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jdwcornell

I'm Jason Woodward, a software engineering director in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.

Find me on twitter as @jdwcornell, on facebook and on linkedin. My OpenID is http://openid.jwoodward.com/jason. You can email me.

Find my primary-but-not-frequently-updated blog on blogger. My now-defunct Ithaca Gun demolition blog also resides there. Unfortunately they haven't moved much past demolition in their quest to build townhouses on the property.

I'm active with the HighEdWeb organization, having presented at several past conferences, organizing a couple of regional conferences, and most recently being invited to be on the program committee of the annual conference.

2010 - HighEdWeb technical track co-chair; Client-side interactivity with jQuery workshop; CMSDK: Understanding the Building Blocks of CMSes presentation
2010 - HighEdWeb Regional at Vassar program lead
2009 - HighEdWeb: Client-side interactivity with jQuery workshop; HTTP 101 - Or, What Exactly IS Under the Hood? presentation
2009 - HighEdWeb Regional at Cornell organizer
2008 - HighEdWeb: Information Interoperability on the Web - An Introduction to XML and XSLT workshop; HTTP 101 - Or, What Exactly IS Under the Hood? presentation
2007 - HighEdWeb: Software Engineering in Higher Ed Roundtable workshop; HTTP 101 - Or, What Exactly IS Under the Hood? presentation (voted best in category); Site Content Gathering Techniques poster
2006 - HighEdWeb: Applying Professional Software Engineering Techniques in PHP to Nonprofit Web Application Shops workshop; Case Study: Course Evaluation and Student Employment System Integration poster

I also speak at venues at Cornell and elsewhere, notably:

2010 - Penn State Web Conference invited speaker; Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Information Inference in Project Management presentation; Client-side Interactivity Through Javascript - jQuery and AJAX workshop
2009 - Cornell Information Technologies ATA: IT Architecture Forums 2009 - Information Accessibility in Administrative Computing Tools

Periodically I'll build some interesting (to me; YMMV) software. Recent-ish minor wins include:

implemented OpenID provider for Google Apps for Domains at http://openid.jwoodward.com
implemented Mercurial extension to integrate with Cornell's SSO mechanism

Previously I was:

2003 - 2008: Senior Web Systems Analyst at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration; architected and built web administrative systems; notably a Contribute <-> Perforce WebDAV+XML shim to create a Web CMS that only gets in your way a little bit, instead of a lot
2004 - 2007: Graduate student at Cornell University in the Computer Science department
1998 - 2002: Senior Software Engineer at EMusic.com; architected and built, or substantially contributed to, the web infrastructure in use prior to 2002 acquisition. Original author and maintainer of FreeAmp (now Zinf).
1993 - 1998: Undergraduate at Cornell University in the Computer Science department
1989 - 1993: High School in Baltimore, MD at St. Paul's

Hopefully that helps disambiguate me from the other folks named Jason Woodward out there!

And yes. A web software person with a Google Apps-hosted domain complete with CMS-based (Sites) front page. I can hear you chuckling from here.

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