-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jamie Zawinski
jwz@lucid.com
810 San Luis Road
Berkeley, CA 94707-2053
(510) 527-2369
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVE
To improve people's lives through software. My interests include
user interface design, programming tools, graphics, information
management, privacy, security, and the net in general.
EXPERIENCE
* Scientist, Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
June 1990 - present.
Primary developer and maintainer of Lucid Emacs, a popular version
of the GNU Emacs text editor for Unix. Lucid Emacs has much
better integration with the X window system, and many user
interface improvements, including multiple fonts, multiple
windows, and inline graphics. Designed and implemented an
extensible menubar, popup menu, and dialog box facility;
redesigned and reimplemented the underlying command loop for more
general keyboard and mouse handling; integrated with the Motif,
Xt, and Open Look Intrinsics toolkits.
Coordinated and directed the testing of Lucid Emacs by nearly a
hundred beta testers across the network. Handled the release and
distribution of Lucid Emacs both through Lucid's release process
and to the network at large.
Managed mailing lists and USENET newsgroups devoted to user
discussion of the editor (best estimates place these newsgroups at
30,000-40,000 readers.) Tracked user bugs and worked closely with
users to integrate their fixes and improvements back into the
distribution.
Integrated Lucid Emacs with the Energize Programming System, a
development environment for C and C++. Lucid Emacs comprises the
primary user interface to Energize.
Implemented an optimizing byte-compiler for Emacs Lisp.
Wrote and distributed numerous X programs, including: xkeycaps, a
graphical utility that lets the user interactively re-map their
keyboard without having to learn the complex syntax of the
standard X keyboard-remapping tool; xdaliclock, a morphing digital
clock; xscreensaver, a highly extensible screen saver and locker,
and a number of graphics demos to go with it.
Implemented BBDB (the Insidious Big Brother Database), a
rolodex-like system for tracking names, phone numbers, addresses,
and email addresses, and any other person-oriented information.
BBDB tightly integrates with the various Emacs-based mail and news
readers, and is highly automatable and extensible - it tends to
silently "notice" information that passes by without explicit
interaction by the user, so that the information is readily
available later.
Wrote audio-tape.ps, a popular program for printing labels for the
boxes of audio tapes of all varieties, implemented entirely in
PostScript. It includes dozens of options, complicated automatic
text-sizing features, and the ability to include arbitrary
graphics on the labels.
Worked on QLISP, a futures-based multiprocessor version of Lucid
Common Lisp running on an 8 processor Alliant Concentrix.
Implemented a more efficient kind of process object to take better
advantage of parallelism.
Worked on porting Lucid Common Lisp to new architectures.
Represented Lucid at several trade shows.
* Programmer/Analyst, University of California, Berkeley, CA
August 1989 - June 1990.
Member of a small research group developing a natural language
help system. Implemented a relation-based knowledge
representation language, and performed various system software
maintenance and tools development tasks on Texas Instruments
Explorer Lisp Machines.
* Software Engineer, Expert Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
May 1986 - August 1989.
Member of the team that designed and implemented an expert system
for the automatic pagination of the Yellow Pages on TI Explorers.
Designed and implemented a window toolkit which allowed the use of
a Macintosh-like user interface on top of the Explorer "tiled"
window system.
Designed and implemented a hierarchical frames system for use as a
general purpose database. Built on this an application which
allowed the pagination system to store its hierarchy of rules and
parameters. Implemented a complex frame and tree editor,
including an undo facility, and a mechanism for editing the source
code of rules.
Implemented a device-independent document processing system
similar to the Scribe document processing language. This was
written in portable Common Lisp and included support for
PostScript output, as well as the ability to generate hypertext
documents for the Explorer online manual browsing system.
* Programmer, Spice Lisp Project, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA
April 1985 - May 1986.
Worked on the implementation of Hemlock, an Emacs-like text editor
implemented in Spice Lisp (now CMU Common Lisp) on a Perq Systems
workstation.
SKILLS
Very experienced with C, Lisp, PostScript, and the Flavors and
CLOS object systems. Some experience with assembly languages.
Very knowledgeable about UNIX, X, Emacs, Lisp Machines, and lisp
internals in general.
Efficiency, modularity, robustness. Purity of Essence.