The World-Wide Webfoot

aka Ducky, aka Kate Sherwood, aka Kaitlin Duck Sherwood

Professional Stuff

In August 2012, I decided to quit working for other people. I spent a year working on varous cartographic map mashups, but found that I miss having the purpose that a steady go-in-to-the-office job gives. I am now actively looking for work as either a software developer or an engineering manager.

I have realized that the thing that I care most about is working on something that people care about.

Things I am proud of

A mapping framework I developed that allows one to overlay very high numbers of polygons and points on top of Google Maps. I have a demo which lets users overlay various demographic layers on top of the 2008 election results. Note: my ISP has gotten significantly slower in the past year, so the maps are not as impressive as they used to be.
The two books I wrote: Overcome Email Overload with Eudora 5 and Overcome Email Overload with Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002.
A poster I designed for my husband which uses glyphs from about 100 different writing systems as graphical elements.
I am proud of the research I did for my MSc in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia I researched programmer productivity for my thesis, Path Exploration during Code Navigation, supervised by Gail Murphy. I then implemented a prototype of a differential code coverage tool and ran a user study to see if it was useful. It turns out to be really helpful.
Writings, both humor and advice.
The (now-defunct) Webfoot's Used Car Lots, which won a Best of the Net award.
My work as Host/Writer/Crew of the High Tech Heroes and Parents, Families, and Friends community access TV shows,
designed stuff (Furniture, household implements, drawings, Halloween costumes),
My (successful) proposal to and married the beautiful and talented Jim DeLaHunt

I have worked in a lot of places doing a lot of things in the high-tech industry.

The best and fastest way to reach me is to send email to me.

Why Ducky?