Wow! It is truly an honor to be selected by the Lucene PMC to join the committer ranks. You are a top notch team of coders working on one of the most important open-source projects.
About me: My technical background is all tiers of web development with a focus on the middle tier and Java. Of course I have expertise in Lucene and Solr but I also focus on geospatial matters as well as threading / concurrency. I like solving hard interesting problems. I am employed full time by The MITRE Corporation, a US federally funded non-profit organization in which I mostly work in the defense sector. I've been with MITRE for ~14 years. I've been fortunate lately to work on projects that fund my open-source geospatial work. I conduct Solr training at MITRE (1 day and 2-day classes), and I'm sort of a search consultant within MITRE, advising MITRE and its government clients. For 6 months, I have also been working part-time for OpenSource Connections as a search consultant. At home, I'm married with two kids: Adeline who is 10 months old (she's in my arms sleeping as I write this) and Camille who is 2 years 10 months old. I don't know how I found the time to write a book, but now that it's done, I'm on full parental duty when at home. For fun, I like to follow Starcraft 2 professional e-sports. It's conveniently something I can do while I hold a baby; playing the game isn't, unfortuantely. I look forward to meeting you all at Lucene Revolution in May! I live close by in Lowell. Cheers, David Smiley ----- Author: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Welcome-David-Smiley-tp3717248p3718969.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
