David Gorsline

Reston (Fairfax County), Virginia USA
e-mail: http://scr.im/dgorsline

Avocations

Virginia Master Naturalist, specializing in birds and plants of the Washington, D.C. metro area and the mid-Atlantic region; coordinator for the Wood Duck and Hooded Merganser nest box program at Huntley Meadows Park.

A Honey of an Anklet, personal blog: theater, conservation, the utterly mundane, and Etruscan 8-tracks
Links to web sites, online profiles, and publications elsewhere

Certificate of Accomplishment in the Natural History Field Studies program of Nature Forward (certificate awarded by Audubon Naturalist Society/Graduate School USA), October 2014.

Community theater actor and occasional stage manager.

Teacher's aide, English Empowerment Center.

Webmastering and board service

Webmaster for WATCH, representing Silver Spring Stage
Virginia Native Plant Society
- Board member at large, Technology
- Membership, Potowmack Chapter
Webmaster for Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp

Professional

Retired software engineer; most recently, part of the technology team at NPR. I worked mostly on CMS infrastructure (SQL, Java, PHP, JavaScript, APIs) and occasionally on client apps. Former member, NABET-CWA Local 31.

David Gorsline at LinkedIn
IEFBR14, professional blog: software development, then and now
GitHub

Where I've been

I grew up in Dayton, Ohio and places you can see from there; received degrees from Northwestern University (mathematics, economics) and the University of Pennsylvania (marketing, operations research); and worked briefly in New York and Minneapolis.

Milestones

Volunteer textbook reader (2000+ hours of service) for Learning Ally.
400+ birds on my life list, 70+ butterflies.
33 states visited (incl. DC) (overnight stays as an adult).

Some favorite sites

410 Gone

The Flibbertigibbet

Last updated: 23 September 2024