About

Hi, my name is Paul, and I’m a weboholic. I’ve been mucking around on this Internet thing for a while and it’s grown on me. So I’ve decided to make my career around it.

Scholarly

I graduated from the Information Systems program at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2008. I am also pursuing a Master of Information Systems Management (also at Carnegie Mellon), and will be graduating in December of 2008 (and will be looking for a job!) and will be starting full-time at Mozilla in February 2009!

Workerly

I’ve held a few jobs over the years, from bagger at a grocery store, to working on major open source projects.

In the summer of 2007 I interned with Yahoo! Autos writing a lot of PHP, CSS, JS, and HTML. It was a valuable experience working for a smaller team within a large company. But no matter what anybody says, I don’t think Yahoo! is going anywhere soon.

In the summer of 2008 I interned with Mozilla to work on Firefox. This was my first major foray into open source and desktop software, and it was awesome. I wrote a lot of JavaScript (and met the guy who created it). I have code in 3.1 and it’s a little terrifying to think that ~180 million people will be using it.

Otherly

I’ve worked on a few projects (besides just school-related ones), including:

• flolcatr A project that generated lolcats from Flickr images for much amusement
• yWeather A JavaScript weather “widget”
• LOLcanvas A bookmarklet to “lolify” Flickr images in a similar fashion as flolcatr
• DTrace Treemaps An experiment to visualize DTrace output analyzing Firefox performance
• TCPulse Scheduler A Ruby on Rails app to schedule courses at Carnegie Mellon
• TCPulse Carnegie Mellon’s other newspaper which I’ve maintained and added a few things to

Webly

I get around: Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, Del.icio.us, Facebook, LinkedIn, and probably a few others. I’ll fill them as I remember or add more.