Brief Biography

• Born June 10, 1980 in Beaumont, Texas
• Linux user since 1996
• Studied Computer Science, mostly at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Was primarily interested in Genetic Algorithms and Quantum Computation
• Have been in Germany since 2001, am now a permanent resident
• Co-founded Directed Edge in Berlin, Germany in 2008
• Worked for Native Instruments in Berlin, Germany from 2006 - 2008
• Previously at the SAP LinuxLab in Walldorf, Germany from 2002 - 2006
• Author of JuK, FlashKard, TagLib, KSig, and a few classes in the libraries, fixed a bunch of bugs
• Currently dabbling in Information Retrieval and generalized desktop linkage strategies

• A couple of publications:

  • KDE-Applikationen von der Kommandozeile aus bedienen, Linux-Magazin, January 2004
  • KDE Scripting With DCOP, Linux Magazine, Issue 36, November 2003
  • Origin of correlated electron emission in double ionization of atoms, Physical Review A 66, 061402, Issue 6 - December 2002, S. L. Haan, P. S. Wheeler, R. Panfili, and J. H. Eberly

• Long running symbiosis between music and technology

  • Play electric and double bass, guitar, hand percussion, and earlier in my life a few other instruments
  • Started amassing studio equipment and doing ad hoc production and editing as a young teenager
  • Work for a company that produces electronic music production software
  • Produce some electronica myself, a departure from my former life in rock, blues and jazz
  • First GUI program (circa 1994) was for organizing guitar tableture
  • Large music collection (several hundred CDs, now MP3s) drew me to organization and metadata
• Stockpiler of books and arm-chair enthusiast in philosophy, history, politics, literature
• Visited 26 countries on 5 continents
• Speak German and Spanish at a conversational level

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