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Nathan R. Yergler

nathan@yergler.net
San Francisco, California

http://yergler.net

Experience

Creative Commons

Chief Technology Officer
San Francisco, California
April 2007 — present

Architect and manage development of Creative Commons software and technology infrastructure. Design, develop and promote metadata specifications for Creative Commons licensing. Evangelize Creative Commons licensing and technology standards to potential partner organizations. Assist partners with implementation and integration of Creative Commons licensing.

June 2006 — April 2007
Senior Software Engineer

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.

June 2004 — June 2006
Software Engineer

Designed and developed ccPublisher 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.

Freelance Software Developer

Canterbury School
January 2007 — May 2007

Developed 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 2006 — May 2007

Developed software to power BayJams.com, a website designed as a place for people to connect to local bands and venues, utilizing Python and Django.

Canterbury School

Fort Wayne, Indiana
January 2001 — June 2004
Assistant Technology Director

Developed web-based classroom tools to enable student – teacher communication, including the ability to post assignments and submit responses. 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.

Esteves-DWD

Decatur, Indiana
January 2000 — August 2000
Information Technology Manager

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

Selected Presentations

“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.

Education

Purdue University

Fort Wayne, Indiana
B.S. Computer Science
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