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My nick is my initials of my full name '''W'''illiam '''M'''cBride '''A'''derson '''T'''raynor, which is how I am most commonly known onlineMost people call me Bill.  I am an avid user and hobbyist within the electronics, open source software, and Linux tribes ever since discovering I could cut a notch in a 5 1/2" floppy disk to make it double-sided.  I particularly enjoy and am interested in the gregarious nature of the open source community, the sharing of knowledge and the extreme levels of intelligence I encounter both in person and online.  I appreciate the pragmatic nature at the core of most open source projects and work to foster communication between highly technical people, advocate for programmers to be allowed to create, and build bridges between the business and technical worlds.
  
Acronymically, I am wmat as my full name is '''W'''illiam '''M'''cBride '''A'''derson '''T'''raynor, which is how I am most commonly known online.  On the street, I am Bill.  I am an avid user and hobbyist within the electronics, open source software, and Linux tribes ever since discovering I could cut a notch in a 5 1/2" floppy disk to make it double-sided.  I particularly enjoy and am interested in the gregarious nature of the open source community, the sharing of knowledge and the extreme levels of intelligence I encounter both in person and online. I appreciate the pragmatic nature at the core of most open source projects and work to foster communication between highly technical people, advocate for programmers to be allowed to create, and build bridges between the business and technical worlds.
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My basement office is filled with gadgets, development kits, odd hardware, and stuffed penguins.  I'm specifically interested in Embedded Linux and the SuperH architecture Linux port due (mostly) to an inherited Sega Dreamcast and a friend who happens to maintain the SuperH Linux code baseIn addition to a passion for code, I found myself writing more and more about technical topics, in particular on wikis. Sometime around 2006 I took on the task of moving the [http://celinuxforum.org Consumer Embedded Linux Forum]'s [http://elinux.org/Main_Page wiki] to a [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]-based server and have served as the administrator and editor of it ever since.
  
For most of my career I've been a Business Systems Analyst in the Financial Services/Insurance software world.  I've written more requirements documentation and technical specifications then I care to remember.  While making a living at the latter, my basement office has filled with gadgets, development kits, odd hardware, and stuffed penguins.  I'm specifically interested in Embedded Linux and the SuperH architecture Linux port due (mostly) to an inherited Sega Dreamcast and a friend who happens to maintain the SuperH Linux code base.  In addition to a passion for code, I found myself writing more and more about technical topics, in particular on wikis. Sometime around 2006 I took on the task of moving the [http://celinuxforum.org Consumer Embedded Linux Forum]'s [http://elinux.org/Main_Page wiki] to a [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]-based server and have served as the administrator and editor of it ever since.
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For a detailed profile of my work history please see my [http://ca.linkedin.com/in/billtraynor LinkedIn profile].
 
 
For a detailed profile of my work history please see my [http://ca.linkedin.com/in/billtraynor LinkedIn profile]].
 
  
 
To contact me, you can email:
 
To contact me, you can email:
  
 
btraynor (at) gmail.com<br/>
 
btraynor (at) gmail.com<br/>
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[http://www.traynortech.com Traynor Technologies]
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* This is my top level company.  It's incorporated in Canada.
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* This is my 'one corp to rule them all' so to speak.
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[http://www.alphatroop.com Alphatroop]
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* This is my enablement engineering company.  We do specialized technical writing such as API documentation, wiki management, documentation of Open Source Software.
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[http://www.blackflylabs.com BlackFly Labs]
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* This is my Android Development company.-->

Latest revision as of 20:54, 18 November 2013

My nick is my initials of my full name William McBride Aderson Traynor, which is how I am most commonly known online. Most people call me Bill. I am an avid user and hobbyist within the electronics, open source software, and Linux tribes ever since discovering I could cut a notch in a 5 1/2" floppy disk to make it double-sided. I particularly enjoy and am interested in the gregarious nature of the open source community, the sharing of knowledge and the extreme levels of intelligence I encounter both in person and online. I appreciate the pragmatic nature at the core of most open source projects and work to foster communication between highly technical people, advocate for programmers to be allowed to create, and build bridges between the business and technical worlds.

My basement office is filled with gadgets, development kits, odd hardware, and stuffed penguins. I'm specifically interested in Embedded Linux and the SuperH architecture Linux port due (mostly) to an inherited Sega Dreamcast and a friend who happens to maintain the SuperH Linux code base. In addition to a passion for code, I found myself writing more and more about technical topics, in particular on wikis. Sometime around 2006 I took on the task of moving the Consumer Embedded Linux Forum's wiki to a MediaWiki-based server and have served as the administrator and editor of it ever since.

For a detailed profile of my work history please see my LinkedIn profile.

To contact me, you can email:

btraynor (at) gmail.com