Once a U.S. nuclear submarine officer and a student of computer science at Cornell University, Drew has served as CTO of SoundSpectrum, an audio visualization software company that has shipped software for over 17 years. He is an expert-level designer and engineer of real-time 3D graphics, data visualization, computation, p2p, and distributed systems architectures. Drew is the Technical Director and Chief Architect of PLAN — from infrastructure to interfaces. He is a passionate advocate for community-centric FOSS technologies.