Edward Michael Colbert Daniel Liam O’Connor

1. Software Engineer, Teradata Corporation, February 2009 – Present
   • I play a key role in the architecture & development of the frontend of Teradata Viewpoint.
   • My development work includes heavy use of jQuery, including developing in-house plugins as well as extensive modifications of open source plugins.

2. Freelance Web Application Developer, May 2007 – Present. 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.

3. 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.
4. Software Engineer & Senior Systems Administrator, 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.
5. 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.
6. Programmer & Systems Administrator, Bomis, May – Aug. 2000, Jul. – Dec. 2001
   • Developed enhancements for the nascent Wikipedia project, including its initial L^aT_eX inclusion code.
   • 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.

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 – Present

   I help to organize San Diego’s Ignite events.

2. SpaceUp, 2009 – Present

   I helped to organize the world’s first unconference for space engineers, entrepreneurs, & enthusiasts.

3. Django San Diego, 2008 – Present

   I run our local Django user group.

4. San Diego Web Standards Group, 2008 – 2009

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

5. HTML Working Group (W3C), 2007 – Present
6. WHATWG, 2006 – Present

   By helping to define HTML 5, I aim to ensure the long-term survivability of the web.

7. BarCamp San Diego, 2006 – 2008

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

8. Microformats, 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.