About
Dan is an established leader of Des Moines’ emerging technology culture – building relationships with events like Ignite Des Moines, Whuffaoke, and the Movement Bash and encouraging others in his support of user groups, tech conferences, hack nights, start-up weekends, and arts events.
Community Involvement
- Des Moines Metro Opera Board
- Startup City Des Moines Mentor
- Ignite Des Moines Organizer
Open Source Contributions
- VR Juggler - Committer
- Refactored cluster networking for a three-fold latency improvement
- USDigital SerialEncoder driver for Barco Baron table
- Support for Mac OS X rendering of multi-screen, multi-window rendering
- Application-wide performance profiling
- 5DT Data Glove Ultra Wireless driver
- Flagpoll - Author
- An enhanced version of pkg-config that accounts for multi-architecture build management
- OpenSG - Committer
- Port OSGPassiveBackground to 2.0
- Occlusion Culling via ScreenLOD
- vrkit - Committer
- Frame-buffered Video Encoding / Recording
- Ruby Serialport - Committer
- Code refactor
- VS 7.0 support
- VE-Suite - Committer
- Build system improvements
- Boost shared_ptrs
- General code refactoring
