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.
• 34 states visited (incl. DC) (overnight stays as an adult).

Some favorite sites

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Technology Connections
• Dinosaur Comics
• Greater Greater Washington
• Shorpy, the 100-year-old photo blog

410 Gone

• The Flibbertigibbet

More

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Last updated: 4 March 2025