David Gorsline

David Gorsline

Reston (Fairfax County), Virginia USA
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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.

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

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.

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

Some favorite sites

410 Gone

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