Warren Woodford

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Warren Woodford is a computer industry veteran and the head developer of MEPIS. He was involved in the testing and rollout of the T1 carrier, datamodems, and electronic banking. In the late 1970s, he designed ground stations for TIROS N satellites that incorporated the 8086 as a front end processor. This was followed by designing a WWMCCS workstation for the US Navy and US Air Force that utilized the 8087 processor for near realtime encryption.

In the early 1990s, he was a NeXT developer, where he created a multimedia information technology called TheLibrary that foresaw the integration of multimedia in documents and the creation of linked information libraries similar to what has evolved on the web. Later, this formed the basis for information systems he developed to enable healthcare organizations including Kaiser Permanente and Catholic Healthcare West to more easily comply with the documentation requirements of JCAHO and ISO9000 standards.

He helped develop a global commodities trading system for Phibro-Salomon using NeXT computers and object oriented technologies. This was one of the biggest corporate success stories in the life of NeXT Computers.

While a consultant at Kaleida Labs, he collaborated with Marc Canter on the development and porting of interactive titles into the Kaleida Media Player environment, and demonstrated the concept of environmentally aware animation sprites. Marc and Warren presented the UnDoMe title at TED5 as a demonstration of the potential and practicality of interactive title development in ScriptX.

Warren was a consultant to Sun Microsystems, working for Jonathan Schwartz, on the development of Java Foundation Classes, the precursor to JavaSoft Swing.

He developed the first reliable Java debugger and a distributed CORBA debugger for Visigenic, parts of which was incorporated into JBuilder after Borland purchased Visigenic.

His consulting company was responsible for developing innovative Java based multitier applications for Ernst & Young. One of these, Web Auditors Workstation, was the first application touted by Sun as the proof that Java was ready for corporate deployment. A variation of WebAWS was used for several years by Intel and AMD to conduct their monthly critical chip inventories.

From 2002 to 2007, he focuses on developing MEPIS and building cross-platform applications for Linux and Mac OS, and even Microsoft Windows. More recently, he has encouraged the MEPIS Linux community to become more involved in determining the future of MEPIS.

Warren has returned to consulting as an Enterprise Architect. He is helping a large insurance company design and plan the construction and deployment of a Service Oriented Architecture.