I am currently the founding CTO at a small internet real estate partnership called
Hutz.com. I also consult regularly with the
California Department of Education on a project called
Brokers of Expertise, which will use web systems to
share and build the expertise of educators. See also an article I wrote for
CETPA and another for
First Monday on this subject.
I also consult with a few for-profit companies on issues of technology and management.
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
wrote and co-authored a number of articles and papers while there, notably this
joint
collaboration with Jeff Wayman and Sam Stringfield.
From 1995 to 2001 I worked as Vice President of Engineering and Senior 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, no joke). 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.
Berkeley California is where I would hang my hat, if I wore one.
I am actively contributing to several open source software projects including developing a pure
Ruby geocoding solution called
GeoX, a simple Ruby image
library called
MojoMagick and integration testing Ara Howard's
BackgroundJob ('bj') queue. I am speaking at Rails Conf 2008 on
advanced searching techniques in programming.
Addenda/Errata at
misuse.org/science