RICHARD L. GIBSON

BOOKS

• Co-author of the O'Reilly book Google Maps Hacks, Jan 2006
• Co-author of the O'Reilly book Mapping Hacks (June 2005) , and co-maintainer of the Mapping Hacks.com web site.
• Contributed three hacks to the 2nd edition of Wireless Hacks: Get Google Maps on your Cell phone, Share your GPS, and Broadcast your position for all to see.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS, INSTALLATIONS, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOP PAPERS, COOL THINGS (with no other home)

• Author of Build a Google Earth Interface on Oracle Database XE
• Created probably the most extreme Marshmallow gun to date, with eight solenoid valves, driven by an air compressor (only four barrels have so far been enabled). Debuted at Foo Camp 2005.
• Panelist at the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network 2005 Bay Area Regional Conference, on the panel Innovation through Open APIs.
• Co-Developer of NoCat Maps, an online community network node database and link analysis tool. NoCat Maps is available at http://maps.nocat.net/.
• Developer or contributor to several CPAN modules. Audio::DSS, Geo::Track::Log, Geo::Proj4. Rich's CPAN directory is at http://search.cpan.org/~rgibson/.
• Various articles and Weblogs on the O'Reilly Network
• Co-Presenter of Geocoding great works of literature and Mapping the Wireless Revolution (revised) at Open Source Geospatial '05 conference, June 16-18, 2005, Minneapolis, MN
• Co-Presenter of Introduction to GRASS, an Open Source GIS at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, July 26-30, 2004, Portland, OR
• Co-Presenter of the Tutorial An Introduction to Open Source GIS at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, February 9-12, 2004, San Diego, CA
• Panelist at The Pulver Wireless Internet Summit on 'Growing Wireless Ecosystems" November 10-11, 2003, Santa Clara, CA
• Co-Presenter of Mapping the Wireless Revolution at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, April 22-25, 2003, Santa Clara, CA
• Former 'Map Guy' and one of early members of the NoCat Community Wireless Network in Sebastopol, CA.
• Created The Internet Dog House Probably the first internet connected dog house (with a computer inside showing pictures to passerby), June 2002, and intermittently ongoing, Sebastopol, CA

EXPERIENCE

• Working on implementing social search on Mass Media and blog news sources. Please email or call for details.

Chief Scientist  Locative Technologies - Present

• Rich is chief scientist at Locative Technologies, a Bay Area-based startup engaged in enterprises related to geoinformatics and digital cartography, with a heavy emphasis on Open Source software, collaborative/community cartography, policy activism, and public sector service.

Software Engineer  Financial Research Firm, Santa Rosa California, September 2002 - July 2005

• Completely reengineered system for delivering financial research.
• Created complete Intranet system for the collection, processing, and presentation of Financial Research
• Generated research as PDF's using the Apache Formatting Objects Parser
• Worked with FreeBSD/Linux/Apache/Perl/MySQL/OS X/Retrospect/Filemaker
• Details available on request

• Implemented UPS 'Return on the Web' functionality which allows people to print their own UPS shipping labels for their returned shoes.
• Wrote and implemented system to allow payments with the Military 'Star Card.'
• Worked with custom credit card systems
• Implemented various other tools
• Worked with FreeBSD/Linux/Apache/ModPerl/MySQL

• Developed 'FrameLogic' (tm by someone) code. This combined a CGI proxy with traditional frame code in order to carry the Planet Click 'rate and review' options along on a web session.
• Worked with Solaris and Linux/Apache/ModPerl/Oracle

• Worked on 'Webbification' of existing business simulation game. The game is a training tool used by a large international company. The project to bring this to the web was co-funded by the Italian government as an experiment in bringing new teaching methods to the web. The game itself involves approximately 6,500 lines of Perl, 70 HTML template pages (for each language), 39 data entry forms, and 3,000 distinct variables for each game period, for each participating user.
• Created zip code proximity lookup program for e-commerce site. The program is derived from my freely available zip code lookup at http://www.chilidog.com/zip/zipmain.html.
• Created Survey Reporting Program using Visual Basic 6.0. The program is a report generator that allows users to create formatted reports from data collected by a stand alone survey device. Features included fully customized reports, filters by report values, and normal, crosstab, and graphical views of the data. The program makes extensive use of the data access object (DAO).
• Designed and wrote programs and databases for medical database of 10,000 images using Cold Fusion and Perl. Created shopping cart and e-commerce interfaces.
• Wrote integrated web form processing system in Perl for product registration cards.
• Created various Web sites, and back end web site programming. Also assisted with class 'Web Programming 3410/4410' (HTML/CGI/Perl/Java) at University of Denver.

• Maintained, upgraded, and improved Foxpro and Access database programs for Real Estate 'BPO' processing. Also used Perl to prototype database supported Internet/Intranet site for data collection and dissemination via the Web.

• Designed, built, supported, and maintained heterogeneous Novell, Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0 network including remote TCP/IP dial up capability and Intranet web server.
• Created and maintained a 1.5 million record prospect database using Foxpro. Originally designed for 100 calls per day, was able to handle up to 6000 new prospects per day entered by up to 20 telephone representatives.
• Designed and wrote programs to automatically download, index, and convert reports from our transfer agent into HTML for distribution on our Intranet.
• Installed multiple line Direct Inward Dial fax server on our Windows NT network and managed AT&T Definity Phone Switch and Intuity Audix.

• Ran successful computer consulting company providing sales, support, service, and custom programming (using Dbase, Foxpro, Visual Basic and C) for PC's and PC based networks.

• Maintained a 500,000+ line Real Estate office management system in UCSD Pascal.