Edward Michael Colbert Daniel Liam O’Connor

1. Safari Web Technology Engineer, Apple Inc., February 2011 – Present
   • I'm one of Apple's Member representatives to various W3C working groups (see below).
   • I help prioritize WebKit feature development to best help internal and external web developers.
   • I help improve Safari and WebKit's web compatibility by analyzing and testing browser parity.
2. Software Engineer, Teradata Corporation, February 2009 – January 2011

   Significantly contributed to the front-end architecture and engineering of Teradata Viewpoint, a suite of web applications—built with jQuery & jQuery UI—used to monitor and visualize the behavior and performance of Teradata data warehouses and appliances.

3. Freelance Web Application Developer, May 2007 – February 2009. Some highlights:

   1. Software Engineer (Contract), Teradata Corporation, May 2008 – February 2009 (See above.)
   2. Project Lead & Developer, Stout Public House, April – June 2008

      Developed small business website & its administrative web application using Blueprint, jQuery, Django, and Google App Engine. Led the team which included design and photography talent.

   3. Web Application Developer, Parker Wallace Company, May 2007 – May 2008

      Significantly contributed to the development and maintenance of Tablet Hotels and Hotels Made Simple, built in Python with WebWare and Prototype.

4. Software Engineer, Eventful Inc. (formerly EVDB Inc.), May 2005 – May 2007
   • Helped develop Eventful.com, built with PHP, AJAX, Smarty, and YUI.
   • Spearheaded Eventful’s use of the hCard and hCalendar microformats, Atom, and Google’s Data APIs.
   • Implemented several methods of the Eventful API, as well as API clients for Python and Emacs Lisp.
5. Senior Systems Administrator & Software Engineer, Tomo, Apr. 2004 – May 2005
   • Integral part of the team which built SORA, a mobile, massively-multiplayer simulation.
   • Developed a variety of Swing and web applications for editing SORA’s assets.
6. Systems Administrator, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD, Sep. 2002 – Apr. 2004
   • Built, configured, managed, and maintained high-performance computing clusters, including Rocks-based visualization and compute clusters for the OptIPuter project.
   • Managed large numbers of deployed servers, workstations, and laptops, using tools such as Current and cfengine, and operating systems including FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
7. Systems Administrator & Web Programmer, Bomis, May – Aug. 2000, Jul. – Dec. 2001
   • Developed UseMod Wiki enhancements for the nascent Wikipedia project, including the tool that first allowed mathematics articles to include inline L^aT_eX expressions.
   • Part of the team responsible for the development of all Bomis properties (primarily in Perl), and the systems administration of all Bomis, Nupedia, and Wikipedia servers.

Web standards

1. CSS Working Group @ W3C, 2011 – Present
2. EPUB Working Group @ IDPF, 2011 – Present
3. TC39 (ECMAScript) @ Ecma International, 2011 – Present
4. WebApps Working Group @ W3C, 2011 – Present
5. HTML Working Group @ W3C
   • Apple Member representative, 2011 – Present
   • Public Invited Expert, 2007 – 2011
6. WHATWG, 2006 – Present

   I work on Web standards for Apple in various working groups at the W3C and elsewhere.

   I wrote and collaborated on several Change Proposals within the HTML WG:

   • ISSUE-27 (rel ownership)
   • ISSUE-41 (distributed extensibility)
   • ISSUE-90, ISSUE-91, ISSUE-93, ISSUE-95, ISSUE-96, and ISSUE-97
   • ISSUE-133 (modal attribute)
7. The Microformats community, 2005 – Present
   • In 2009, I helped to organize microformatsDevCamp, a two-day meeting of microformats authors, designers, publishers, developers, and engineers.
   • In 2005, at EVDB (now Eventful), I implemented the first large-scale publication of hCalendar data.

Open Source contributions (more on GitHub)

1. Emacs, 2003 – Present
   • I developed json.el, a JSON parser and generator for Emacs Lisp, bundled with Emacs since 2008.
   • In 2006 I launched Planet Emacsen, which aggregates the blogs of Emacs users and developers.
   • Since 2003, I’ve been part of a team of developers working on ERC, an extensible, full-featured IRC client, bundled with Emacs since 2006.
2. ljupdate, 2001 – Present

   Designed, developed, and maintain an Emacs client for the LiveJournal blogging system.

Community participation

1. Ignite San Diego, 2009 – 2010

   I helped to organize the first two Ignite events in San Diego.

2. SpaceUp, 2009 – Present

   While in San Diego I helped to organize the world’s first unconference for space engineers, entrepreneurs, & enthusiasts. I'm now helping to plan San Francisco's edition of the same.

3. Django San Diego, 2008 – 2011

   I ran San Diego’s local Django user group.

4. San Diego Web Standards Group, 2008 – 2009

   I helped run our meetup for local, standards-aware web developers.

5. BarCamp San Diego, 2006 – 2008

   I helped to plan, promote, and run the first three San Diego BarCamps.