Aaron Straup Cope - Résumé - page Aaron Straup Cope Email: resume@aaronstraupcope.com URL: http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/ Professional Objective The promise of the Internet is to serve as a catalyst for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities. I am looking for opportunities to design and build the tools that will continue to realize the potential of the network, with a particular interest in Open Source, RDF and SVG technologies. Core Competencies Programming: Perl (7 years), PHP (6 years), XSLT/XSL-FO (5 years), Python (1 year), SVG (1 year), Java (learning). System administration: BSD/Linux, Apache, Jabber, MySQL, CVS (6 years). Web Development / Graphic design: (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (10 years). Languages: English, French. Employment History Hackr (Technical Yahoo) Yahoo! (Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A.) 2005–Present Developer for the Flickr [1] photo sharing/management web application. Hackr Ludicorp Research & Development (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 2005 Developer for the Flickr [1] photo sharing/management web application. Lead developer / system administrator Vineyard.NET Inc. (Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, U.S.A) 2001–2004 Web applications, and systems integration, for customer account management; web application for real estate property management; oversaw all web-related infrastructure; Lead web developer Broadband2Wireless (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A) 2000–2001 Web applications for managing remote data collection; spreadsheet hacking; oversaw requirements guidelines for all company intranets and public web sites. Web developer / graphic designer Vineyard.NET Inc. (Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, U.S.A) 1997–2000 Graphic-design; user-interface design; CGI scripting. Open Source Projects SVG Travel Map 2004 SVG/XSLT application [2] for animating a travel itinerary on a user-defined map surface. The Mirror Project Random Image Widget 2004 Cross-platform GUI application [3] to display random images from the Mirror Project. XML Résumé formatting extensions 2003–Present XSLT stylesheets for extending the formatting options [4] of the XML Résumé Library. Aaron's New York Times Widgets 2002–Present Tools, and visualizations, for data-mining [5] the New York Times. Eatdrinkfeelgood 2001–Present XML/XSLT application for publishing recipes [6] , meal courses and entire menus. The Mirror Project 2001–Present Community-based web site [7] to promote and showcase "adventures in reflective surfaces". Education Studies in Studio arts, 1993–1997 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) Publications • "Eat Drink Feel Good Markup Language [8] ". XML.com (O'Reilly Media Inc.). Interests • Painting and drawing • Cooking • Gardening • History • Tai Chi. Teaching assistant, Taoist Tai Chi Society [9] . Miscellany Code samples : Perl [10] ; Python [11] ; XSL [12] The Net::Google [13] Perl library was the subject of Michael Schilli's article Google-Hupf [14] , for the German Linux Magazin. As author of the package, I was interviewed by CNET News for an article on the Google SOAP APIs, Developers dig in to Google's toolbox [15] . This document is available in the following formats : text [16] , HTML [17] , PDF [18] and XML [19] . It is also available in French [20] . References Available upon request. External links   1. http://www.flickr.com/   2. http://aaronland.info/xsl/svg/svg-travel-map/   3. http://www.mirrorproject.com/widget   4. http://aaronland.info/xsl/xmlresume/   5. http://www.aaronland.info/nytimes/   6. http://www.eatdrinkfeelgood.org/   7. http://www.mirrorproject.com/   8. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/16/edfg.html   9. http://www.taichitaoiste.org/ 10. http://search.cpan.org/~ascope 11. http://www.aaronland.info/python/ 12. http://www.aaronland.info/xsl/ 13. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Google 14. http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2002/10/perl/perl.html 15. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-884546.html 16. http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt 17. http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.html 18. http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.pdf 19. http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.xml 20. http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/fr/ Last modified 16 August 2005.