====== Dave Orme ======

Since 2003, David Orme has been a recognized thought leader in the Eclipse community.  Recently, he is becoming recognized for his efforts in the Chicago Scala community as well.

==== Eclipse ====
  * Eclipse board member: 2003-2004
  * Founded the Visual Editor Project, the first non-IBM project at Eclipse; led the project from 2003-2006.
  * Founded the the CompositeTable table control in Eclipse's Nebula project. This is a high performance custom SWT widget enabling developers to easily create interactive validated tabular data entry forms in Eclipse RCP applications.
  * Committer on Eclipse Platform and Nebula projects.

==== Scala ====
  * A regular speaker at the Chicago Scala meetup, including recent talks on Monads and DSLs in Scala.

[[http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/resume.pdf|Resume]]