Category: Bio

Amazon author bio

Amazon wanted an author bio for their Amazon Connect program which I thought I would give a try. Here’s what they got:

Michael Still released his first Open Source project in July 2000, and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a Tux out of fairy lights. He is the author of the recently published “Definitive Guide to ImageMagick” from Apress. His gym program states his exercise goal as “develop laser death vision”. Michael grew up in Canberra, Australia but now lives and works in Silicon Valley for Google with his wife and two kids. Michael is a past committee member of AUUG, Linux Australia, and the linux.conf.au 2005 committee.

Bio for AUUG 2004

Michael is an ordinary committee member on the AUUG board, as well as serving in a similar position with Linux Australia. He has been administering networks, systems, or writing code professionally since 1996, and currently works for a major Australian ISV. He is also extremely active in his local LUG.

Bio for LCA 2004

Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases based on Open Source for an Australian government department. He currently works for TOWER Software, who manufacture a world leading EDMS and Records Management package named TRIM. Michael is also the developer of Panda, an open source PDF generation API, as well as a bunch of other Open Source code.

Michael has a web site at http://www.stillhq.com

Bio for OLS 2004

Michael Still released his first Open Source project in July 2000, and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a Tux out of fairy lights. Michael has focused recent efforts on janitorial patches to the kernel, as well as the mandocs build target. His gym program states his exercise goal as “develop laser death vision”. Michael lives in Australia with his wife, two kids, and a cat.

Biographical information for Mikal

Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at http://www.stillhq.com

Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) from University of Canberra, and is currently studying towards his PhD from ANU.

Biographical information for Mikal

Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at http://www.stillhq.com

Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) from University of Canberra, and is currently studying towards his PhD from ANU.

Michael is an committee member of both AUUG (the Australian users group for professional Unix users), and Linux Australia.

He may be contacted at mikal@stillhq.com