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