About

I am a software engineer with Hewlett-Packard’s Cloud Services, in Seattle, Washington. I work on the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) team.

Looking back several of my significant endeavors have been on the cutting edge. Around the time when Netscape released its first beta for Navigator, I wrote a master’s thesis proposing a Web-based visualization system that generated MPEG movies on the fly. Likewise, around the time when most workflow vendors were waking up to the e-commerce era and the term orchestration had only musical connotations, I wrote a Ph.D. dissertation proposing a lightweight, customizable workflow architecture.

Before joining HP I worked in a variety of environments, ranging from resesearch centers such as NCSA (Urbana, IL, USA), IMAG (Grenoble, France), IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), and CNET (Bagneux, France) to state government, to dot-coms, to software services like ThoughtWorks, to large software companies like Microsoft. I have first-hand experience on projects from a wide range of industry segments, including mobile, web, telecommunications, healthcare, insurance, and e-Business.I have also worked as an assistant professor, teaching software engineering courses to working professionals. Coming from a top research environment I have found the computer science program at a second-tier department to be a wholly different experience than what I was used to at the University of Illinois. However, I have enjoyed teaching and the experience has been handy many times.

You can send me personal mail at: dam at micro-workflow dot com. My online resume is here.

Note: this site is a personal weblog. Consequently everything from micro-workflow.com represents my personal viewpoint. No part of this content does in any way represent the opinions, recommendations, or directions of my employer.

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