Nathan R. Yergler

Originated prototypes to demonstrate uses of Creative Commons technology, including enhanced search, discovery and tagging of licensed content. Coordinated contractor development for specialized projects. Assisted with analysis and implementation of technology strategy.

Designed and developed CC Publisher application which allows users to upload creative works to the Internet Archive for free hosting, resulting in over 4,000 software downloads and 12,000 works contributed to the Internet Archive in a six month period. Implemented developer interfaces for Creative Commons technologies and services.

Independent Software Developer

Prototyped and delivered application for generating student transcripts, merging structured student data with templates to produce PDF output. Implemented Django web application for manipulating transcript data.

Canterbury School

Developed web-based communication tools for K-12 students and teacher, including classroom management and assessment functionality. Designed introductory programming curriculum to be used with all incoming freshman students and taught first year of the new introductory course. Taught intermediate programming electives. Communicated benefits of education technology to faculty and staff.

Esteves-DWD

Managed and facilitated expansion of internal network throughout three locations nationwide. Developed software for deployment to customers, enabling more effective communication with sales personnel. Designed and developed web application for Quality Control department, resulting in more efficient access to customer specifications.

“Commodity Semantic Search: A Case Study of DiscoverEd,” Semantic Technology Conference, San Francisco, California, June 25, 2010.

“Rights for Machines: the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language,” COMMUNIA Workshop on Technology and the Public Domain, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, January 18, 2008.

“Building the Commons: Integrating CC in Your Application,” Open Source Convention, Portland, OR, July 25, 2007.

“Open Source is my Day Job,” University of Michigan, March 19, 2007.

“Extensible desktop applications using the Zope 3 framework,” PyCon, Addison, TX, February, 2006.

“Cross platform desktop applications with Python,” ACCU, Oxford, UK, April, 2005, PyCon, Washington, DC, March, 2005.

“Using RDF with Python,” PyCon, Washington, DC, March, 2005.

“Developing online classroom tools with Zope,” PyCon, Washington, DC, March, 2004.

“Teaching programming with Python and PyGame,” PyCon, Washington, DC, March, 2003.