My day job: Currently I work for Fetch Softworks, makers of the great Macintosh file transfer program Fetch. I'm doing documentation, user interface design and feedback.
In my other life: I'm a big fan of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. I maintain the Peanuts Animation & Video List, a page with comprehensive information about all of those great animated specials. Recently I was interviewed as a "Peanuts historian" for the Warner Home Video DVD releases of several Peanuts holiday specials. I also contributed a couple of chapters about the Peanuts TV shows to 50 Years of Happiness: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, which is now in its third printing and is available from the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
I enjoy traveling and taking photographs of the places I visit.
From 1997-early 2004, I worked as a Macintosh software designer for MacDev at MIT. I spent most of that time working on Kerberos for Macintosh for Mac OS X. We worked closely with Apple to bring the Kerberos authentication system to Mac OS X, and our work has been included with Mac OS X since version 10.1. My contributions to Kerberos for Macintosh were the Kerberos GUI management application, installers, and documentation. I also maintained MacZephyr for Mac OS X.
Before coming to work for MIT MacDev, I worked as a product manager for UpToDate, who make medical reference/education software on CD-ROM.
Moving further back in time, I received a Master's of Education with a concentration in Technology In Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995.
I also worked on the Classic Mac OS version MacZephyr, a Macintosh client to the Athena zephyr system ("a real-time messaging and notification system") at MIT; was a Macintosh guru for faculty and the student labs at the Sloan School of Management; and developed courseware to teach computer graphics and 3-D modeling to non-computer science students at Williams College.
Not coincidentally I was an undergraduate at Williams, where I graduated with a mathematics degree (as well as concentrations in fiction writing and computer science).
I was born in Boston, and I lived in the area until I was nine. Then my family moved to Northern Virginia, where they still live. I went to high school at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, VA.
My mother is a piano teacher and photographer, and my brother builds decks and home additions.
In addition to the above, the Muppets, Doctor Who, and L. Frank Baum's Oz series all hold special places in my heart (and large chunks of my shelf space).
The previous versions of this page were waaaaay too long, so I'd better just stop here. Comments, questions, feedback, blah blah blah: e-mail me at smcguire@mit.edu.