About Me

I’m an Invited Expert for the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Application Working Group (WebApps), which are working towards standardizing web applications and other interesting Web 2.0-like stuff. For WebApps, I edit the Widgets 1.0 family of specifications. My main interests are the Web and anything widgety.

I’m also currently undertaking a PhD at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.

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When I’m not nerding out…

I particularly like to walk… for extended distances. Both in 2005 and 2006, I walked all around New Zealand with my partner, Debra Polson. In October 2006, I walked around Spain for a week. You can see the photos of my Spain trip on flickr.I also like cycling, particularly mountain biking. I even did a couple of marathons:

In 2008, I did a four-day ride in the south of China with my dad. We cycled from Guilin to Yanshuo (270Km). See Yangshuo - Rice Terraces.

Think you might know me from somewhere?

I was born in Argentina, but grew up in Canada (hence my funny accent). My family moved to Brisbane, Australia in 1991, which I have called home ever since.

In my first year in Australia, I attended Ironside Primary State School for about 3 months before going to Indooroopilly state high school, 1992-1996. I then went on to do one year of Information Management in 1997 at the University of Queensland.

In 1998, I then started my degree in Communication Design (multimedia) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

In 2002-2003, I spent seven months doing my honours thesis at CWI, Amsterdam, with the Semantic Media Interfaces Group (INS2). I then returned to Brisbane, where I worked for the QUT’s Computing Services as a web developer (mostly HTML/ColdFusion/Oracle) and doing a few other interaction design projects.

In 2006, I started a PhD with the Faculty of Creative Industries (and partly funded by the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID)). In may 2006, I joined the W3C’s Web Applications Formats Working Group. As part of the group I edited (along with others) the Widgets 1.0 Requirements, the Widgets 1.0 spec, and the parts of the XBL2 Primer.

In March 2007, I joined the re-chartered HTML Working Group. In late April 2007, I left the HTML working group because of the volume of email being sent to the mailing list.

In july 2008, I quit my programming job at QUT in search of bigger and better things.