David Plans Casal

Current

• Digital Technologist at Brunel University

Past

• Research officer and developer. at University of East Anglia
• Research officer, developer. at Goldsmiths College
• Director of Research at Luminas Limited

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Education

• University of East Anglia

Recommended

4 people have recommended David

Connections

40 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My RSS feed

David Plans Casal’s Summary

Working in the FLOSS arena since 1998, first as a freelancer and then as part of Luminas, then Orixo and now Sourcesense, I've seen the bottle spin a couple of times and have managed both small and large Open Source problems. The main problem spaces I've encountered are online audiovisual archives and web-based content management.

While my roles have centered around research, pre-sales, and project management, I have become a proficient software developer in my preffered field : online media archives, and am currently developing research projects in C++, Ruby and Puredata.

I would like to get my hands dirty in further Open Source projects, especially around large data integration problems, and believe firmly that my main gift is that of conversation at the onset of a problem, and the possible implementation of a solution.

David Plans Casal’s Specialties:

FLOSS project management, pre-sales, government liaison, evangelism and conference organisation/presentation, research and development.

XML, XHTML, usability (WAI), CSS, Cocoon, C++, Ruby, Puredata, MPEG7 (description and extraction in XML Schema-driven applications).

David Plans Casal’s Experience

• Digital Technologist

  Brunel University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  October 2006 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Dataflow programming teaching and research, assistance with programme and research development in the hybrid digital media space.

• Research officer and developer.

  University of East Anglia

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  1998 — October 2006 (8 years)

  Responsible for online audio archive curation and software development, consultancy.

• Research officer, developer.

  Goldsmiths College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2006 — October 2006 (10 months)

  MPEG7 Audio software development in C++, Ruby and the Puredata framework, for an EU Comission project : New Media for a New Millenium (NM2).

• Director of Research

  Luminas Limited

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2002 — January 2006 (4 years)

David Plans Casal’s Education

• University of East Anglia

  BaHons, Music, 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

David Plans Casal’s Websites:

• My Website
• My RSS feed

David Plans Casal’s Interests:

Chewing toys with my son TJ, computer music and improvisation, large-scale music retrieval for online archives, real-time synthesis and feature extraction in MPEG7.

David Plans Casal’s Groups:

• LinkedIn UK 1st Million Members member

David Plans Casal’s Honors:

Honorary Research Fellow, University of East Anglia. 2004 - present.

David Plans Casal’s Contact Settings

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