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Greater Seattle Area

From my first line of code to exploration of computation theory made practical with The Miser Project

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Served as an initial member of the Apache OpenOffice podling Project Management Committee. Continuing as contributor to the top-level Apache OpenOffice project, and an initial committer on the Apache Corinthia Incubator Project for the time it was in the Apache Incubator.

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A volunteer position accountable to the ASF Board as Chair of the OpenOffice Project Management Committee, with attention to how the project operates to assure sustainability in providing software as a public good.

Greater Seattle Area

Originally InfoNuovo in Mountain View, California, NuovoDoc is the business name of my independent consultancy following retirement from Xerox Corporation in December, 1998. Situated in Seattle, Washington since 1999, NuovoDoc projects and independent-contractor services are focused on design for document system interoperability.

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Member of the OASIS OpenDocument TC and the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC. Participated in the finalization of the ODF 1.2 specification, including editing of Part 3 on packaging. Also member of the Test Assertions Guidelines TC and on the OASIS liaison to the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 WG6 (ODF Maintenance) and the WG1 Study Period for Zip Format Standardization

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Working in the effort to align ISO/IEC 26300:2006 and the OASIS ODF 1.1 Standard, I developed the ODF 1.1 Errata 01 to complete the technical alignment of the OASIS and the ISO/IEC specifications.

Mountain View, California

General observer and participant in the public workshops

Palo Alto, California

Moving to the Systems Architecture organization within Corporate Research and Technology, I continued working on the Document Management Alliance API and specifications, with particular attention to internal adoption and promotion of technical interoperability in document-system architecture efforts.

Palo Alto, California

I transferred to the Palo Alto based software-products division of Xerox Corporation to work as the software architect for document management products. Serving as lead architect for the Document Enabled Networking joint initiative with Novell, I also continued with the architecture of the Document Management Alliance DMA 1.0 specification as well as encouraging support for the Open Document Management API (ODMA).

Rochester, New York Area

I returned to Xerox Corporation for work on creation of interoperability in the development of under-development digital, networked products accompanying the introduction of the Xerox Docutech. This work grew into architectural assignment for the development of document filing and retrieval systems and the pilot CLASS project for digital library and course-material systems.

Rochester, New York Area

On individual contracts and through local consulting firms in Rochester, New York, provided risk analysis and contingency planning for information systems; performed business planning and acquisition analysis for computer services firm; with a variety of system-study, technical-proposal, software quality-assurance, and microcomputer software-development projects. All assignments involved a high degree of autonomy, development of high-level presentations requiring understanding of customer requirements and clear articulation of supplier specifications.

Rochester, New York Area

This position was in the internal information systems development organization where we worked to create the first on-line corporate data processing system using a combination of Xerox Data Systems and IBM mainframe technology. As a systems architect I also worked on systems planning, requirements definition, and proposal evaluation assignments. Working and a chief designer and programmer I was involved in application interfaces for mainframe and network middleware, minicomputer software, network mail and terminal-driver subsystems, and a manufacturing-quality monitoring system. I was also the employee chairman of the Organizational Effectiveness Team, the first white-collar quality-circle effort in the corporation.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Area

This year as an independent consultant was primarily involved in the software support of the Univac 1108 system as a subcontractor to other organizations.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Area

I started out as a Sales Support Specialist (programmer) in the Seattle Branch office of Remington Rand Univac, transferring to the New York City Application Software Development team of what was by then the Univac Division of Sperry Rand in 1961. I worked in software quality assurance, software methodology, industry standards, and programming-language architecture, ending my career there at the Blue Bell, Pennsylvania headquarters of Sperry Univac (now Unisys). A high point of my experience in the mid 1960s was being exposed to Bill Burge and Peter Landin and the ISWIM project at Univac, inspiring my abiding interest in functional programming.

Seattle, Washington

There were no part-time or student programmer positions, so the Division of Counseling and Testing Services hired me as a clerk typist. We used the IBM 650 in the tower of Bagley Hall to process grade reports on punched cards as part of the validation of the statewide collegiate grade-prediction program in Washington. There was also programming to support research projects and we collected and supported a catalog of social-science software programs and utilities. My first assembly-language programming project was taking over a program for a medical researcher when a housemate moved to Syracuse and I picked up the $100 job. I actually wrote it in machine language because I didn't understand the assembler. Later, I developed utilities and three of us, Duane Hudson, Darrell High, and myself developed "SOAP H" by tightening the SOAP II code and adding in features we wanted. My contribution was a loader for relocating code that I could never get going as fast as the card reader. (I also didn't learn Don Knuth's technique for dealing with latency in relocatable code until I met him in 1962.)

Renton, Washington

My first experience with computers, preparing and analyzing data, learning to write small Fortran programs. My first effort at a Fortran program attempted to perform polynomial approximations using a text-book method that fails for roots, my first direct experience of the difference between mathematics and computation and the need for numerical analysis. I was also working with a serious engineer and what we would later call a super user. That was invaluable experience.

Postgraduate Diploma, Information Technology

I participated in an on-line program of the University of Liverpool delivered by KIT eLearning (now Laureate Online Education), completing.

Curriculum For Living

Activities and Societies: Team Management and Leadership Program, Introduction Leaders Program, The Wisdom Course, Course Supervisor Program

Ba, Liberal Studies

Obtained credit for coursework for a Computer Science major by receiving a high score on the Computer Science Graduate Record Exam (.