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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak (more CuteQuotes)Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin; UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good. | ||||||||
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| My Christmas list: TobyXmasList2001. | ||||||||
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| > > | I volunteer some of my free time to the GNU Project ( http://www.gnu.org ). I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, which means that I try to help people who are helping the GNU project. If you don't know about Free Software I'd strongly recommend that you check out their web site. I don't have a lot of time to give them, but I'm glad to help. | |||||||
| Given that I've had a little time on my hands I've been playing around with application development technologies. The combination of databases, scripting languages, and Web user interfaces is | ||||||||
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| SETI project. Despite my meager PII/450, I seem to be doing pretty well. shhh... don't tell but my work machine is also crunching away (at night anyway) | ||||||||
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| Here's my resume (courtesy of Pronet), and an informal resume (actually an email that I wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do not ask me to send you a copy in Word format. | ||||||||
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| < < | At work I'm the CTO of a small software company called SaltFire which builds business infrastructure for communications carriers. If you're interested in what the future of OSS looks like, email me at toby@saltfire.com. | |||||||
| > > | At work I'm a development director at a small software company in Kendall Square called Black Ink Systems ( http://www.blackinksystems.com/ ). It's a fun place to work; we're building real-time financial analytics software for communications carriers. It's a small high-octane team, and the product that we're building is different and interesting. It's basically a "magic mirror" that shows people what their network is doing from a financial perspective, i.e. revenues, costs, margins, etc. If we're successful then people will be able to manage their networks as if they were a portfolio of financial instruments. My job is to design things, write good code, and in general try to share some of my experience with the development team (who are very bright but pretty junior). Before Black Ink I was the CTO and co-founder of a software startup called SaltFire which built financial transaction processing infrastructure for communications carriers. Starting a company was a very interesting experience and while the company wasn't successful I'm glad that I took the leap. I learned a lot and met some very cool people. | |||||||
| Before SaltFire I worked for Kenan Systems | ||||||||
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| company until the founder got greedy and sold out to Lucent in early '99. "Welcome to the Bell System, employee number 156,892. | ||||||||
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| < < | Please see the nurse for your implant." | |||||||
| > > | Please see the nurse for your implant." Working for the phone company (or at least one of the fragments of it) was interesting but it reinforced my belief that small companies are where it's at. Given that there's really no better job security at a place like Lucent than at a startup there's not a lot to recommend working there. | |||||||
| Before that I lived in Rhode Island and worked for GTECH. The technology is interesting and the people are great but after the founders left | ||||||||