
David Gorsline
Reston (Fairfax County), Virginia USAe-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
More
Flickr | Goodreads | orcid.org/0000-0001-5640-9268 | iNaturalist | Pinboard | Stack Exchange | @DavidGorsline | [[User:Dgorsline]]