Aaron Straup Cope

Email: resume@aaronstraupcope.com
URL: http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/

Professional Objective

The promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities. I am looking for opportunities to design and build the tools that will continue to realize the Idea of the network.

Core Competencies

ProgrammingPerl (8 years), PHP (7 years), XSLT/XSL-FO (6 years), Python (2 years), SVG (1 year).

System administrationBSD/Linux, Apache, Jabber, MySQL, CVS (6 years).

Web Development / Graphic design(X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (10 years).

LanguagesEnglish, French.

Employment History

Hackr
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)
2008

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

Series 60 mobile phone tools
2008

“Because the addressbook is still the center of everything.” restobook [2] ; nwtracker [3] ; upcalendar [4] ; locatr [5]

filtr
2005-Present

Teaching camera phones to sing. [6]

SVG Travel Map
2008

SVG/XSLT application [7] for animating a travel itinerary on a user-defined map surface.

Image Widget
2004-Present

Framework for building cross-platform GUI applications to display random images pulled the Internets. Working builds include widgets for the Mirror Project [8] (OS X [9] ) an Flickr [10] .

XML Résumé formatting extensions
2003-Present

XSLT stylesheets for extending the formatting options [11] of the XML Résumé Library.

Aaron's New York Times Widgets
2002-Present

Tools, and visualizations, for data-mining [12] the New York Times.

Eatdrinkfeelgood
2001-Present

XML/XSLT application for publishing recipes [13] , meal courses and entire menus.

The Mirror Project
2001-Present

Community-based web site [14] to promote and showcase "adventures in reflective surfaces".

Education

Publications

Interests

Miscellany

Code samples : Perl [17] ; Python [18] ; XSL [19]

The Net::Google [20] Perl library was the subject of Michael Schilli's article Google-Hupf [21] , 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 [22] .

This document is available in the following formats : text [23] , HTML [24] , PDF [25] and XML [26] . It is also available in French [27] .

References

Available upon request.

External links

Last modified 10 September 2006.