Skip to content

Nathan R. Yergler

nathan@yergler.net
San Francisco, California

http://yergler.net

Experience

Creative Commons

San Francisco, California
Chief Technology Officer
April 2007April 2011

Manage engineering and systems team at Creative Commons to support mission and partners. Architect and manage development of Creative Commons software and technology infrastructure and applications. Lead development of metadata standards for licensing and copyright expression on the web. Manage partner relationships to support adoption of license technology and development of shared projects. Prototype applications which apply success of Creative Commons’ license technology to other domains, including open education search and discovery. Regularly communicate technology vision and progress to current and prospective funders.

Senior Software Engineer
June 2006April 2007

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.

Software Engineer
June 2004June 2006

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

Canterbury School
January 2007May 2007

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.

California Newspaper Partnership
November 2006May 2007

Developed software to power BayJams.com, a website to connect people with local bands and venues, utilizing Python and Django.

Canterbury School

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Assistant Technology Director
January 2001June 2004

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

Decatur, Indiana
Information Technology Manager
January 2000August 2000

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.

Selected Presentations

Search and Discovery: OER’s Open Loop. In Open Ed 2010 Proceedings. Barcelona: UOC, OU, BYU. <http://hdl.handle.net/10609/4852>.
“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.
Open Source is my Day Job,” University of Michigan, March 19, 2007.
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.

Education

Purdue University

Fort Wayne, Indiana
2006

Specialized Course Work: Software Engineering, System Analysis, Mobile Development, Web Application Development

Awards & Organizations

  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines; Inducted 2006
  • Delta Lambda Phi, National Social Fraternity; Inducted 1996; Alumni, 1998
  • Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout Award; awarded November, 1994