we have created at Imaginary Landscape.

"WSGI Middleware and WSGIKit" (WSGIKit was later renamed as Python Paste). Given at PyCon 2005.

It describes the pattern of using WSGI to build a framework. Written much later, A Do-It-Yourself Framework covers some of the same ideas, but in a more concrete manner.

"The Web Framework Shootout". Given at PyCon 2004.

The paper compared several Python web frameworks.

Education

Earlham College, Richmond IN, 1995-1998