- From August 2009 to February 2010, I will serve as Director of Education for the National Broadband Plan run by the FCC. This work will involve developing a national strategy for making use of broadband infrastructure to improve educational outcomes. I will be working with and soliciting input from educational stakeholders across the spectrum.
- As consulting principal of Mixrun, I often serve as consulting CTO for a number of projects and organizations. My work spans a broad area including technology, strategy/planning, management, facilitation, financial forecasting and implementation. My focus is on developing technology systems grounded with values of transparency, flexibility and community. Notably I am working with the California Department of Education on a project called Brokers of Expertise, which uses on-line and real world systems to share and build the expertise of educators.*
- Previously, I served as a Program Manager for the Stupski Foundation for six years, where I designed and implemented various grants for technology in K-12 education. I also worked actively across the country with a number of K-12 Districts and other agencies. I also wrote and co-authored a number of articles and papers while there, including this book chapter with Jeff Wayman and Sam Stringfield.
- From 1996 to 2001 I worked as Vice President of Engineering and Software Architect for LoopNet Inc., a commercial real estate listing firm. I designed and built LoopNet's technology and web systems from its inception in 1995 (from napkins). I left the company in early 2001 to get involved with non-profit and philanthropic work. LoopNet remains a successful business and is currently listed on NASDAQ.
- I reside in Berkeley California.
- I contribute to several open source software projects including developing a pure Ruby geocoding solution called GeoX, a simple Ruby image library called MojoMagick. I am also an active participant on the Postgres SQL language group. I went to RailsConf 2008 to talk about internet search techniques.
- Addenda/Errata at misuse.org/science * For more on Brokers of Expertise see the articles I wrote for CETPA and First Monday on this subject.
Also this video gives a good explanation of how the system currently works.
