Currently work as a Programmer/Analyst for the Solar Data Analysis Center, mostly focusing on the Virtual Solar Observatory. Assisted with the Space Physics community's Space Physics Archive Search & Extract.

I have a degree in Information Management, and have been spending the past few years trying to bridge the library & science communities, including:

• Secretary for ASIS&T's Science and Technical Information SIG;
• Member of AGU's Earth and Space Science Informatics focus group (but threw election for Secretary after seeing the AGU's response to the OSTP RFI on public access to publications.) I run the 'ESSI message board' at the fall meeting & circulated a petition in 2011 to 'Free the AGU Session Data'
• Participated in BRDI's meeting on Data Citation and have done a number of presentations related to the recommendation for Landing Pages.
• Currently working w/ Todd King on documenting vocabulary used to discuss scientific data systems as a side project.
• Organizer of the Research Data Access & Preservation summit and the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop

Also a municipal elected official.