Welcome to APACHE!

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From: Mark Woon [mailto:                
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:27 AM
To: Avalon Developers List
Subject: Introduction


Greetings!

It looks like I'm the latest addition to the Avalon team, and since I
wouldn't want to break with tradition...

My name's Mark Woon and I'm 25 years old.  I graduated from Princeton
University with a CS degree.  I'm currently living in northern California,
and work in Stanford University's Medical Infomatics department.  We're
working on developing a pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic knowledge base that
will allow researchers to understand how genetic variation contributes to
variation in the response to drugs.  One benefit of this research would be
to enable doctors to customize your prescription based on your genes (eg.
higher or lower dosages, different kinds of medications, etc).

Prior to this, I worked at Netscape/iPlanet/AOL (take your pick).  Most of
my time there was spent on their web server, although I also worked on the
app server and meta-directory server.  I was responsible for installation
and server management, and if you've ever installed/managed the iPlanet web
server, you've probably had to deal with some of my code...  ;)  Since then,
I've sworn off any work related to install/uninstall/upgrades, which is just
a major PITA, especially on products that have to ship on 7 different OS's.

After working on the web server and before working on the meta-directory
server, I took a year off during the height of the dot-com craze to try to
start a company with a friend (doing monitoring/analysis of sentiment in the
financial/investment world).  Let's just say that the millions I was hoping
for failed to materialize...

While I've been using Linux since 1994 and have benefited greatly from all
the OSS projects around, I've never really had the time/opportunity to
contribute back, and I'm very excited to finally be able to do so.

-Mark



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