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Staff

	Aaron Binns Senior Software Engineer Aaron joined the Internet Archive in January 2008 to bring full-text search to the archives, as well as an elevated sense of sartorial excellence to the archivists. Previously, he has worked at various technology start-ups in San Francisco and outside of Washington D.C. Aaron graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a B.S in Computer Science.
	Andy Bezella Senior Systems Administrator Andy enjoys working and playing with linux (and solaris, too) in environments small and large. He graduated from Carleton College in 1996 with a degree in math, and has lived in or near most of the major metropolises of the upper midwest: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, umm... Minneapolis again. Andy shares the stereotypical interests of fantasy, sci-fi, and electronic music, but also likes both cats and dogs, t'ai chi and chai tea.
	Brad Tofel Data Archivist Brad Tofel has been working with Internet technologies for eight years. Prior to the Internet Archive, Brad worked at Alexa Internet, participating in the architectural design for several initiatives, including the Wayback Machine. While at Alexa Internet, Brad managed the storage of the Web collections, performed data mining and indexing of the web collections, and was the Lead Developer for the Toolbar group. Prior to Alexa Internet, Brad built a variety of web applications at Ephibian, a Tucson-based organization that outsourced software engineering and Network Operations Center services for military, research and Internet organizations. Brad received a B.S. in computer science at the University of Arizona in 1996.
	Brewster Kahle Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and co-founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers. Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995. He received the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information and the IP3 Award from Public Knowledge in 2004.
	Dominic Dela Cruz Web Crawl Engineer Dominic studied Political Science at the University of California at Riverside because he wanted to figure out why democracies succeed. He still can't tell you why, but he can tell you that restricting access to information is the first step in their failure. Dominic joined the Internet Archive in April 2008. Before that, he worked for the independent online news magazine Salon.com as a software engineer. The Archive lets him play with his favorite technologies like Gnu/Linux and internet-based applications. He is also a mammal who enjoys running, biking, and reading about the history of science/technology.
	Eric Ostlund System Administrator and Technical Support Eric has been programming computers since the early eighties. He is the System Administration and Technical Support for the Book Scanning Centers. He has lived and written code in Minneapolis, Seattle, Boston, Geneva and the San Francisco Bay Area.
	Gabe Juszel Digital Scanning Coordinator - Toronto Degree - B.A - Highest Honors - Cinema Worked as an Archivist for the Library and Archives of Canada, in the Audio Acquisition and Research Section and various other academic/research institutions. From Ottawa, I moved to Toronto to work on Feature Films and Television as an Assistant Director for the D.G.C. for 6 years. I still work on feature films in my spare time and currently I'm in my 5th year, as Regional Scanning Coordinator with Internet Archive Canada - based out of the University of Toronto.
	Gordon Mohr Chief Technologist, Web Group Gordon Mohr has been creating innovative applications for the Internet since 1995. Before joining the Internet Archive, Gordon founded and led Bitzi, a collaborative universal media catalog built by volunteers over the web. Previously, Gordon led the design and implementation of "Ding," an extensible all-Java peer-to-peer instant-messaging platform, for Activerse, an Austin-based startup acquired by CMGi in 1999. In 1995, Gordon helped create VisualWave, an early object-oriented web application server and development environment, for Sunnyvale-based ParcPlace Systems.
	Hank Bromley Software Engineer Hank is enjoying his second helping of computers, having taken refuge in the social sciences and academia for two decades after a stint of AI work (at AT&T Bell Labs) in the 1980s, and now taking refuge from academia and the social sciences by plunging back into the geek realm. Although the work was fun the first time around, it did nothing to make the world a better place, thus the detour into grad school and faculty life; this time, it's not only fun (and a bit addictive), it's got Purpose. The Archive rocks. Since 2007 Hank has been supporting the books project at various points from book ingest, through processing, to web presentation of the results. Hank has S.B. degrees from MIT in math and computer science, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is answerable for the books Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine, and Education/Technology/Power: Educational Computing as a Social Practice (co-edited with Michael W. Apple).
	Jacques Cressaty Director of Administration A long time transplant from France, Jacques' specialty is to organize businesses and keep their books straight. He joined the Internet Archive in 2001. Prior to that Jacques managed his wife's design firm. He has been a professional photographer since 1984 and is a published and exhibited artist. Most mornings, you will find him in his rowing shell in the middle of SF Bay.
	Jeff Sharpe Midwest Regional Scanning Center Coordinator Jeff's work experience in administration and research led him to the Coordinator position at the Scanning Center in the Allen County Public Library. He's really excited about being a part of the Internet Archive. He is a voracious reader with a great love of books, nowadays mostly focusing on non-fiction. He has a love of Archaeology with emphasis on Mayan civilization, and has traveled extensively visiting Mayan ruins. He enjoys hanging out with his kids, is a news junky and also enjoys gardening, bicycle riding, hiking, traveling, pretty much anything outdoors. He has a Bachelors Degree from Indiana University in Bloomington 1984.
	Jennifer Leebove HR Coordinator Jennifer is the HR Coordinator and enjoys delving into all aspects of Human Resources. She works closely with the Archive's administration department making sure all payroll, benefits and other issues are resolved. Prior to the Internet Archive, Jennifer worked for a staffing company.
	Jim Shankland System Administrator Jim Shankland started working with computers in Ithaca, New York when a job driving a school bus fell through. He has been writing code for UNIX, FreeBSD, and Linux for over 20 years, and loves open-source software, but is frustrated that for all the technical progress, everything involving computers remains ten times as hard and a tenth as reliable as it ought to be. Jim has a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University, and a M.E. in computer science from Cornell University.
	Jon Hornstein Director of NASA Images Project Jon has been helping organizations manage and monetize digital media for over 15 years. Most recently Jon served as General Manager of Erickson Productions, a stock media agency. While there he guided the company through rapid growth to become one of the world's leading premium stock agencies. Previously, as VP Strategy for iXL's Digital Media Solutions Groups, Jon managed the development of the digital media business strategy for a wide range of companies including Kodak, Virgin, The Golf Channel The Financial Times, as well as many start-ups. In 2000 Jon co-authored the white paper "COPE: A Create Once, Publish Everywhere Strategy" which is widely considered one of the first papers to outline how media companies can take advantage of the advent of new mobile and broadband media devices. Jon received a BA from San Francisco State University and an MA from The George Washington University School of International Affairs.
	Julie Lefevre Digital Projects Librarian Julie Lefevre has worked on the Internet Archive's books digitization program since 2005, contributing to the development of metadata retrieval and reporting tools, and standardizing workflow in the Archive's scanning centers. After serving as Quality Assurance Librarian and Digital Scanning Coordinator of the Archive's northern California scanning center, Julie is now the Archive's Digital Projects Librarian, working on metadata and curation issues. She has an MLIS from San Jose State University and an MA in Liberal arts from St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM.
	Kris Brix Scanning Center Coordinator After a traditional east coast upbringing in Massachusetts, Kris relocated to California in the '80s and eventually made her way to UCLA where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History with a focus in Film Study. She will be continuing her education in 2009 by pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science degree with a specialty in Digital Libraries. In addition to a decade spent working within the UCLA Library system, she has worked for a wide variety of employers including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the American Film Institute. Kris joined Internet Archive in 2006 and as the Los Angeles Scanning Center Coordinator she has enjoyed working to help digitize the many diverse library collections on the UCLA campus and at the neighboring Getty Research Institute.
	Kris Carpenter Director, Web Archive Kris Carpenter joined the Internet Archive as Director of the Web Archive in September 2006. In her role, she works closely with national libraries, archives and universities to provide technical expertise and services in web archiving and web search. Prior to joining the Internet Archive, Kris worked in the high-tech-industry, for-profit sector. For the last 15 years, she divided her time between the online consumer and business-to-business services and software sectors. For the majority of her career Kris has served in product and general management roles for venture-backed Silicon Valley start-ups. Kris has a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.
	Kristine Hanna Director, Web Archiving Services Kristine Hanna is the Director for Web Archiving Services, working with partners to develop web archiving services and solutions that will help preserve the internet. She is particularly passionate about saving "at risk" websites and collections. Kristine has been working on the internet since 1997 when she co-founded GirlGeeks, a career site for women in technology, which was flipped to a non profit in 2002. Before joining the Archive in January of 2006, she held senior level and management positions in online content and business development in media and educational internet companies.Before founding GirlGeeks, Kristine worked extensively in film and television at Lucasfilm, (Colossal) Pictures, and Lorimar/Warner Brothers; and attended USC's School of Cinema and Television. She has earned two team Emmy Awards, as well as two individual Emmy nominations as the Visual Effects Producer on "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles".
	Lance Grabmiller Officer Manager Lance spent six years as an administrative and legal assistant for a small law firm and several years in other administrative service and management settings prior to joining the Internet Archive in October 2008. Jack of all trades, and master of only a few, he is an active participant in the San Francisco Bay Area's creative music community, performing in, presenting and organizing concerts and festivals throughout California and runs his own record label for creative electronic music.
	Linda Frueh Regional Director, Washington D.C. Linda is an 18-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies with experience in strategic planning, partnership development and general management. She joined the Archive in Washington with the mission to support our partnerships with federal agencies and other DC-based organizations. Before joining us Linda was a partner with a technology incubator and consulting firm, held Vice President positions at the public companies Lexar Media and Network General Corporation, and was a Board member for several internet startups. She began her career in Washington as a technical assistant at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Linda holds a BS in physics from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
	Mario Murphy Books Processing Engineer Previous to the Archive, he was "Systems Manager" at Octavo were many very rare & valuable books were digitized for preservation and access. He's also worked at Apple Computer as a High Level Quality Test Engineer, and at the Berkeley Macintosh User's Group where anyone could find help with their Mac, and then the internet happened.
	Melissa Bell Site Coordinator Currently, I am the Site Coordinator in Princeton, NJ digitizing materials for the Princeton Theological Seminary as well as Palinet sponsored libraries. I have spent the last year or so working in several of our scanning centers in different capacities. I also attend school part-time pursing a degree in a science/research related field. Prior to working for the Archive I have worked many years in the manufacturing industry as a Supervisor, QA Inspector and computer hardware integrator. I have also attained an EMT certification allowing me to volunteer my services working with and giving back to the community.
	Michael Magin Web Crawl Engineer Michael joined the Internet Archive web group in May 2006. Before that he did Linux software engineering at Sun Microsystems. He has a BS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael likes to cook, lift weights, write, ride motorcycles, and is learning to knit. He owns his own oscilloscope.
	Molly Bragg Partner Specialist, Web Archiving Services Molly has been working at the Internet Archive since May 2003. Working with Archive-It gives Molly a great opportunity to expose memory institutions to the importance and methods of web archiving. She also enjoys helping make Internet technology important for and understandable to everyone. Before coming to the Archive, Molly worked for Hostelling International (a non-profit organization with youth hostels worldwide) at two of their San Francisco hostels. Molly graduated from San Francisco State University cum laude with a B.A. in English. In her spare time, Molly studies philosophy with a committed reading group and plans to take up the cello again any day now.
	Noah Levitt Web Crawl Engineer Noah joined the Archive in October 2007. He does development and administration mostly around the Archive-It service. Previously he worked at Columbia University on digital library projects. Before that, in 2001, he got his BS in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. Noah is an advocate of all things free and open, including software, information, and society in general.
	Paul Ruben Books Engineer Paul is a veteran of several free software projects, a former member of the L5 Society, and a lifelong space cadet. These days he works mostly on the Open Library search infrastructure. His other interests include math, cryptography, security, advanced programming languages, and of course beer and sushi.
	Ralf Muehlen Cluster Engineer Ralf develops software to run on the petabox cluster. For many years, he has led the SFLan project, trying to build a fast and free wireless network in San Francisco. Ralf is an avid bicyclist and hiker.
	Ronnie Peoples Site Coordinator Ronnie Peoples heads the Scanning Center at the Library of Congress. His background is Records Management, he has over 30 years working in the area of Micrographics, lithographics, Reprographics and Digital imaging and over 25 years in managing and training staff in all area of Government and Law firms. His passion is restoration of antique cars and attending car shows. He spends a lot of time mentoring youth in his neighborhood, and this is his way of giving back.
	Robert Miller Director of Books Robert Miller leads the Internet Archive's global book digitization project. In this capacity, he has three main roles; establishing and maintaining the relationships between the libraries and the funding partners, building and managing the teams that do the digitization and evangelizing within the library community to move more items from non-digital to digital. Prior to the Archive, Robert co-founded 5 consumer product start up companies bringing over 85 products to market in the US, Europe and Australia. In addition he was CEO of FocusEngine, a VC funded search engine company. He has been featured in various publications such as the New York Times, WSJ, Inc and CNN. Robert has two Fortune 500 company experiences; rising to sr. management roles in both Mattel Toys (consumer products) and AMP/Tyco (electronics). Robert holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University in Pa. He sits on the board of the Marin based non-profit; Youth in Arts. Robert brings multi-cultural experience into the Archive; having lived in Afghanistan and Germany; and worked extensively in Asia.
	Samuel Stoller Cluster Engineer Samuel has been a software engineer and Unix systems administrator since 1995. His technical interests include: large systems, high quality video feedback and low hanging fruit.
	Stacy Argondizzo Regional Operations Manager Stacy has been with the Archive since 2007 and is presently heading up the New York Scanning Center as well as two TSP operations in North Carolina at NCSU and Chapel Hill. Previous to that, Stacy spent fifteen years working alongside reputable corporations within various creative arenas in the fields of production, archiving, photography, printing and rich media for the web. More than five of those very years were specifically dedicated to managing content for Getty Images.
	Steve Software Engineer Steve is helping to write software for the petabox, the books group, and the web group. He learned to program from his friends that make software for spacecraft. He's interested in not driving a car or eating animals, but hopes to play a gig at the first sushi restaurant on a near-earth asteroid.
	Tracey Jaquith Web Engineer Tracey was a founding coder and the system architect for the Internet Archive in 1996, writing multi-threaded servers and crawlers, as well as parallel processing code. She continued on with the company and Alexa Internet. In 2000, she left for four years to follow her Cornell mentor, Dan Huttenlocher, and was a technical lead and founding engineer at a financial services software startup. She returned to the Internet Archive in October 2004 and is most excited about being at a non-profit and doing digital video. Tracey holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in computer science from Cornell University where she focused on machine vision and robotics. Outside of work, she is a road biker, political webmaster and volunteer, DVD and VCD producer, and time-lapse digital photography enthusiast. www.archive.org/~tracey (Note: Safari browsers need the latest version because site is in XML)
	Vinay Goel Web Crawl Engineer Vinay joined the Internet Archive's Web Group in July 2006. He earned his M.S. in Computer Science from Lehigh University, PA. While at Lehigh, he was involved in researching techniques to combat web spam, and mobility management schemes in Disruption Tolerant Networking. He is originally from Bangalore, India. In his spare time, he likes to read, bike, find new places to eat, and make long distance calls.

Board of Directors

Brewster Kahle Board Chair

David Rumsey David Rumsey is President of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and Chairman of Luna Imaging, a provider of software for online image collections. Rumsey's collection of historical maps numbers over 150,000 cartographic items and is one of the largest private map collections in the United States. In 2002, he received a Webby Award for Technical Achievement and an Honors Award from the Special Libraries Association for providing free public access to his private map collection at the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Rumsey received his BA and MFA from Yale University where he was a lecturer in art and a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts, a group of artists working with electronic technologies. He serves on the boards of the Long Now Foundation, John Carter Brown Library, Advisory Board to Stanford University Library, and is a trustee of Yale Library Associates and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Rumsey has lectured widely regarding his online library work, including talks at the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Digital Library Federation, Stanford University, Harvard University, and at conferences in the U.S., Hong Kong, Mexico, Japan, United Kingdom, and Germany. He has contributed to several publications on cartography and the advent of GIS. In 2005 ESRI Press published his book Cartographica Extraordinaire. Recently, Rumsey has been creating historical map projects both in Google Earth and the virtual world of Second Life.

Kathleen Burch Board Secretary
Kathleen Burch has decades of experience in non-profit management, strategic thinking, and community activation, all to serve her passion and commitment to universal literacy and book publishing.
After studies at Mills College in Oakland in English Literature and and graduate work in the Book Arts department, she founded a type & design studio and an independent publishing house, Burning Books, both of which thrived in San Francisco throughout the eighties.
An understanding of the community's needs, along with her value for arts organizations, book arts and social entrepreneuring, drove Burch to go on to co-found the San Francisco Center for the Book in 1996. She now serves as its board vice-chair and on the executive committee in perpetuity. Besides sitting on several other community-based boards, she also chaired the board of Pro Arte Libri, an international arts organization devoted to the art of fine bookmaking.
She has practiced symbolic communication through typographic languages since 1974, publishing the works of big thinkers such as John Cage, Robert Ashley, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and her own work on game theory and the culture of card-playing, with recent studies in the Visual Criticism department at California College of Art in San Francisco. Her work with Burning Books was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Mills College in 1996. She was a Xerox PARC artist-in-residence in 2000.

Rick Prelinger Board President
Rick Prelinger prelinger.com, an archivist, writer and filmmaker, founded Prelinger Archives, whose collection of 51,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation. Rick has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 2,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen laserdiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including "Ephemeral Films," the "Our Secret Century" series and "Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built," a laserdisc on the hostory of suburbia and suburban planning. Rick has taught in the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectured widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access. He sits on the National Film Preservation Board as representative of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and is Board President of the Internet Archive and also the San Francisco Cinematheque. His feature-length film "Panorama Ephemera," depicting the conflicted landscapes of 20th-century America, opened in summer 2004. He is co-founder of the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly reference library located in San Francisco.

Archived Archivists

Alexis Rossi Manager of Collections

Alexis has been working with Internet content since 1996 when she discovered that being picky about words in books was good training for being picky about data on computers. She spent several years managing news content at ClariNet (the first online news aggregator), and then became the Editorial Director at Alexa Internet in 2000. After taking a couple of years off to travel and make jewelry, Alexis returned to the online world when she joined the Internet Archive in January of 2006.

Currently, Alexis is involved with the audio and video collections, as well as Open Library, the Open Content Alliance, and the Zotero/IA project. Alexis is on the eIFL-FOSS Advisory Board and the Editorial Board of NISO's Information Standards Quarterly.

Andy Wright Executive Assistant-Development Coordinator
Andy Wright was born and bred on the sandy shores of Southern California. She attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where she earned a BA in Media Studies, learned to hate snow, and developed a love for non profit work. She cut her teeth as a traveling intern, acting as support for farflung non profits throughout the country and has also worked as a freelance journalist and office drone. She loves unicorns, bacon, making stuffed animals and media democracy.

Aryana Farsai Roborough SCRIBE Technical Support
Aryana F. Roxborough has been involved in supporting hardware and software for 8 years, first interning at CBS Marketwatch in San Francisco, and then later working in the Klystron Department at SLAC, where she supported enterprise software and hardware. She has previously been a bamboo propagation manager, collective bakery and cafe entreprenuer, and self-defense instructor. After work, and between tech positions, she enjoys organic gardening and natural building with and emphasis on alternative energy and sustainable development. She is a graduate of the New College of California Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community program and currently lives in an urban eco-village located in Oakland, CA. Hobbies include making mosaics, ceramanic sculpture, riding and wrenching classic Honda motorcycles, and electronic music.

Beatrice Murch Executive Assistant / Development Coordinator
Beatrice comes to the Internet Archive with five years of non-profit administration experience, working with both non-profits and foundations. She claims to understand technology and has had a web presence since 1996 in some form or another, which you can check out courtesy of the Wayback Machine. She enjoys working in the non-profit sector and making the world a better place. She believes that universal access to all knowledge is a worthy goal and enjoys creating that reality. In the late 1990s, Willamette University gave her a B.A. in art history and French literature with a minor in mathematics. Apart from work, Beatrice enjoys travelling, political activism and geeking out with her friends. www.murch-sitaker.org

Bernardo Elayda Technical Support Enginner
When Bernardo was not looking at crawls of the web, he's a graduate student at University of San Francisco. And because he is a big fan of art, he volunteers as a webmaster for Art Design San Francisco.
Turn-ons : Open Source, cognative learning systems, sushi, tapas
Turn-offs : Fake people, bad breath, brussel sprouts, traffic

Bill Moyer Software Engineer
Bill Moyer has been developing distributed technologies for five years, and commercial and open source software for ten years. Prior to working in the Data Repository and the Collections departments of the Internet Archive, Bill worked at The Sausalito Group and at Flying Crocodile, developing distributed demographic database and data analysis software for corporate intelligence applications. Prior to Flying Crocodile, Bill developed and maintained the GNU C Compiler and related applications in Cygnus Solutions' GNUPro toolchain (acquired by RedHat in Jan 2000) from 1996 to 1999. Prior to Cygnus, Bill developed embedded communications software for First Pacific Networks.

Bruce Baumgart Research Engineer
Baumgart is a hardware tinker, software hacker, and geezer geek who now serves the Internet Archive as a petabox cluster technical support engineer, computer scientist, and open source evangelist. He spent the 1980s as an entrepreneur -- founded, ran and sold Softix, Inc. which built computer ticket systems around the world, including BASS San Francisco and Ticketek Australia. His formal education included a Harvard 1968 B.A. in applied mathematics and a Stanford 1974 Ph.D. in computer science for work done at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. His informal education includes work at institutions such as Xerox PARC, Foonly Inc., Yaskawa Robotics, and IBM Research at Almaden. The top two computer science questions he is pursuing for this year, 2005, concern characterizing disk data decay and tabulating lexical string frequencies on large corpora. Outside the I.A. Baumgart supports John Nagel's Team Overbot which is competing in the DARPA grand challenge robot race across the Mojave desert. Inside the I.A. Baumgart supports extending the computer science 'research access' part of the Archive's mission to provide 'universal access to all human knowledge'.
Casey Nelson Executive Assistant
Casey Nelson has worked at many non-profits prior to his arrival at the Archive. He is delighted to be back in San Francisco after a protracted stay in Seattle. He attended Gannon University and has a B.A. in English and Philosophy. He looks forward to the day that his favorite poet, Russell Edson, wins the accolades he deserves and until then enjoys reading, writing, swimming and road biking in Marin.

Czeslaw Jan Grycz Curator of Books
"Chet" (much easier to pronounce than his full Polish name) came to the Internet Archive following a varied and successful career in academic and scholarly publishing, library research, and non-profit management.
For six years immediately prior to joining the Internet Archive, Chet was CEO of Octavo, a company founded in 1997 by John Warnock (co-founder of Adobe Systems). Octavo specialized in ultra-high quality digitization of rare and extremely valuable books from leading libraries around the world. It provided access to those books through innovative electronic and published editions/collections for both scholarly use and the pleasure of the general public, setting a high bar for standards in digital book imaging and visualization. Prior to his tenure at Octavo, Chet was on the staff of the Office of the President of the University of California, for 14 years at the University Press, and for 6 with the Division of Library Automation.
He has been active in the library community of Central and Eastern Europe through his participation in the non-profit organization Libraries Without Walls, and has produced a television program called Great Libraries of the World. Chet is also a widely-admired speaker and author of several articles and books on publishing technology and library-related topics.

Dan Avery Technical Product Manager, Archive-It, Web Archving Services
Dan has been at the Archive since July 2004. Working on Archive-It gives Dan a way to apply his technical expertise and experience to ensuring that memory institutions achieve their objectives and fulfill their missions. Previously, Dan was a co-founder of an internet consulting company, a search engineer at a major search engine company, and a research scientist.

Eric Volpe System Administrator
Eric has been running unix systems since 1986, and has a particular interest in doing things on a large scale -- big archives, big mail servers, etc. Prior to joining the Internet Archive, he was chief Systems Architect at Critical Path, where as one of the first engineers, he designed and patented a scalable email infrastructure which served tens of millions of end-users. When not at the Internet Archive, Eric is a photographer specializing in semi-abstract large format work, and exhibits in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Eric has a B.A. in German literature from the University of Rochester, and also enjoys tinkering with old motorcycles.

Igor Ranitovic Crawl Services Manager, Web Archiving Services
Igor has been working with the Internet Archive since June of 2002. He came to the Internet Archive as a Data Archivist intern and in January of 2003 he became a full time employee in the Web group.
Igor has a B.S. in computer science/mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College, and a M.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco.
Igor is originally form Novi Sad, SCG. He enjoys music, art and geeeeek soccer.

J. Mauthe Digital Scanning Coordinator - Bay Area
As Digital Scanning Coordinator, J. is managing the daily operations of the Archiveï¿½s West Coast Scanning Center. It is her task to take hard copy books and turn them into Digital on-line masterpieces in a high volume operation.
J. has been on the front line of publishing and retail distribution for 23 consecutive years. She has seen both sides the book business from managing large-scale retail and mail order book operations for Whole Earth Access to Associate Publisher for KQED Books, Sales and Marketing Coordinator for Hunter House Publishers and Editor for Cogito Learning Media. J has also built Internet businesses from the ground up for the two largest antiquarian bookstores in the Bay Area.
J. discovered the Archive while researching her senior thesis on the digitization of libraries. Although J. is a recovering book hoarder by profession she is now a vocal advocate for open source materials. Her passion remains solidly linked to antiquarian books and their preservation

Joel Krauska Cluster Hacker
Joel has been hacking on Linux systems and networks since 1994, and as a youth he ran a BBS out of his bedroom. He joined the archive in 2006 to help support the Petabox cluster. Past careers include Network Engineer for BBN/Genuity and Network Architect for Exodus Communications. More recently he has spent time as an embedded systems engineer, open source evangelist and doing cluster application research at Cisco Systems. Outside of the archive, Joel enjoys sailing on the San Francisco Bay, skiing in Tahoe and supporting local theater.
He has a BS and MS in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Joerg Bashir System Administrator
Joerg is a System Administrator who loves linux and complex distributed systems.

John Berry VP of Operations
John Berry is a veteran technology executive, having served as a CTO, VP of Engineering, and technology consultant for companies such as Planet U, Zatso, IBM, Rational, and AT&T. He has over 20 years experience building highly reliable distributed systems. He earned his B.S. from the University of Maryland.

John Lee Project Manager, Web Group
John has been developing software and managing projects for about 11 years. Most recently, he managed development and operations in a genomics lab at UC Berkeley, writing bioinformatics software and building Linux and Mac OS X compute clusters. John previously held software engineering positions at SGI and Apple, and served as lead server architect for the first- and second-generation wireless Palm handhelds. He has also spent some time coding in Amsterdam, skiing in Tahoe, and running marathons.

Karl Thiessen Testing and Automation Engineer
Karl has a knack for hanging around with people who are making the world a better place, so it's really no surprise that he wound up at the Internet Archive. A colleague said of him once: "We were changing the world before changing the world was cool." From helping to provide the first free UNIX services to students at UC Berkeley, to bringing the most effective HIV-prevention programs in San Francisco to the Web, to assisting engineers in designing earthquake-proof buildings, Karl has a fierce commitment to using computers to improve (and sometimes save) the lives of people.

Mark Johnson Lead Engineer, Books Group
Mark started at the Internet Archive in the Books Group, first writing the Java user interface for the Scribe scanning machine, and then the PHP image processing pipeline. His core expertise is in server-side Java/database applications where he spent 10 years consulting for large businesses, startups, and open source projects. In his spare time, Mark enjoys travelling to far away places, teaching, and playing with high voltage electricity.

Michael Earle Facilities Manager / Jr. System Administrator
Michael came to the Internet Archive from Olson and Company Steel where he worked as an Estimator/Project Manager. Prior to that, Michael was the Operations Manager at Scale8 where he designed, built and managed multiple data center both domestically and internationally. He received a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley.

Michael Stack Software Engineer
Michael works mostly on Heritrix, the Archive's open-source crawler. He has always had a fascination for postulates such as "information wants to be free" and "property is theft", so it's not surprising that he breaks out in goose bumps whenever he hears the Internet Archive motto "Universal Access to All Human Knowledge (for Free, for Ever)." In the past, Michael has been a sysadmin (once), stage manager, a not-very-good dishwasher, director of engineering (twice), laborer (demolition mostly), and software engineer (three or four times).

Michele Kimpton Director of Web Archive
Michele Kimpton has been a Director at the Internet Archive for three years. In her role, she works closely with national libraries, archives and universities to provide technical expertise and services in web archiving. She has developed partnerships with several of these institutions to collaborate on web archiving activities, including co-founding the International Internet Preservation Consortium.
Prior to the Internet Archive, Michele worked in the high-tech-industry, mainly for-profit sector, for the last 20 years. Before coming to the Internet Archive she was one of the co-founders of an online digital imaging company, which was subsequently bought by one of the larger photo imaging companies. For the last ten years of her career she has worked primarily in technical management and business development. She has worked and lived in both Europe and Asia during her career.
Michele has a Masters in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University, and a Masters of Business Administration from University of Santa Clara.

Molly Davis Books Project Manager
As an experienced animator, Molly Davis ran her own animation business as well as a design collective in San Francisco for four years. She came to the Internet Archive with a background in creating things for the Internet, as well as a strong record of running organizations. Molly received her B.F.A. from Florida State University and in her spare time djs on KALX Berkeley kalx.berkeley.edu and draws monsters www.rawr.net.

Parker Thompson Data Archivist
Parker worked with the Internet Archive from 2003 to 2005. He came to the Internet Archive as an intern in the Web group working on the Heritrix web crawler, and in May of 2004 became a full time employee in the collections group, where he built systems for storing and distributing digital collections (audio, video, software, texts, etc), and worked with owners of large collections to organize and include their data in the Internet Archive.
Before coming to the Internet Archive, Parker worked for a small consulting company as a project manager/developer, and as a programmer for a large university developing CRM and knowledge management software.
Parker holds a Master's degreee in information management and systems from the University of California, Berkeley as well as a B.A. (political science) and B.S. (informatics) from the University of Washington.

Paul Forrest Hickman Office Manager
Paul graduated from Oberlin College with a potentially useless liberal arts degree. Now, Paul lives in the Bay Area, skipping winters for a while and biking a lot! Hopefully, someday, Paul will be a piano tuner. Now, Paul reads a lot, cooks and bakes. And then eats it.

Paul Jack Software Engineer
Paul Jack has written and maintained software applications for organizations ranging from community nonprofits to the world's largest banks. He produced a cable access show on which he invited strangers into his home and then wrote poems for them, made an independent gay sci-fi action adventure superhero movie in his living room, and in general strives to be the strangest person you'll ever meet.

Renata Ewing Partner Specialist, Archive-It
Renata has worked on the Web since 1995 when she wrote reviews of web sites for Magellan's search directory. She was one of the first employees at Ask Jeeves where she helped create and manage Ask Jeeves for Kids. In 2004, she returned to graduate school to study the web while becoming an accredited librarian at the School of Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. During graduate school she was a summer intern in Yahoo's editorial department. She also has MA in creative writing from San Francisco State. Her first book of poems was recently published.

Roxane Williams Books Processing Engineer
Roxane has been working with computers since 1995, starting as a desktop hardware technician, then doing top tier hardware technical support at Digital Equipment Corporation, and most recently was a senior web developer at Zone Labs. She used magic to get books into the Internet Archive as well as support the book scanning operation's hardware systems. In her free time, Roxane likes to read and ride motorcycles, but not at the same time.

Simon Carless Data Archivist
Simon is an editor and writer when not helping out at the Archive, and currently acts as managing editor for videogame industry website Gamasutra, part of the CMP Game Group. As well as authoring the book Gaming Hacks for technical publishers O'Reilly, he has previously worked as one of the editors for popular tech website Slashdot as well as a videogame designer for companies including Eidos Interactive and Atari.

Stuart Blair Imaging Engineer
Stu joined the Archive's Books Project in the spring of 2005, an avid reader enthralled with the dream of the Open Library. Focusing on image quality, he developed the Scribe image processing, color management, and camera management software, and consulted on the scanner lighting system.
An entrepreneur and technology leader, he's a veteran of two successful startups. He was co-founder and President of LaserTools, a company known for high-performance and high-quality printing technologies that was acquired by Adobe Systems. Later, he co-founded and served as CTO of Nimblefish, which developed and markets the leading high-response direct marketing system used by many Fortune 500 customers.

Stewart Cheifet Director of Collections
Stewart Cheifet has been an attorney, a media executive, and a technology journalist. He has worked in various capacities for ABC, CBS, NPR, and PBS in the United States, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. He has managed broadcast radio and television stations and was CEO of several media production and distribution companies.
He was former Executive Producer and host of the PBS series Computer Chronicles and Net Cafï¿½. He has served as President of PCTV, a company focused on broadcast and new media production in the field of personal technology.
He holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from the University of Southern California, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and he was a post-graduate fellow in technology journalism at the University of Chicago.


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	Brewster Kahle Board Chair
	David Rumsey David Rumsey is President of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and Chairman of Luna Imaging, a provider of software for online image collections. Rumsey's collection of historical maps numbers over 150,000 cartographic items and is one of the largest private map collections in the United States. In 2002, he received a Webby Award for Technical Achievement and an Honors Award from the Special Libraries Association for providing free public access to his private map collection at the David Rumsey Map Collection. Rumsey received his BA and MFA from Yale University where he was a lecturer in art and a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts, a group of artists working with electronic technologies. He serves on the boards of the Long Now Foundation, John Carter Brown Library, Advisory Board to Stanford University Library, and is a trustee of Yale Library Associates and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Rumsey has lectured widely regarding his online library work, including talks at the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Digital Library Federation, Stanford University, Harvard University, and at conferences in the U.S., Hong Kong, Mexico, Japan, United Kingdom, and Germany. He has contributed to several publications on cartography and the advent of GIS. In 2005 ESRI Press published his book Cartographica Extraordinaire. Recently, Rumsey has been creating historical map projects both in Google Earth and the virtual world of Second Life.
	Kathleen Burch Board Secretary Kathleen Burch has decades of experience in non-profit management, strategic thinking, and community activation, all to serve her passion and commitment to universal literacy and book publishing. After studies at Mills College in Oakland in English Literature and and graduate work in the Book Arts department, she founded a type & design studio and an independent publishing house, Burning Books, both of which thrived in San Francisco throughout the eighties. An understanding of the community's needs, along with her value for arts organizations, book arts and social entrepreneuring, drove Burch to go on to co-found the San Francisco Center for the Book in 1996. She now serves as its board vice-chair and on the executive committee in perpetuity. Besides sitting on several other community-based boards, she also chaired the board of Pro Arte Libri, an international arts organization devoted to the art of fine bookmaking. She has practiced symbolic communication through typographic languages since 1974, publishing the works of big thinkers such as John Cage, Robert Ashley, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and her own work on game theory and the culture of card-playing, with recent studies in the Visual Criticism department at California College of Art in San Francisco. Her work with Burning Books was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Mills College in 1996. She was a Xerox PARC artist-in-residence in 2000.
	Rick Prelinger Board President Rick Prelinger prelinger.com, an archivist, writer and filmmaker, founded Prelinger Archives, whose collection of 51,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation. Rick has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 2,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen laserdiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including "Ephemeral Films," the "Our Secret Century" series and "Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built," a laserdisc on the hostory of suburbia and suburban planning. Rick has taught in the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectured widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access. He sits on the National Film Preservation Board as representative of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and is Board President of the Internet Archive and also the San Francisco Cinematheque. His feature-length film "Panorama Ephemera," depicting the conflicted landscapes of 20th-century America, opened in summer 2004. He is co-founder of the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly reference library located in San Francisco.

	Alexis Rossi Manager of Collections Alexis has been working with Internet content since 1996 when she discovered that being picky about words in books was good training for being picky about data on computers. She spent several years managing news content at ClariNet (the first online news aggregator), and then became the Editorial Director at Alexa Internet in 2000. After taking a couple of years off to travel and make jewelry, Alexis returned to the online world when she joined the Internet Archive in January of 2006. Currently, Alexis is involved with the audio and video collections, as well as Open Library, the Open Content Alliance, and the Zotero/IA project. Alexis is on the eIFL-FOSS Advisory Board and the Editorial Board of NISO's Information Standards Quarterly.
	Andy Wright Executive Assistant-Development Coordinator Andy Wright was born and bred on the sandy shores of Southern California. She attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where she earned a BA in Media Studies, learned to hate snow, and developed a love for non profit work. She cut her teeth as a traveling intern, acting as support for farflung non profits throughout the country and has also worked as a freelance journalist and office drone. She loves unicorns, bacon, making stuffed animals and media democracy.
	Aryana Farsai Roborough SCRIBE Technical Support Aryana F. Roxborough has been involved in supporting hardware and software for 8 years, first interning at CBS Marketwatch in San Francisco, and then later working in the Klystron Department at SLAC, where she supported enterprise software and hardware. She has previously been a bamboo propagation manager, collective bakery and cafe entreprenuer, and self-defense instructor. After work, and between tech positions, she enjoys organic gardening and natural building with and emphasis on alternative energy and sustainable development. She is a graduate of the New College of California Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community program and currently lives in an urban eco-village located in Oakland, CA. Hobbies include making mosaics, ceramanic sculpture, riding and wrenching classic Honda motorcycles, and electronic music.
	Beatrice Murch Executive Assistant / Development Coordinator Beatrice comes to the Internet Archive with five years of non-profit administration experience, working with both non-profits and foundations. She claims to understand technology and has had a web presence since 1996 in some form or another, which you can check out courtesy of the Wayback Machine. She enjoys working in the non-profit sector and making the world a better place. She believes that universal access to all knowledge is a worthy goal and enjoys creating that reality. In the late 1990s, Willamette University gave her a B.A. in art history and French literature with a minor in mathematics. Apart from work, Beatrice enjoys travelling, political activism and geeking out with her friends. www.murch-sitaker.org
	Bernardo Elayda Technical Support Enginner When Bernardo was not looking at crawls of the web, he's a graduate student at University of San Francisco. And because he is a big fan of art, he volunteers as a webmaster for Art Design San Francisco. Turn-ons : Open Source, cognative learning systems, sushi, tapas Turn-offs : Fake people, bad breath, brussel sprouts, traffic
	Bill Moyer Software Engineer Bill Moyer has been developing distributed technologies for five years, and commercial and open source software for ten years. Prior to working in the Data Repository and the Collections departments of the Internet Archive, Bill worked at The Sausalito Group and at Flying Crocodile, developing distributed demographic database and data analysis software for corporate intelligence applications. Prior to Flying Crocodile, Bill developed and maintained the GNU C Compiler and related applications in Cygnus Solutions' GNUPro toolchain (acquired by RedHat in Jan 2000) from 1996 to 1999. Prior to Cygnus, Bill developed embedded communications software for First Pacific Networks.
	Bruce Baumgart Research Engineer Baumgart is a hardware tinker, software hacker, and geezer geek who now serves the Internet Archive as a petabox cluster technical support engineer, computer scientist, and open source evangelist. He spent the 1980s as an entrepreneur -- founded, ran and sold Softix, Inc. which built computer ticket systems around the world, including BASS San Francisco and Ticketek Australia. His formal education included a Harvard 1968 B.A. in applied mathematics and a Stanford 1974 Ph.D. in computer science for work done at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. His informal education includes work at institutions such as Xerox PARC, Foonly Inc., Yaskawa Robotics, and IBM Research at Almaden. The top two computer science questions he is pursuing for this year, 2005, concern characterizing disk data decay and tabulating lexical string frequencies on large corpora. Outside the I.A. Baumgart supports John Nagel's Team Overbot which is competing in the DARPA grand challenge robot race across the Mojave desert. Inside the I.A. Baumgart supports extending the computer science 'research access' part of the Archive's mission to provide 'universal access to all human knowledge'.
	Casey Nelson Executive Assistant Casey Nelson has worked at many non-profits prior to his arrival at the Archive. He is delighted to be back in San Francisco after a protracted stay in Seattle. He attended Gannon University and has a B.A. in English and Philosophy. He looks forward to the day that his favorite poet, Russell Edson, wins the accolades he deserves and until then enjoys reading, writing, swimming and road biking in Marin.
	Czeslaw Jan Grycz Curator of Books "Chet" (much easier to pronounce than his full Polish name) came to the Internet Archive following a varied and successful career in academic and scholarly publishing, library research, and non-profit management. For six years immediately prior to joining the Internet Archive, Chet was CEO of Octavo, a company founded in 1997 by John Warnock (co-founder of Adobe Systems). Octavo specialized in ultra-high quality digitization of rare and extremely valuable books from leading libraries around the world. It provided access to those books through innovative electronic and published editions/collections for both scholarly use and the pleasure of the general public, setting a high bar for standards in digital book imaging and visualization. Prior to his tenure at Octavo, Chet was on the staff of the Office of the President of the University of California, for 14 years at the University Press, and for 6 with the Division of Library Automation. He has been active in the library community of Central and Eastern Europe through his participation in the non-profit organization Libraries Without Walls, and has produced a television program called Great Libraries of the World. Chet is also a widely-admired speaker and author of several articles and books on publishing technology and library-related topics.
	Dan Avery Technical Product Manager, Archive-It, Web Archving Services Dan has been at the Archive since July 2004. Working on Archive-It gives Dan a way to apply his technical expertise and experience to ensuring that memory institutions achieve their objectives and fulfill their missions. Previously, Dan was a co-founder of an internet consulting company, a search engineer at a major search engine company, and a research scientist.
	Eric Volpe System Administrator Eric has been running unix systems since 1986, and has a particular interest in doing things on a large scale -- big archives, big mail servers, etc. Prior to joining the Internet Archive, he was chief Systems Architect at Critical Path, where as one of the first engineers, he designed and patented a scalable email infrastructure which served tens of millions of end-users. When not at the Internet Archive, Eric is a photographer specializing in semi-abstract large format work, and exhibits in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Eric has a B.A. in German literature from the University of Rochester, and also enjoys tinkering with old motorcycles.
	Igor Ranitovic Crawl Services Manager, Web Archiving Services Igor has been working with the Internet Archive since June of 2002. He came to the Internet Archive as a Data Archivist intern and in January of 2003 he became a full time employee in the Web group. Igor has a B.S. in computer science/mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College, and a M.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco. Igor is originally form Novi Sad, SCG. He enjoys music, art and geeeeek soccer.
	J. Mauthe Digital Scanning Coordinator - Bay Area As Digital Scanning Coordinator, J. is managing the daily operations of the Archiveï¿½s West Coast Scanning Center. It is her task to take hard copy books and turn them into Digital on-line masterpieces in a high volume operation. J. has been on the front line of publishing and retail distribution for 23 consecutive years. She has seen both sides the book business from managing large-scale retail and mail order book operations for Whole Earth Access to Associate Publisher for KQED Books, Sales and Marketing Coordinator for Hunter House Publishers and Editor for Cogito Learning Media. J has also built Internet businesses from the ground up for the two largest antiquarian bookstores in the Bay Area. J. discovered the Archive while researching her senior thesis on the digitization of libraries. Although J. is a recovering book hoarder by profession she is now a vocal advocate for open source materials. Her passion remains solidly linked to antiquarian books and their preservation
	Joel Krauska Cluster Hacker Joel has been hacking on Linux systems and networks since 1994, and as a youth he ran a BBS out of his bedroom. He joined the archive in 2006 to help support the Petabox cluster. Past careers include Network Engineer for BBN/Genuity and Network Architect for Exodus Communications. More recently he has spent time as an embedded systems engineer, open source evangelist and doing cluster application research at Cisco Systems. Outside of the archive, Joel enjoys sailing on the San Francisco Bay, skiing in Tahoe and supporting local theater. He has a BS and MS in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Illinois.
	Joerg Bashir System Administrator Joerg is a System Administrator who loves linux and complex distributed systems.
	John Berry VP of Operations John Berry is a veteran technology executive, having served as a CTO, VP of Engineering, and technology consultant for companies such as Planet U, Zatso, IBM, Rational, and AT&T. He has over 20 years experience building highly reliable distributed systems. He earned his B.S. from the University of Maryland.
	John Lee Project Manager, Web Group John has been developing software and managing projects for about 11 years. Most recently, he managed development and operations in a genomics lab at UC Berkeley, writing bioinformatics software and building Linux and Mac OS X compute clusters. John previously held software engineering positions at SGI and Apple, and served as lead server architect for the first- and second-generation wireless Palm handhelds. He has also spent some time coding in Amsterdam, skiing in Tahoe, and running marathons.
	Karl Thiessen Testing and Automation Engineer Karl has a knack for hanging around with people who are making the world a better place, so it's really no surprise that he wound up at the Internet Archive. A colleague said of him once: "We were changing the world before changing the world was cool." From helping to provide the first free UNIX services to students at UC Berkeley, to bringing the most effective HIV-prevention programs in San Francisco to the Web, to assisting engineers in designing earthquake-proof buildings, Karl has a fierce commitment to using computers to improve (and sometimes save) the lives of people.
	Mark Johnson Lead Engineer, Books Group Mark started at the Internet Archive in the Books Group, first writing the Java user interface for the Scribe scanning machine, and then the PHP image processing pipeline. His core expertise is in server-side Java/database applications where he spent 10 years consulting for large businesses, startups, and open source projects. In his spare time, Mark enjoys travelling to far away places, teaching, and playing with high voltage electricity.
	Michael Earle Facilities Manager / Jr. System Administrator Michael came to the Internet Archive from Olson and Company Steel where he worked as an Estimator/Project Manager. Prior to that, Michael was the Operations Manager at Scale8 where he designed, built and managed multiple data center both domestically and internationally. He received a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley.
	Michael Stack Software Engineer Michael works mostly on Heritrix, the Archive's open-source crawler. He has always had a fascination for postulates such as "information wants to be free" and "property is theft", so it's not surprising that he breaks out in goose bumps whenever he hears the Internet Archive motto "Universal Access to All Human Knowledge (for Free, for Ever)." In the past, Michael has been a sysadmin (once), stage manager, a not-very-good dishwasher, director of engineering (twice), laborer (demolition mostly), and software engineer (three or four times).
	Michele Kimpton Director of Web Archive Michele Kimpton has been a Director at the Internet Archive for three years. In her role, she works closely with national libraries, archives and universities to provide technical expertise and services in web archiving. She has developed partnerships with several of these institutions to collaborate on web archiving activities, including co-founding the International Internet Preservation Consortium. Prior to the Internet Archive, Michele worked in the high-tech-industry, mainly for-profit sector, for the last 20 years. Before coming to the Internet Archive she was one of the co-founders of an online digital imaging company, which was subsequently bought by one of the larger photo imaging companies. For the last ten years of her career she has worked primarily in technical management and business development. She has worked and lived in both Europe and Asia during her career. Michele has a Masters in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University, and a Masters of Business Administration from University of Santa Clara.
	Molly Davis Books Project Manager As an experienced animator, Molly Davis ran her own animation business as well as a design collective in San Francisco for four years. She came to the Internet Archive with a background in creating things for the Internet, as well as a strong record of running organizations. Molly received her B.F.A. from Florida State University and in her spare time djs on KALX Berkeley kalx.berkeley.edu and draws monsters www.rawr.net.
	Parker Thompson Data Archivist Parker worked with the Internet Archive from 2003 to 2005. He came to the Internet Archive as an intern in the Web group working on the Heritrix web crawler, and in May of 2004 became a full time employee in the collections group, where he built systems for storing and distributing digital collections (audio, video, software, texts, etc), and worked with owners of large collections to organize and include their data in the Internet Archive. Before coming to the Internet Archive, Parker worked for a small consulting company as a project manager/developer, and as a programmer for a large university developing CRM and knowledge management software. Parker holds a Master's degreee in information management and systems from the University of California, Berkeley as well as a B.A. (political science) and B.S. (informatics) from the University of Washington.
	Paul Forrest Hickman Office Manager Paul graduated from Oberlin College with a potentially useless liberal arts degree. Now, Paul lives in the Bay Area, skipping winters for a while and biking a lot! Hopefully, someday, Paul will be a piano tuner. Now, Paul reads a lot, cooks and bakes. And then eats it.
	Paul Jack Software Engineer Paul Jack has written and maintained software applications for organizations ranging from community nonprofits to the world's largest banks. He produced a cable access show on which he invited strangers into his home and then wrote poems for them, made an independent gay sci-fi action adventure superhero movie in his living room, and in general strives to be the strangest person you'll ever meet.
	Renata Ewing Partner Specialist, Archive-It Renata has worked on the Web since 1995 when she wrote reviews of web sites for Magellan's search directory. She was one of the first employees at Ask Jeeves where she helped create and manage Ask Jeeves for Kids. In 2004, she returned to graduate school to study the web while becoming an accredited librarian at the School of Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. During graduate school she was a summer intern in Yahoo's editorial department. She also has MA in creative writing from San Francisco State. Her first book of poems was recently published.
	Roxane Williams Books Processing Engineer Roxane has been working with computers since 1995, starting as a desktop hardware technician, then doing top tier hardware technical support at Digital Equipment Corporation, and most recently was a senior web developer at Zone Labs. She used magic to get books into the Internet Archive as well as support the book scanning operation's hardware systems. In her free time, Roxane likes to read and ride motorcycles, but not at the same time.
	Simon Carless Data Archivist Simon is an editor and writer when not helping out at the Archive, and currently acts as managing editor for videogame industry website Gamasutra, part of the CMP Game Group. As well as authoring the book Gaming Hacks for technical publishers O'Reilly, he has previously worked as one of the editors for popular tech website Slashdot as well as a videogame designer for companies including Eidos Interactive and Atari.
	Stuart Blair Imaging Engineer Stu joined the Archive's Books Project in the spring of 2005, an avid reader enthralled with the dream of the Open Library. Focusing on image quality, he developed the Scribe image processing, color management, and camera management software, and consulted on the scanner lighting system. An entrepreneur and technology leader, he's a veteran of two successful startups. He was co-founder and President of LaserTools, a company known for high-performance and high-quality printing technologies that was acquired by Adobe Systems. Later, he co-founded and served as CTO of Nimblefish, which developed and markets the leading high-response direct marketing system used by many Fortune 500 customers.
	Stewart Cheifet Director of Collections Stewart Cheifet has been an attorney, a media executive, and a technology journalist. He has worked in various capacities for ABC, CBS, NPR, and PBS in the United States, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. He has managed broadcast radio and television stations and was CEO of several media production and distribution companies. He was former Executive Producer and host of the PBS series Computer Chronicles and Net Cafï¿½. He has served as President of PCTV, a company focused on broadcast and new media production in the field of personal technology. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from the University of Southern California, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and he was a post-graduate fellow in technology journalism at the University of Chicago.

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