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  <header>
    <name>
      <firstname>Aaron</firstname>
      <middlenames>Straup</middlenames>
      <surname>Cope</surname>
    </name>
    <contact>
      <email>resume@aaronstraupcope.com</email>
      <url>http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/</url>
    </contact>
  </header>
  <objective>
    <para>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.</para>
  </objective>
  <skillarea>
    <title>Core Competencies</title>
    <skillset>
      <title>Programming</title>
      <skill>Perl (8 years)</skill>
      <skill>PHP (7 years)</skill>
      <skill>XSLT/XSL-FO (6 years)</skill>
      <skill>Python (2 years)</skill>
      <skill>SVG (1 year)</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>System administration</title>
      <skill>BSD/Linux, Apache, Jabber, MySQL, CVS (6 years)</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Web Development / Graphic design</title>
      <skill>(X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (10 years)</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <title>Languages</title>
      <skill>English</skill>
      <skill>French</skill>
    </skillset>
  </skillarea>
  <history>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Hackr</jobtitle>
      <employer>Yahoo!</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Sunnyvale</city>
        <state>California</state>
        <country>U.S.A.</country>
      </location>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2005</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <present/>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>Developer for the <link href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</link> photo sharing/management web application.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Hackr</jobtitle>
      <employer>Ludicorp Research &amp; Development</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Vancouver</city>
        <state>British Columbia</state>
        <country>Canada</country>
      </location>
      <date>
        <year>2005</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>Developer for the <link href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</link> photo sharing/management web application.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Lead developer / system administrator</jobtitle>
      <employer>Vineyard.NET Inc.</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Vineyard Haven</city>
        <state>Massachusetts</state>
        <country>U.S.A</country>
      </location>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2001</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <date>
            <year>2004</year>
          </date>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>Web applications, and systems integration, for customer account management; web
      application for real estate property management; oversaw all web-related infrastructure;</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Lead web developer</jobtitle>
      <employer>Broadband2Wireless</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Boston</city>
        <state>Massachusetts</state>
        <country>U.S.A</country>
      </location>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2000</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <date>
            <year>2001</year>
          </date>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>Web applications for managing remote data collection;
	spreadsheet hacking; oversaw requirements guidelines for
	all company intranets and public web sites.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Web developer / graphic designer</jobtitle>
      <employer>Vineyard.NET Inc.</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Vineyard Haven</city>
        <state>Massachusetts</state>
        <country>U.S.A</country>
      </location>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>1997</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <date>
            <year>2000</year>
          </date>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>Graphic-design; user-interface design; CGI scripting.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
  </history>
  <activities>
    <activity>
      <title>Series 60 mobile phone tools</title>
      <date>
        <year>2006</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>“Because the addressbook is still the center of everything.” <link href="http://aaronland.info/weblog/2006/07/03/smoking#restobook">restobook</link>; <link href="http://aaronland.info/weblog/2006/08/04/zebra#watching">nwtracker</link>; <link href="http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/08/04/zebra/#upcalendar">upcalendar</link>; <link href="http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/09/09/patience/#locatr">locatr</link></para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>filtr</title>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2005</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <present/>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>
          <link href="http://aaronland.info/weblog/2006/07/31/baconmelon#filtr">Teaching camera phones to sing.</link>
        </para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>SVG Travel Map</title>
      <date>
        <year>2004</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para><link href="http://aaronland.info/xsl/svg/svg-travel-map/">SVG/XSLT
    application</link> for animating a travel itinerary on a user-defined
    map surface.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>Image Widget</title>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2004</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <present/>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>Framework for building cross-platform GUI applications to display random images pulled the Internets. Working builds include widgets for  the <link href="http://www.mirrorproject.com/widget">Mirror Project</link> (<link href="http://aaronland.info/python/MirrorProjectWidget/">OS X</link>) an <link href="http://aaronland.info/python/FlickrWidgt/">Flickr</link>.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>XML Résumé formatting extensions</title>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2003</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <present/>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para><link href="http://aaronland.info/xsl/xmlresume/">XSLT
      stylesheets for extending the formatting
      options</link> of the XML Résumé
      Library.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>Aaron's New York Times Widgets</title>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2002</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <present/>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para><link href="http://www.aaronland.info/nytimes/">Tools, and visualizations, for
      data-mining</link> the New York Times.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>Eatdrinkfeelgood</title>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2001</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <present/>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para><link href="http://www.eatdrinkfeelgood.org/">XML/XSLT application for publishing recipes</link>, meal courses and
	entire menus.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>The Mirror Project</title>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2001</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <present/>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para><link href="http://www.mirrorproject.com/">Community-based web site</link> to promote
	and showcase "adventures in reflective surfaces".</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
  </activities>
  <academics>
    <degrees>
      <degree>
        <level>Studies</level>
        <major>Studio arts</major>
        <period>
          <from>
            <date>
              <year>1993</year>
            </date>
          </from>
          <to>
            <date>
              <year>1997</year>
            </date>
          </to>
        </period>
        <institution>Nova Scotia College of Art and Design</institution>
        <location>
          <city>Halifax</city>
          <province>Nova Scotia</province>
          <country>Canada</country>
        </location>
      </degree>
    </degrees>
  </academics>
  <pubs>
    <pub>
      <artTitle>
        <link href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/16/edfg.html">Eat Drink Feel Good Markup Language</link>
      </artTitle>
      <publisher>XML.com (O'Reilly Media Inc.)</publisher>
    </pub>
  </pubs>
  <interests>
    <interest>
      <title>Painting and drawing</title>
    </interest>
    <interest>
      <title>Cooking</title>
    </interest>
    <interest>
      <title>Gardening</title>
    </interest>
    <interest>
      <title>History</title>
    </interest>
    <interest>
      <title>Tai Chi</title>
      <description>
        <para>Teaching assistant, <link href="http://www.taichitaoiste.org/">Taoist Tai Chi Society</link>.</para>
      </description>
    </interest>
  </interests>
  <misc>
    <para>Code samples : <link href="http://search.cpan.org/~ascope">Perl</link>; <link href="http://www.aaronland.info/python/">Python</link>; <link href="http://www.aaronland.info/xsl/">XSL</link></para>
    <para>The <link href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Google">Net::Google</link>
    Perl library was the subject of Michael Schilli's article <link href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2002/10/perl/perl.html">Google-Hupf</link>,
    for the German Linux Magazin. As author of the package, I was
    interviewed by CNET News for an article on
    the Google SOAP APIs, <link href="http://news.com.com/2100-1023-884546.html">Developers dig in to
    Google's toolbox</link>.</para>
    <para>This document is available in the following formats :
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     and
     <link href="http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.xml">XML</link>. It is also available in <link href="http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/fr/">French</link>.
    </para>
  </misc>
  <referees>
<!--Available upon request.-->
  </referees>
  <lastModified>
    <date>
      <dayOfMonth>10</dayOfMonth>
      <month>September</month>
      <year>2006</year>
    </date>
  </lastModified>
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