Christopher Schmidt 236 Allston St. Cambridge, MA 02139 617-595-3481 crschmidt@crschmidt.net Employment History: Principal Software Engineer (formerly: Senior Software Engineer) Nokia April 2010-Present Work with Search Quality team to evaluate and improve quality of Local Search. Developed and maintained a tool for accepting work from primarily unskilled workers to assist in the development of quality evaluation, and helped to develop and present evaluation of search quality through this manually annotated data. Manage a team of 5 working on extracting user interactions for analysis and search quality improvement, using 'big data' tools (like Hadoop) to analyze logs from a service with over 2 million daily users. Work to build a system for improved integration of place data for tens of millions of places from dozens of different providers, integrating user generated content with basic and rich content to provide a better user experience. Software Developer MetaCarta June 2006-April 2010 Work with the CTO to create compelling and interesting demonstrations of MetaCarta's geographic search and geographic document tagging technologies. Developed an on-demand local search and document tagging service to support active usage via the web and helped develop and create web service APIs to provide better access for customers attempting to use the MetaCarta APIs. Participated in the development of three separate open source projects from the ground up: OpenLayers, TileCache, and FeatureServer, each of which is now a fully community-run open source project under OSGeo. Developer Ning Sept 2005-June 2006 Developed, updated, maintained, and improved core set of applications on the Ning platform. Included all manner of changes, from usability improvements to implementation of design and functional changes in the way applications work. Developer wedu June 2004-July 2005 Working in PHP to develop web sites and applications to client specifications. Communicating with clients to achieve proposed changes to websites, or develop and create entirely new ones, using specifications developed alongside the client. More history available upon request. History highlights only relevant positions. Open Source Experience: OpenLayers Project Developer, Project PSC Member June 2006 - 2011 Helped to found the OpenLayers project. OpenLayers is a Javascript web mapping library, similar to the Google Maps API, that allows users to browse maps on the web. OpenLayers has a development community of hundreds, with dozens directly contributing to the codebase, and has been used in 10s of thousands of web pages. In addition to helping found the project, currently serve as a member of the Project Steering Committee in an advisory role. TileCache Project Developer Nov 2006 - 2011 Maintainer and primary developer of TileCache, a library designed to allow simple caching and generation of tiled images for web-based mapping. Have supported the user and developer community in the primary developer role since the project's inception following FOSS4G2006. FeatureServer Project Developer May 2007 - 2011 Maintainer and primary developer of FeatureServer, a tool for doing simple presentation of web-based feature storage and editing. FeatureServer was an initial attempt to demonstrate that making features available in a more RESTful way was a reasonable approach to solving the problem, and has been used in varying efforts from demonstrating offline browser-based geographic data editing to efforts in helping support the relief effort in Haiti in January of 2010. OpenAerialMap Developer Nov 2007 - Dec 2008 Helped develop an initial proof-of-concept for the OpenAerialMap project, providing a repository of free and open aerial imagery. Processed state-wide (and worldwide) imagery for a number of states as part of a proof of concept of the OpenAerialMap concept, and helped to develop software to support that effort. spatialreference.org Primary Developer and Maintainer July 2007 - Present Spatialreference.org is a website dedicated to making available spatial reference information to users. In addition to supporting the common, existing dictionaries for spatial reference definitions, spatialreference.org also supports addition of user-provided spatial references, helping to build up a common location for spatial reference definitions of all kinds. Other Experience: Open Source Geospatial Foundation Board Member Nov 2009 - 2011 Participate in discussions about the direction and tasks for the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, including helping to direct the foundation with regard to allocation of resources, seeking sponsorships from various companies, and other similar work supporting the non-profit foundation. OSGeo Foundation Systems Administration Committee Nov 2009 - Present Help to maintain the OSGeo server infrastructure, including shared SVN, Trac, and web services. Helped to move OSGeo from dated, expensive infrastructure to infrastructure provided by OSUOSL to support higher load due to increased usage. Primary point of contact for several high visibility infrastructure componenets. References available upon request.