Yes, I did C and C++ first.

And much assembler before that.

I'm the applications analyst for:

• Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association
• North Carolina Coastal Ocean Observing System
• Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System

among other things.

I facilitate TriZPUG meetings at UNC, organize Python, Zope, and Plone boot camps and sprints as well as develop and teach PyCamp for TriZPUG. I founded the fledgling UNC Python and Zope User Group.

My interests are marine embedded systems and coastal telemetry, data visualization, geographic information systems, and online collaboration software.

I love TriZPUG and the larger Python open source community. TriZPUG and the Plone community have been immensely supportive.

I have some thoughts on what constitutes content management.

Here are presentations I've given to TriZPUG or UNCZPUG which have slides:

• My ongoing, frequently updated presentation What You Need to Know About Python presented at Plone Conference 2009/2008 and Plone Symposium East 2009 Online • ZIP
• Recent Developments with ZopeSkel (Plone Conference 2009 talk) PDF
• Python Decorators Online • PDF • ODP
• Python List Comprehensions Online • PDF • ODP
• Distutils Online • PDF • ODP
• Python Eggs Online • PDF • ODP
• KSS Part One Online • MOV • SWF • PDF • PPT • ODP
• IRC Basics for TriZPUG Online only
• Cheetah Templates Online • MOV • SWF • PDF • PPT • ODP

I've also given presentations at TriZPUG meetings on numpy, matplotlib, pyDap, and Plone Content Actions (live demo, no slides), parsing scientific data with Python (live demo, no slides), Plone 3 (Limi's conference slides), TextIndexNG3 (live demo, no slides), ZODB (Chris McDonough's slides), Clouseau (live demo, no slides), Social Patterns in Content Management (no slides), and Plone Desktop (live demo, no slides).