Aaron Straup Cope - Résumé


Contact Information:

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:

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

    Series 60 mobile phone tools
    2006
    “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
    2004
    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:

    Studies in Studio arts, 1993-1997
    Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
    

Publications:

    "Eat Drink Feel Good Markup Language [15] ". XML.com (O'Reilly
    Media Inc.).


Interests:

    * Painting and drawing
    * Cooking
    * Gardening
    * History
    * Tai Chi. Teaching assistant, Taoist Tai Chi Society [16] .
    

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:

     1.  http://www.flickr.com/
     2.  http://aaronland.info/weblog/2006/07/03/smoking#restobook
     3.  http://aaronland.info/weblog/2006/08/04/zebra#watching
     4.  http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/08/04/zebra/#upcalendar
     5.  http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/09/09/patience/#locatr
     6.  http://aaronland.info/weblog/2006/07/31/baconmelon#filtr
     7.  http://aaronland.info/xsl/svg/svg-travel-map/
     8.  http://www.mirrorproject.com/widget
     9.  http://aaronland.info/python/MirrorProjectWidget/
    10.  http://aaronland.info/python/FlickrWidgt/
    11.  http://aaronland.info/xsl/xmlresume/
    12.  http://www.aaronland.info/nytimes/
    13.  http://www.eatdrinkfeelgood.org/
    14.  http://www.mirrorproject.com/
    15.  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/16/edfg.html
    16.  http://www.taichitaoiste.org/
    17.  http://search.cpan.org/~ascope
    18.  http://www.aaronland.info/python/
    19.  http://www.aaronland.info/xsl/
    20.  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Google
    21.  http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2002/10/perl/perl.html
    22.  http://news.com.com/2100-1023-884546.html
    23.  http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt
    24.  http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.html
    25.  http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.pdf
    26.  http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.xml
    27.  http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/fr/



Last modified 10 September 2006.