Resume

2000-present

Writing and commentary

• 2006: No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Between the Lines Press
• 2006-present: Writing on technology and politics, on this blog and in various print & online publications
• 2011-present: Invited contributor and speaker on open data and on the sharing economy.
• 2015: What’s Yours is Mine, OR Books

For more detail, see Publications

2011–present

Senior Product Manager, SAP SE.

(In 2011 Sybase was taken over by SAP SE. The views expressed on this site are, of course, independent of my employer.)

1994–2011

Sybase Inc., Waterloo, Ontario — SQL Anywhere R&D division.

• 1994–1996: Technical Writer
• 1996–2005: Manager, Technical Publications
• 2005–2011: Senior Product Manager

1991–1994

Director of Scientific Support, Hypercube Inc, Waterloo, Ontario.

1989–1991

Postdoctoral Researcher, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario with R.J. LeRoy.1991

1988–1989

Postdoctoral Researcher, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford, with D.M.P. Mingos.

1986

Administrative assistant, McMaster University Centre for Peace Studies

1986

Contract researcher: Energy Probe

1985–1986

National Vice President, Canadian Union of Educational Workers

1981–1986

Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, with the late R.F.W. Bader.

1978–1981

B.Sc. (Hons) First Class, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sussex.