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                                                         Jamie Zawinski
                                                          jwz@lucid.com
                                                      810 San Luis Road
                                               Berkeley, CA  94707-2053
                                                         (510) 527-2369
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EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVE
     To improve people's lives through software.  My interests include
     user interface design, programming tools, graphics, information
     management, privacy, security, and the net in general.

EXPERIENCE
   * Scientist, Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
     June 1990 - present.

     Primary developer and maintainer of Lucid Emacs, a popular version
     of the GNU Emacs text editor for Unix.  Lucid Emacs has much
     better integration with the X window system, and many user
     interface improvements, including multiple fonts, multiple
     windows, and inline graphics.  Designed and implemented an
     extensible menubar, popup menu, and dialog box facility;
     redesigned and reimplemented the underlying command loop for more
     general keyboard and mouse handling; integrated with the Motif,
     Xt, and Open Look Intrinsics toolkits.

     Coordinated and directed the testing of Lucid Emacs by nearly a
     hundred beta testers across the network.  Handled the release and
     distribution of Lucid Emacs both through Lucid's release process
     and to the network at large.

     Managed mailing lists and USENET newsgroups devoted to user
     discussion of the editor (best estimates place these newsgroups at
     30,000-40,000 readers.) Tracked user bugs and worked closely with
     users to integrate their fixes and improvements back into the
     distribution.

     Integrated Lucid Emacs with the Energize Programming System, a
     development environment for C and C++.  Lucid Emacs comprises the
     primary user interface to Energize.

     Implemented an optimizing byte-compiler for Emacs Lisp.

     Wrote and distributed numerous X programs, including: xkeycaps, a
     graphical utility that lets the user interactively re-map their
     keyboard without having to learn the complex syntax of the
     standard X keyboard-remapping tool; xdaliclock, a morphing digital
     clock; xscreensaver, a highly extensible screen saver and locker,
     and a number of graphics demos to go with it.

     Implemented BBDB (the Insidious Big Brother Database), a
     rolodex-like system for tracking names, phone numbers, addresses,
     and email addresses, and any other person-oriented information.
     BBDB tightly integrates with the various Emacs-based mail and news
     readers, and is highly automatable and extensible - it tends to
     silently "notice" information that passes by without explicit
     interaction by the user, so that the information is readily
     available later.

     Wrote audio-tape.ps, a popular program for printing labels for the
     boxes of audio tapes of all varieties, implemented entirely in
     PostScript.  It includes dozens of options, complicated automatic
     text-sizing features, and the ability to include arbitrary
     graphics on the labels.

     Worked on QLISP, a futures-based multiprocessor version of Lucid
     Common Lisp running on an 8 processor Alliant Concentrix.
     Implemented a more efficient kind of process object to take better
     advantage of parallelism.

     Worked on porting Lucid Common Lisp to new architectures.

     Represented Lucid at several trade shows.

   * Programmer/Analyst, University of California, Berkeley, CA
     August 1989 - June 1990.

     Member of a small research group developing a natural language
     help system.  Implemented a relation-based knowledge
     representation language, and performed various system software
     maintenance and tools development tasks on Texas Instruments
     Explorer Lisp Machines.

   * Software Engineer, Expert Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
     May 1986 - August 1989.

     Member of the team that designed and implemented an expert system
     for the automatic pagination of the Yellow Pages on TI Explorers.

     Designed and implemented a window toolkit which allowed the use of
     a Macintosh-like user interface on top of the Explorer "tiled"
     window system.

     Designed and implemented a hierarchical frames system for use as a
     general purpose database.  Built on this an application which
     allowed the pagination system to store its hierarchy of rules and
     parameters.  Implemented a complex frame and tree editor,
     including an undo facility, and a mechanism for editing the source
     code of rules.

     Implemented a device-independent document processing system
     similar to the Scribe document processing language.  This was
     written in portable Common Lisp and included support for
     PostScript output, as well as the ability to generate hypertext
     documents for the Explorer online manual browsing system.

   * Programmer, Spice Lisp Project, Carnegie Mellon University,
     Pittsburgh, PA
     April 1985 - May 1986.

     Worked on the implementation of Hemlock, an Emacs-like text editor
     implemented in Spice Lisp (now CMU Common Lisp) on a Perq Systems
     workstation.

SKILLS
     Very experienced with C, Lisp, PostScript, and the Flavors and
     CLOS object systems.  Some experience with assembly languages.

     Very knowledgeable about UNIX, X, Emacs, Lisp Machines, and lisp
     internals in general.

     Efficiency, modularity, robustness.  Purity of Essence.

