Me

I live on an island in the American Pacific Northwest where I enjoy spending time with my family and being outdoors.

Contact

• email
• linked
• github
• strava

Software

Open Source

• Jython
  • I was the primary maintainer for awhile and wrote the popular zxJDBC module
  • My proposal Moving Jython Forward did in many ways do just that.
• PySmug
  • A high performance client library for SmugMug

Publications

• Scalability Worst Practices InfoQ, August 18, 2008.
• Jython & zxJDBC Database Programming Py, 2002.

Presentations

• Scaling Data Processing in the Cloud. JavaOne, San Francisco, CA, September 21, 2010.
• Orbitz World Wide: An architecture’s response to growth and change QCon, San Francisco, CA, November 9, 2007.
• Panel Discussion: Architecting for Performance and Scalability, QCon, San Francisco, CA, November 8, 2007.
• Version Aware SOA using Jini and Java. JavaOne, San Francisco, CA, May 17, 2006.
• Implementing a Version Aware Service Dispatching Framework Using Jini. Ninth Jini Community Meeting, Chicago, IL, October 19, 2005.
• Introduction to Jython. ChiPy, Chicago, IL, January 23, 2005.

Technical Reviewer

• Data Analysis with Open Source Tools. O’Reilly, 2010.
• Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think. O’Reilly, 2007.
• Jython Essentials. O’Reilly, 2002.
• Jython for Java Programmers. New Riders, 2001.

Interviews

• Orbitz.com Architecture

Honors & Awards

• Elected to the Python Software Foundation in 2005 for my work on Jython

Patents

• Product availability tracking and notification system and method
• System and method for providing an exit window on a user display device