About…
…the Blog
{anonymous => 'hash'}; is the professional blog of VM Brasseur. The title is a reference to the Perl construct of an anonymous hash. It is also a play on words, as the topics covered by the blog are themselves a hash of various things which cross the author’s mind. These topics may include but certainly are not limited to:
- Technical management
- Software design
- Software development methodologies
- Productivity
- Process improvement
- Open source, open data, open access, open everything
- Kai ta loipa
…the Author
My name is VM Brasseur. I am based in San Francisco, CA. You may call me ‘VM’ or ‘V’ or ‘Veem’ or ‘Veeb’ or even ‘Vicky,’ which is the short form of my given name of ‘Victoria’ and is, in truth, the name by which most friends and co-workers know me. However I answer to all of the above. TIMTOWTDI, after all.
As of 2011 I am in my twelfth year as a manager of technical people, projects, processes and products. My professional interests lie in technical management, free/open source software, open access, libraries/archives, technical writing, user-centric software development and a fair smattering of business and marketing (which is not evil, despite what we techies would like to think). While I have been a programmer and can read and understand most programming languages with little trouble I have no interest in generating code. Frankly, while it’s something I can do it is not something which I feel I should do (or, more specifically, be allowed to do). We all have our strengths. Mine is helping technical people do good things and do them well. In the very rare event I do code something it will be written in Perl, for which I have a very soft spot in my heart.
My résumé is available online in PDF format.
Other places I can be found on the internet:
- FirstStep, my personal blog since 2004
- @vmbrasseur on Twitter
- about.me page
- Google+ Profile
- Linkedin Profile
- My Flickr photostream, if you like pictures of cats
- Facebook (while I have a Facebook account I do not check it nor receive notifications from it)
There are innumerable ways to contact me. The most effective are, in order:
- Sending email to my last name at that free Google mail thing
- DM me on Twitter
- Hitting me at Google talk at my email address
- Skype me (knock the ‘@’ off my Twitter name)
AOL IM, Yahoo! IM, cellphone and Google Voice contact points available upon request.
