Meet the Netscape Developer Team

For those who wonder who is writing all of these wonderful new features on Netscape.com, we have assembled for you the following list of auto-biographies:

Tom Drapeau (http://www.netscape.com/member/tdrapeau) - Tom Drapeau is the lead developer for Netscape.com. Although it is the job he always dreamed he'd have, he's had a pretty good time for the last decade, writing code and building sites for Barnes & Noble, Online Retail Partners, Yahoo!, and Ask Jeeves. Tom is an excellent speller, having taken first place in his second grade spelling bee, and hates wearing ties.

Andy Fraley (http://www.netscape.com/member/Andy) - Andy Fraley is lead interface designer for Netscape.com. He is also an illustrator, writer and book worm. He enjoys book arts and print design, as well.


Figure 1: You can find all the developers listed on our About Page (http://www.netscape.com/about/)

Trey Long (http://www.netscape.com/member/Trey) - Trey is ye olde Netscape veteran at this point. His real name is James Long III, and he comes from a small town that knows more about fishing and mudding than the internet. He's been working IT jobs since he was 16 in everything from repair to support to programming. Trey wrote a Basic application launcher in middle school for the Math dept., it was in VGA and everything; man was it sweet! He learned C around the same time; since then his programming skills have been slowly waning. It's estimated that he will be completely worthless around 30 (only 6 years to go). He still doesn't have a degree because he's a terrible student and a slacker.

Craig Wood (http://www.netscape.com/member/Craig) - Craig Wood loves to write code. He started programming computers on a 3.5K Vic-20 in 1980. This led to a simple style of coding with shortcuts that are not often loved by other coders. However, this uber-efficient approach leaves CPUs with idle time to pursue other activities. Craig's development servers have taken to painting pictures or playing music in their free time. With an extended background in web spiders, search engine optimization and marketing, learned while working for his previous employeer, Did-it.Com, Craig was the perfect candidate to build Netscape Search. In May of 2006 Craig was excited to join the Netscape team. With the convergance of cellular bandwidth coming of age Craig has found the perfect job: writing code 2 miles out at sea while waiting for the fish to bite.

Christopher Finke (http://www.netscape.com/member/cfinke) - Chris Finke is one of several developers for Netscape.com, as well as Netscape's only in-house browser developer. His hobbies include cooking, woodworking, and writing short bios about himself. Bonus fact: Chris had never eaten a funnel cake until about a month ago, but he plans on having another one soon.

Blaine Garrett (http://www.netscape.com/member/blainegarrett) - Blaine Garrett is a new addition to the Netscape.com dev team hailing from the lovely Twin Cities. He has done development and consulting for a number of places including Reference.com and the University of Minnesota. In his spare time, he serves as the Executive Director for the TC based Arts non-profit The Art Attack and attempts to keep up on his artwork. He also pretends to be a musician and has recently started learning to play the theremin, which is only going so-so.

Travis Terry (http://www.netscape.com/member/travesty) - Travis Terry is one of the new kids on the block for the Netscape team, but he doesn't like New Kids on the Block. He's an old-school programmer from the dark days of client-side application development on Windows, who has found the light in web application development. Go Open Source! He enjoys programming, staying indoors on hot days, and programming some more with an occasional break for movies and video games.