Founder at Mapufacture
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Board Member at OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Digital Vagabond/Software Developer at Freelance
- Past
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- Founder at Mapufacture
- WaterWiki Developer at UNDP
- Senior Developer at Yahoo! Europe
- Senior Developer at Yahoo
- Internet Programmer at Pheonix Media Group
- Education
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- University of Sussex
- University of California, Santa Cruz
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Mikel Maron’s Summary
Building digital technology for our planet.
Mikel Maron’s Specialties:
Geographic and location focused applications, ecological simulations, disaster response and development software, and emerging, distributed Internet architectures.
RSS Open Geo Maps Wiki
Mikel Maron’s Experience
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Board Member
OpenStreetMap Foundation
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
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Digital Vagabond/Software Developer
Freelance
(Internet industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)
I have been pursuing several projects, products and contracts, independently and in collaboration, based in web mapping, wikis and weblog architectures.
I am the developer of worldKit, a Flash and GeoRSS based web mapping toolkit, founder of the GeoRSS aggregator Mapufacture, and am deeply involved in OpenStreetMap, GeoPress, and Mapstraction.
I have supported and collaborated on mapping and web projects with a wide range of partners, from government institutions (UNDP, UN INSTRAW, USGS, NASA and European Commission) to companies (Nestoria, Ning, MetaCarta and SiteMeter) to individual webloggers, artists and open source projects.
I have presented at Where 2.0, UN Web4Dev, XTech 2006, BlogTalk 2, FOSS4G, Open Source Geospatial 2005 and ALife X conferences. And contributed articles to several books in the O'Reilly Hacks Series (Mapping Hacks, Yahoo Hacks), as well as published on the O'Reilly Network and GeoConnexion Magazine. -
Founder
Mapufacture
(Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 5 months)
With Andrew Turner, I'm founder of Mapufacture. Mapufacture has been a long running side project, now bootstrapping into a business. We already have a significant service at http://mapufacture.com/, and are making many plans and code checkins to "help build the geospatial web".
Andrew and I continue to do contracting and consulting on all matter of web mapping and social web tools, and feed these experiences into improving Mapufacture.
Please get in touch if you have any ideas and interest in Mapufacture, or for any other interesting opportunities in general. -
WaterWiki Developer
UNDP
(Internet industry)
2005 — 2008 (3 years )
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Senior Developer
Yahoo! Europe
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
June 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Internal transfer to Yahoo! Europe, to lead personalization internationally. Monitored, contributed to, and guided core software development, especially relating to international deployment. Provided knowledge resources for international developers and producers. Built and maintained front-end and back-end servers.
Major projects included:
* Launched and made significant contributions to European products -- Points, Message Boards, Corporate Yahoo, Finance, Wireless, Maps, News and Messenger
* Brought European systems up to date, including OS, webservers, and databases
* Internationalized My Yahoo content and simplified distribution
* Built prototypes of Behavioral Personalization and SOAP interface to the User Database -
Senior Developer
Yahoo
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
June 1997 — June 2000 (3 years 1 month)
Engineer for My Yahoo!, and personalization accross the Yahoo Network. Drove growth of personalized content and functionality, integrated disparate systems, and made contributions to core software. Led a small team of developers focused on My Yahoo. Worked with practically all product and functional groups during the growth of Yahoo, from a post-start-up to multi-national corporation.
Major projects included:
* Modules, content, and editing infrastructure of My Yahoo
* Core infrastructure of Yahoo's web application platform
* XML content distribution system
* Yahoo Bookmarks, and personalization of many other Yahoo properties
* Cobranded My Yahoo (including a DHTML version)
* Membership statistics systems -
Internet Programmer
Pheonix Media Group
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)
October 1996 — April 1997 (7 months)
Web based programming in a Unix/Oracle environment on several large scale commercial projects. Assisted the System Administrator in configurations and installations and interacted with various departments in creation and maintenance of the websites at Personals Network and Boston Phoenix.
Major projects included:
* Construction of Personal Pages system - users can create and easily revise home pages on the Personals Network. (U.S. Patent #6,253,216)
* Developed an Advertisement "Click Through" tracking and statistics reporting system for the Boston Pheonix.
* Developed an email address verification system.
* Wrote software to construct natural language emails from raw data.
Mikel Maron’s Education
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University of Sussex
MSc , Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems , 2003 — 2004
Completed with Distinction in August, 2004
Dissertation: An Ecological Approach to the Evolution of Complexity
Major projects included:
* Evolutionary simulation of ant colony foraging
* Simulation of Industrial Melanism
* Research in spatial and stocahstic ecological models
* Finite State Machine based web screen scraping (My Yahoo 2 RSS) -
University of California, Santa Cruz
BA , Computer and Information Science , 1992 — 1996
Bachelor of Arts in Computer and Information Sciences, Theory Emphasis
Graduated with Honors in June, 1996
Major projects included:
* An adaptive agent for the game Othello
* Hyperspace visualization application
* An auditory cellular automata
* Universal Turing Machine
Additional Information
Mikel Maron’s Websites:
Mikel Maron’s Interests:
Bicycle Touring and Commuting. Wildlife and Restoration Ecology. Electronic music, sound synthesis, and animation. Power kiting. Sacred Geometry. Aikido. Snowboarding.
Mikel Maron’s Groups:
Board Member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation
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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) -
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WaterWiki Community (social platform for http://WaterWiki.net) -
United Wikis -
WaterWiki Development and SYSOP
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