I’m an engineering manager, software engineer, and web standards professional with twenty five years experience at organizations of all sizes.
Engineering Manager, Apple, –
Web Standards & Evangelism, –
Web Standards, –
Web Standards Lead, –
I manage teams of engineers and evangelists who represent Apple, Safari, and WebKit to the wider world, and who contribute to web standards, WebKit, and WPT.
I mentor engineers across Apple to help them navigate standards bodies, to become effective participants in them, and to take on leadership roles in them. I also set standards policy for Safari & WebKit and for the WebKit Open Source Project.
Standards
Ecma International, –
President, –
Executive Committee (ExeCom), –
General Assembly (GA), –
General Assembly Alternate, –
As President, I chair General Assembly meetings, serve ex officio on the Executive Committee, sign agreements on behalf of Ecma, and confer regularly with its Secretariat. For Apple, I’m the individual responsible for our relationship with Ecma.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), –
Advisory Board (AB), –
Advisory Committee (AC), –
Technical Architecture Group (TAG), –
I’m the person primarily responsible for managing Apple’s relationship with the W3C.
I’ve proposed & designed a number of Web platform features in over a dozen working groups over many years. I’ve edited a number of documents, including HTML5, the CSS Transforms Module, the Storage Access API, and the Security & Privacy Questionnaire. I chaired the HTML WG and chair both the Privacy and Process CGs.
WHATWG, –
Alternate Steering Group (SG) Representative, –
I’ve proposed, designed, or helped to design several features—such as
<dialog>
and
<img
srcset>—for
HTML and
other
WHATWG specs.
I helped to design WHATWG’s current structure and governance, and I employ Apple’s Steering Group Representative.
QTPAC, SFUSD, –
QTPAC advocates for the needs of queer & trans SFUSD students and their families.
Software Engineer, Teradata, –
I was an engineer on Teradata Viewpoint, a web app for monitoring Teradata devices.
Software Engineer, Freelance, –
I did web development for a number of clients, including Parker Wallace and Teradata.
Software Engineer, Eventful, –
I was a full-stack engineer on an events and venues search engine. In addition to work on the site, I implemented and maintained Eventful’s Python API client library.
Programmer & Sysadmin, Tomo, –
I developed several web apps used for the administration and asset management of a massively-multiplayer simulation and maintained its server infrastructure.
Sysadmin, UCSD, –
I built, configured, and managed high-performance computing clusters used at the Jacobs School of Engineering and SIO. I managed large numbers of deployed servers and workstations running FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
Programmer & Sysadmin, Bomis, –
I developed features for various Bomis properties and administered all Bomis, Nupedia, and Wikipedia servers. I developed a number of features for Wikipedia, including the code that first enabled math articles to contain TeX and LaTeX expressions.
BSc, Computer Science, Rose-Hulman,
I am a citizen of the United States. My partner, daughter, and I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are open to international relocation.