Objective

I want to do my best work. That means finding a place where:

I care genuinely about the goals of the organization, and where my values mesh with the organizational mission.
Where I can do what I am best at, and what I am best at is what the organization needs from me.
Where I feel confident about how I fit into the organization, and where I always know what I should and what I want to work on next. And those two things are the same thing. (This last goal is a lofty one, but I look to the stars!)

Skills

With ten years of experience in a variety of situations and working with many systems and environments, a complete list of skills is difficult. Some particular skills:

Python: my primary programming language, I have used it for a wide variety of tasks and I have written many popular open source libraries.

Javascript: while seldom the primary language for projects, I have considerable experience, and don't shy away or avoid Javascript.

HTML: though I am not a designer, I have considerable experience with parsing, scraping, and manipulating HTML (exemplified in lxml.html and Deliverance).

HTTP: I've read the HTTP/1.1 spec multiple times and in WebOb and other libraries have encoded that knowledge in libraries. This gives me a strong basis for REST, WebDAV, and other HTTP-based technologies.

Google App Engine: I have produced libraries for App Engine, my code is included in App Engine (WebOb), and I have written code that is included in the base system (httplib).

PHP: though not a preferred language, I have read and modified PHP applications in many situations when it was the appropriate or most expedient solution to a problem.

Experience

August 2006 - January 2010. Senior Developer, The Open Planning Project, New York.

Projects have included:

Developed a tool for managing cloud deployments and application deployments in the cloud, toppcloud.

Created a build system for a core software project, allowing repeatable deployments and consistent development across all the programmers.

Editor of the group blog, The Civic Hacker

Adoption and adaptation of a product, Deliverance, for website theming and integration among disparate projects. This included documentation, advocacy, and presentations around this project.

Tool development and support for other programmers, including pip and virtualenv

November 2003 - July 2006. Senior Programmer, Imaginary Landscape Web Design, Chicago IL.

Reporting directly to the company partners, my duties and initiatives have included the following:

Produce and deploy applications for a variety of customers.

Responsible for design, implementation, and continued enhancement of an in-house content management system.

Develop, maintain, and resolve bugs for serveral core projects.

Responsible for the maintenance of several legacy projects. Provide advice and guidance about the future direction of these projects and their continued maintenance and evolution.

Initiate and provided guidance in the use of company-wide source versioning control and bug tracking system.

Performing code review of other programmers' work.

Proofread project proposals for technical consistency and feasibility.

Write and edit specifications and requirements.

Provide time estimates for projects and potential functionality tradeoffs.

Evaluate software products and development environments for company and client use.

Introduced new technologies, among them Paste, a Python web programming framework, and the adoption of Zope Page Templates. Transitioned the company from Zope to Webware to Paste WebKit.

Developed a new deployment system, including management techniques for supporting diverse dependencies in isolated environments.

Write documentation, both application code documentation and documentation on company-wide coding standards.

Database design, evolution, programming access abstraction, performance optimization and debugging, and installation maintenance. Primarily using PostgreSQL.

July 2000 - November 2003, Independent Consultant, Chicago IL: Working for a variety of clients on web development projects, both subcontracting and direct consulting. Typical jobs have included both design and implementation, starting from defining requirements and continuing through maintenance.

August 2000 - January 2002. Programmer, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago IL (In 2002 Fitzroy Dearborn was acquired by another publisher and dissolved)

Programmed and maintained extensive online collaboration system to receive comments from authors, advisers, and off-site staff on articles.

Administered intranet server which hosted above program, mailing lists, FTP sharing accounts, and a connection with the Windows NT server.

Redesign and restructuring of the editorial website.

October 2000 - January 2001, Programmer, Norphans.com, Chicago IL: Programming and web page design for online toy company, using PHP and MySQL.

November 1999 - April 2000, Distributed Support Services Consultant, Northwestern University, IL: Provided phone and on-site support for faculty and staff.

June-August 1999, Computer Instructor, Bloomington Public Schools, MN.: Designed and led a class in web design for students, grades 5-8. Led adult volunteers. Supervised computer use in after-school program.

Open Source Projects

Projects

Software projects I have created (some listed more than once when they fit into multiple categories); I've contributed to other projects, but each of these is something I've authored:

Work products

(I still need to compile a list of products and projects implemented at The Open Planning Project)

Major products and projects implemented at Imaginary Landscape:

Landscaper: a content management system, developed through two redesigns. The first redesign started as a legacy Zope system, rewritten still in Zope (but with ZPT instead of DTML) adding workflow and versioning. The second redesign moved to a Paste/WebKit version.
Broadcast Email Manager. This tool is used to send out newsletters and other posts to large numbers of members. The system includes tracking and reports on emails, bounce resolution, and measures to reduce the likelihood of emails being marked as spam.
Arts & Entertainment Calendar.
Generic form processing application. This is used for collecting information from many different kinds of forms, and emailing and/or saving the data.
Generic file editor/mini-CMS. This edits pages on disk, with a low impact on the site.
Internal navigation framework for applications. This brings together all our tools into a common navigation system.
Physician directories for several hospitals.
A contest submission, review, and voting system for an advertising award.
A centralized cross-framework login system.
A Mailman skinning project, which added some more friendly and directed screens in front of Mailman.
Several systems using public key crypto for storing sensitive information, like credit card numbers and medical information.
Several client-specific database applications, with custom importing systems and various reports and queries on the data.
New application scaffolding, so that new applications all use the set of standard styles and coding conventions.
Blogger integration, submitting new posts to Blogger via a Q&A form.
MapQuest integration with their XSLT-based systems.

Presentations

Talks

Some talks and presentations I've given:

Misc. Presentations

Testing with py.test (a unit testing framework).

Packaging with Setuptools, a quick introduction to a packaging system.

SQLObject and Database Programming in Python

One Laptop Per Child - an overview of the project, given at UniForum Chicago

There's some other stuff in my Subversion home directory.

DjangoCon 2009 Keynote

Towards A New Self-Definition Of Open Source

PyCon 2010

Not yet presented, but I am again an invited speaker, and will be speaking on The Subject Of Source Code.

From PyCon 2009

Invited talk: Topics of Interest

From PyCon 2008

HTML Processing in Python (slides not available, but there is a retrospective post, a post on HTML accessibility, and most substantive a post on HTML parser performance)