David Gorsline

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

Professional

Veteran business applications developer in the Washington, D.C. metro area; part of the Digital Media team at NPR. I work mostly on CMS infrastructure (SQL, Java, PHP, JavaScript, APIs) and occasionally on client apps. Member, IEEE Computer Society.

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

Avocations

Community theater actor and occasional stage manager. Virginia Master Naturalist, specializing in birds and plants; coordinator for the Wood Duck and Hooded Merganser nest box program at Huntley Meadows Park. Volunteer textbook reader (2000+ hours of service) for Learning Ally (on hiatus).

• A Honey of an Anklet, personal blog: theater, conservation, the utterly mundane, and Etruscan 8-tracks
• Our Friend in Reston, a tumblelog
• Links to web sites, online profiles, and publications elsewhere

Certificate of Accomplishment in the Natural History Field Studies program of Audubon Naturalist Society/Graduate School USA, October 2014.

Webmastering and board service

• Webmaster for Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp
• Webmaster for WATCH, representing Silver Spring Stage
• Membership, Potowmack Chapter of Virginia Native Plant Society

Where I've been

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

Some favorite sites

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• The Brain Scoop with Emily Graslie at the Field Museum
• Dinosaur Comics
• Greater Greater Washington
• Shorpy, the 100-year-old photo blog

410 Gone

• The Flibbertigibbet

More

Flickr | Goodreads | orcid.org/0000-0001-5640-9268 | iNaturalist | Pinboard | Stack Exchange | @DavidGorsline | [[User:Dgorsline]]

Last updated: 13 June 2020