Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
The Web knows you. The Web loves you. Love the Web. Join the Web.
software engineering, writing code, inspiring people, creating a team, troubleshooting insanely odd problems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — July 2008 (2 years 10 months)
(Internet industry)
August 2005 — June 2008 (2 years 11 months)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 2 months)
One of the original members of the project.
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
One of the organizers of BarCampBirmingham in 2006.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2002 — October 2005 (2 years 11 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 1 month)
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
November 1995 — December 2000 (5 years 2 months)
Facilitated bringing University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) out of the dark ages into one of the most progressive (and impressive) Web presences in higher education. Built a content management system as means of accomplishing the task (and as it turned out, means of escaping to back the .com world).
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1995 — November 1995 (7 months)
My first taste of the Internet bubble.. 5 years ahead of Internet Bubble!
Started with creating "PC Ambulance", MS DOS diagnostics and configuration repair utility, written in C++
Ended up building Web site applications for clients like United Way and Books-a-Million. Thus began my quest onto the Web.
MS , Computer Science , 1996 — 1998
Degree completed while working full-time at the UAB Web Center.
BS , Computer Science , 1994 — 1995
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, though spent most of the time in CS Lab, hacking on IP/IPX stack, writing a packet driver library for Pascal.
MS , Electronic Engineering , 1989 — 1994
PhD , Computer Science , January 1999
All coursework is complete, but will probably never finish -- unless I decide to go back into academia.
Social Content Management, Javascript, Cooking, Hockey (Pittsburgh Penguins)
google-gears, IPSA, BarCamp, microformats, public-html, whatwg, rest-discuss, netsquared