David M. "Novalis" Turner
106 Garfield Pl
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(617)-441-0668
novalis@novalis.org
Skills:
- Recently used programming languages: Python, JavaScript, SQL, Ruby, C++, Perl, Java.
- Less recently used languages: C, Intel assembly language (including SIMD instructions), JLex and CUP (Lex and YACC for Java), Visual Basic and QBasic, Pascal.
- Development technologies: Pylons, Ruby on Rails, Greasemonkey, GNU/Linux (Debian, RedHat), Qt and PyQt, Glib, CGI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HTML, Parse::RecDescent, X11, AWT, Kyra
- Software licensing: Code audits, derivative works, GPL and LGPL
application.
- Other skills: Technical writing and editing, image manipulation
with GIMP, photography, lecturing and teaching.
Employment:
The Open Planning Project New York, NY September, 2006 - present
Software Engineer:
- Develop web-based collaboration platform using Zope and Pylons
- Design and implement security strategies
- Interview developers
- Contribute to free software projects that TOPP depends on
Free Software Foundation Boston, MA November, 2001 - September 2006
Free Software Licensing Guru and GPL Compliance Engineer:
- Develop licensing strategy
- Lecture about Free Software licensing
- Answer Free Software licensing questions
- Investigate Free Software licensing violations
- Write software to check copyright assignments
- Write new versions of GNU GPL and LGPL
i-site, inc Philadelphia, PA July, 2000 - November 2001
Programmer:
- Designed and program web applications in Perl.
- Administered servers running Red Hat Linux.
- Built dynamic web pages from designs.
Reed College Portland, OR Fall, 1999
Lab Assistant:
- Helped students to write and debug Java programs for Computer Science course.
- Explained Computer Science concepts to students.
Free Software Work:
- SQLObject committer
- Inkscape committer
- Wrote a RSS aggregator
- Write small games using Java and PyQt
- Answer licensing questions on behalf of the Free Software Foundation.
- Lectured about Free Software in six countries.
- Contributed sprite compression code to Worldforge.
- Contributed modules to the Art Of Illusion 3d modeller and renderer.
- Wrote several WindowMaker Dock applets.
- Managed and edited the Worldforge website, create accounts for new members, moderate mailing lists, administer the IRC server.
Education:
- Reed College, Portland, OR, Fall 1998 - Spring 2000
- Friends Select School, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
Hobbies:
Building puzzles, cooking, science fiction and fantasy, travel,
photography, Scrabble, glassblowing