2000-present
- Writing and commentary
- 2006: No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Between the Lines Press
- 2006-present: Writing on technology and politics, on this blog and in various print & online publications
- 2011-present: Invited contributor and speaker on open data and on the sharing economy.
- 2015: What’s Yours is Mine, OR Books
2011–present
Senior Product Manager, SAP SE.
(In 2011 Sybase was taken over by SAP SE. The views expressed on this site are, of course, independent of my employer.)
1994–2011
Sybase Inc., Waterloo, Ontario — SQL Anywhere R&D division.
- 1994–1996: Technical Writer
- 1996–2005: Manager, Technical Publications
- 2005–2011: Senior Product Manager
1991–1994
Director of Scientific Support, Hypercube Inc, Waterloo, Ontario.
1989–1991
Postdoctoral Researcher, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario with R.J. LeRoy.1991
1988–1989
Postdoctoral Researcher, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford, with D.M.P. Mingos.
1986
Administrative assistant, McMaster University Centre for Peace Studies
1986
Contract researcher: Energy Probe
1985–1986
National Vice President, Canadian Union of Educational Workers
1981–1986
Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, with the late R.F.W. Bader.
- 1978–1981
- B.Sc. (Hons) First Class, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sussex.