Coordinating IBM's involvement with the PHP community. Working on Project Zero.

Developed the web services framework for IBM Rational's Jazz project.

Worked with a small team investigating scripting languages and VMs.

Continued with the Open Source Java Guru / Apache Geronimo tracking work from before, to a lesser extent.

Analysis work for IBM Director-ish folk who needed to keep abreast of Open Source Java technology. Lots of reading and playing with stuff.

Tracked the Apache Geronimo project quite closely, including doing a bit of development, though not contributing.

Technical lead for the embedded GUI libraries for the WebSphere Device Developer (WSDD) runtimes, including MIDP, AWT, P3ML and BMG technologies. Most of this work was done with a set of small teams in the former OTI Lab in Raleigh. Worked on operating systems/libraries including PalmOS, WinCE/PocketPC, Qt, SymbianOS, and devices such as Palm devices from various manufacturers, HP/Compaq iPAQs, Nokia Communicator. Also worked on deeply embedded systems using QNX and MontaVista Linux on development boards such as the Motorola MobileGT platform and Intel CerfCruiser.

Coordinated the releases of the runtime code in the WSDD product for versions 5.0, 5.0.1 and 5.5.

Designed/developed the audio interfaces for MIDP 2.0 for the initial releases of this functionality for the WSDD product.

Member of the J2ME JCP Review team that met weekly to discuss IBM's role in the Java Community Process for the J2ME related JSRs.

Started these new roles in late 2001. Additional responsibilities, over and above TL role, were assisting in the management of the lab's employees, as well as helping to set the technical direction for the lab. Personnel work included doing employee appraisals, counseling, mentoring, hiring, and firing.

Lead developer of the jxeLink project, an embedded java linker. Other contributions included serial port runtime libraries, the Degas/EGFX GUI package, the BMG GUI package, bbAWT (AWT implemented on SWT), and doing project management for two releases of the VAME product. Co-wrote the initial SWT port to QNX/Photon.

Went on assignment to Object Technology International (OTI). Worked with embedded Smalltalk and then embedded Java, trying to understand the technologies and how to exploit them. Designed / developed concept car with Delco and Sun for Comdex 97 in Las Vegas.

Lead developer of the "Web Connection" feature of VisualAge Smalltalk. Before moving on, developed the the initial prototype of the VisualAge Java version of this project using the nascent Servlet technology.

Designed / developed the communications layer (TCP/IP) and GSS-API security API usage for the Distributed Smalltalk feature of VisualAge Smalltalk.

Development team member of an OMG CORBA implementation on top of DCE for OS/2 and AIX.

Designed / developed the REXX macro interface into the Hickory editor control, which was a follow-on to the OS/2 Multi-Line Edit Control. Designed / developed the text model for the follow-on to the Hickory editor.

Designed / developed dictionary building tools and dictionary access APIs for a grammar checking editor for both VM/CMS and OS/2.

Designed / developed text-processing algorithms for use in the natural language processing Twain library for OS/2.

Designed / developed programs for the internal IBM product MPI. Batch programming for MVS, interactive CICS programs for 3270, and REXX programming tools as development aids for VM/CMS and MS-DOS.