Alan Coopersmith

Current

• Member, Board of Directors at X.Org Foundation
• Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Past

• Member, OpenSolaris Governing Board at OpenSolaris
• Software Release Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• Senior Engineering Aide at University of California at Berkeley Multimedia Research Center

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Alan Coopersmith’s Summary

Alan Coopersmith’s Specialties:

Solaris, X11, programming, C, HTML, XML, Unix, Linux

Alan Coopersmith’s Experience

• Member, Board of Directors

  X.Org Foundation

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Elected member of the Board of non-profit foundation chartered with promoting the X Window System and supporting the open source community that develops it.

• Software Engineer

  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Software industry)

  March 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)

  X Window System Engineering for Solaris and Linux

• Member, OpenSolaris Governing Board

  OpenSolaris

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  April 2007 — March 2009 (2 years)

  Elected member of community organization formed to manage and promote the open source OpenSolaris operating system. Served as Vice Chair from April 2007 through March 2008.

• Software Release Engineer

  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

  March 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Release engineer for Solaris Desktop products, and developer of release engineering tools.

• Senior Engineering Aide

  University of California at Berkeley Multimedia Research Center

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 8 months)

  Software developer and release engineer for multimedia toolkit research project written in C & TCL for Unix platforms.

Alan Coopersmith’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  BA , Computer Science , 1990 — 1999

Additional Information

Alan Coopersmith’s Websites:

• My Blog

Alan Coopersmith’s Groups:

X.Org Foundation, California Alumni Association, Usenix, OpenSolaris community

•    University of California Alumni (Berkeley)
•    OpenSolaris
•    Open Source Developers
•    California Alumni Association - UC Berkeley
•    Berkeley Engineering Alumni
•    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
•    Solaris Enthusiasts
•    Solaris / OpenSolaris for Professionals
•    Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients & Sun VDI
•    Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley
•    O'Reilly Open Source Convention OSCON
•    X Window System
•    Sun Security Interest

Alan Coopersmith’s Honors:

2006 OpenSolaris Contributor Award winner

Alan Coopersmith’s Contact Settings

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