Experience

Burning Man Project

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Department Manager, Black Rock Rangers

  • Aug 2001 - Present

  Part of a team of volunteers that protects a remarkable community in an annually re-created temporary city of approximately 70,000 citizens. Responsibilities include: resolving conflicts before they escalate, handling emergency situations, and calling in additional resources as necessary. Help maintain community-defined standards for conduct in an environment with minimalist rules. Enhance the safety of the Black Rock City population. Coordinate Ranger activities, manage Rangers on duty, respond to escalated incidents, and liaise with event management, emergency medical teams, law enforcement, and other departments. Manage the acquisition of resources for the Ranger department, the construction of facilities, and provide support for operational teams. Manage the department budget, expense tracking, reporting, and accountability. Represent the department to event management, BLM law enforcement, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office, BLM conservation teams, and others. Manage the Ranger Council (senior management). Show less



State of California

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Board Member

  • Oct 2020 - Present



Twisted Matrix Labs

• Software Development

• Core Developer

  • Nov 2005 - Present



Python Software Foundation

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• PSF Fellow

  • Mar 2012 - Present



The Apache Software Foundation

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Developer, Member

  • Jun 1999 - Present

  HTTP Server and Apache Portable Runtime projects. Mac OS X support. HTTP Server and Apache Portable Runtime projects. Mac OS X support.



Apple

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Architect, Apple Media Products

  • Jun 2015 - Nov 2018

• Engineering Manager, Communication Services

  • May 2005 - May 2015

  Manage a team responsible for calendar, contacts, mail, messages, database, web, and wiki services in Mac OS X Server.Built a standards-compliant calendaring and scheduling service. Implemented the WebDAV, WebDAV ACL, CalDAV, and CardDAV protocols (extensions to HTTP) in Python using the Twisted framework. Participated in the standards process for related protocols through the IETF and CalConnect. Designed a data store API for calendar and contact data storage. Oversaw a design for a server archtecture that provides a solid framework for scalability, background work queing, and service partitioning.Released the calendar server as an open source project and managed the developer and user community. Deployed and managed the initial version Mac OS Forge, Apple's external open source project hosting site. Show less

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 2002 - May 2005

  Part of the team that created and launched the iTunes Music Store. Responsible for designing, managing, automating and maintaining the process of aquiring (many terabytes of) music and other data from 3rd parties and integrating that data into the music store. Used Unix scripting, Python, SQL, Java, Apple's WebObjects/EOF tools and other software to manage audio, images, XML metadata and workflow. Helped define the internal database schema for content relationships.Interfaced with staff at content providers to develop and resolve issues with inbound content. Defined and documented the iTunes Music Store package and meta data specifications used by content providers to deliver music to Apple. Wrote tools to provide internal visibility into the content supply chain. Show less



High Rock Security

• Security and Investigations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Security Guard, Manager

  • 2008 - 2013

  California BSIS-licensed security guard. Worked in and managed security teams at various festivals and events. California BSIS-licensed security guard. Worked in and managed security teams at various festivals and events.



KnowNow

• Software Development

• Developer Community Manager

  • Feb 2001 - Jul 2002

  Engineering manager for a team of engineers responsible for developing the initial prototype server software for KnowNow's messaging system and author of the KnowNow C Microserver, an API for sending and receiving asyncronous messages over HTTP from a single-threaded C application. Responsible for KnowNow's developer relations program, including developer messaging, training programs, conference representation, and customer and developer technical support. Engineering manager for a team of engineers responsible for developing the initial prototype server software for KnowNow's messaging system and author of the KnowNow C Microserver, an API for sending and receiving asyncronous messages over HTTP from a single-threaded C application. Responsible for KnowNow's developer relations program, including developer messaging, training programs, conference representation, and customer and developer technical support.



Apple

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Engineering Lead

  • Jul 1997 - Feb 2001

  Engineering lead for open source projects. Represented Apple at various conferences and events (USENIX, BSDCon, ApacheCon). Worked closely with legal staff on licensing issues. Core OS engineer, reponsible for a majority of the userland BSD tool set in Mac OS X. Updated a large portion of the BSD commands to modern versions, ported and adopted a variety of software packages into Mac OS, including CVS, Apache httpd, Perl, M.I.T. Kerberos, NTP, tcsh, bash, flex. Also reponsible for source code control management and processes for Core OS. Show less



The Walt Disney Company

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 1996 - Jul 1997

  Wrote the commerce processing portion of the Disney Store Online, the Send-a-Pooh-Gram application, and Disney.com Find. Wrote an Objective-C API around the OpenMarket Commerce SDK and the Verity Search SDK such that both were accesible using NeXT's WebObjects Framework. Wrote the commerce processing portion of the Disney Store Online, the Send-a-Pooh-Gram application, and Disney.com Find. Wrote an Objective-C API around the OpenMarket Commerce SDK and the Verity Search SDK such that both were accesible using NeXT's WebObjects Framework.



Agora Technology Group

• Cambridge, MA

• Vice President

  • May 1994 - Apr 1996

  Managed a group of programmers and designers in creating Web software, site implementation, and quality control for several consulting projects, including the original web sites for Bay Networks and Data Communications Magazine. Built HTML generation and site management tools. Managed a group of programmers and designers in creating Web software, site implementation, and quality control for several consulting projects, including the original web sites for Bay Networks and Data Communications Magazine. Built HTML generation and site management tools.