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My name is Tom Wheeler and I'm a software developer who lives in the St. Louis, Missouri area of the midwestern United States.
Although I've mostly held job titles like "Principal Software Engineer" and "Senior Programmer/Analyst" since the late 1990s, my broad range of experience leads me to help out in many ways beyond software design and implementation. This includes training, configuration management, computer/network security and system administration. I also love writing documentation nearly as much as I love writing code.
I am currently a Principal Curriculum Developer and Developer Advocate at Temporal Technologies , and was previously at Cloudera , Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) , WebMD , and a few other places before those. I've been active in open source for many years, although my work with NetBeans , was probably the most notable since I was a committer to the core-main repository, four-term member of the Governance Board and creator of the First Patch program. Although my schedule doesn't allow me to be very active in N