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 and NABET-CWA Local 31.

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.

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 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 (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, 60+ butterflies.
34 states visited (and DC) (overnight stays as an adult).

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

Last updated: 25 May 2021