Email: consulting at kaply.com
Website: kaply.com/consulting

Michael Kaply/Kaply Consulting

I have extensive experience working with Mozilla, Firefox and Firefox extensions. Whether it is writing an extension for Firefox or customizing and distributing Firefox within your organization, I can help.

Kaply Consulting

Brand Thunder

Starpulse Browser

Helped rebrand the Firefox browser for Starpulse.com

Sugarland /Julianne Hough /Starpulse

Technical aspects of branding extensions (not graphics)

IBM

Senior Software Engineer

Firefox Advocate (2006-2008)

Coordinated IBM activities around Mozilla and Firefox
Managed internal deployment and customization of Firefox
Worked with IBM product teams to ensure Firefox compatibility
Worked to encourage the enterprise adoption of Firefox
Blogged about various subjects relating to Firefox
Developed Firefox extensions

CCK Wizard - Creates a Firefox extension that customizes Firefox for deployment
Operator - Parses microformats on a web page and displays various actions
IE8 Activities for Firefox - Recreated IE8 Activities functionality in Firefox
Group Policy - created code to allow IE group policy to work in Firefox

Contributed microformats code to Firefox 3
Outstanding Innovation Award

Mozilla Browser Lead for IBM (2002-2006)

Lead team working on various IBM contributions to Mozilla/Firefox

SVG
JavaXPCOM
XForms
Bidirectional Language Support
P3P

Participated as a member of the Mozilla Technical Advisory Group
Outstanding Technical Achievement Award

OS/2 Browser Lead for IBM (1996-2002)

Team lead for IBM Web Browser for OS/2
Team lead for Netscape 4.61 for OS/2
Technical lead for Netscape 4.04 for OS/2
Lead for custom browser for Nagano Olympics
Mail/News lead for Netscape 2.0.2 for OS/2
Excellence Award for Olympic work

Honors & Awards

13 Technical Patents Issued

Professional Details

Skills

Programming Languages: C, C++, HTML, JavaScript, XUL, XML, PHP
Technologies: Mozilla, Firefox, Firefox extensions, XPCOM, microformats
Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2

Public Speaking

Semantic Web Austin Launch Party: "Microformats and Operator", Jun 17, 2008
ePortfolio & Digital Identity: "Exploiting Microformats with the Firefox Operator plugin", May 7, 2008
SXSW 2007: Panel "The Growth and Evolution of Microformats", Mar 12, 2007.

Publications

"IBM's Official OS/2 Warp FAQS", Book, 1998.

Education

Southern Methodist University, B.S., Computer Science & Math, 1993.