David Gorsline
Reston (Fairfax County), Virginia USAe-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
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Technology Connections
- Dinosaur Comics
- Greater Greater Washington
- Shorpy, the 100-year-old photo blog
410 Gone
More
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