Welcome to Dave Orchard's World

This is the home of Dave Orchard. You can reach Dave at orchard at pacificspirit dot com, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook

I'm looking for engineering, advocacy and/or standards work in the mobile and/or web applications areas.

Career Progression

I have held a variety of challenging technical leadership positions in web standards and the web application development field.

• I joined Ayogo games in Feb 2009 as co-founder, VP Engineering and Smartphone Games Guru. I led Ayogo's smartphone, analytics, mysql/amazon scalability and a number of Facebook game engine projects resulting in many app store submissions, online game launches and customer prototypes. I designed and developed a wide variety of code across a variety of technologies, particularly ruby, merb, javascript, HTML5, CSS, MySQL, git, and all the google docs apis.
• I was employed at BEA Systems from 2001 until 2008 as Senior Technical Director, where I served as Web and Web Services standards technical lead including 3 elections to the W3C Web Architecture board led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. I led BEA's standards team growth from myself as first hire to 10 people by the time of the acquisition by Oracle.  
• I am a consultant providing web and iPhone apps to customers such as GraceNote, Tribal DDB and Alligato Mobile.
• I worked at Jamcracker, where I served as lead architect and standards architect and was responsible for the creation and evangelism of xml technologies, such as creating ITML Provisioning and helping create SAML.
• I was the first hire for IBM's Pacific Development Centre, now an IBM Global Services lab, and I was the lead architect and an integral part of growing the organization to over 300 employees. I was an evangelist and developer of key architectures and technologies after recognizing their significance to application development, such as discovering the Web in 1994, Java in 1995, and XML in 1997.
• I am an experienced public speaker and am published in numerous formats ranging from books and magazines to paid web columns.

A resume is available.

Life

Photos are being published to Flickr, which has a cool Photo sets feature and a pre-existing photo dir.

We're interested in Wines, coffee shops, and Restaurants with reviews. Visitors will also find a Visitor's guide to Vancouver.

I regularly do the Grind on Grouse mountain.