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I've been working with technology for over 20 years. My claim to fame is being the original author of twm. It originally stood for Tom's Window Manager but was renamed to the Tab Window Manager when the X Consortium became the owner of it back in 1989. I started it in 1987 and it was my first X program.

I wrote code for most of my career from microcode, to assembly, to C, C++, and Java. I work for JPMorgan Chase where I'm the infrastructure CTO for the Retail Bank.

My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tlastrange

• An Overview of twm (Tom's Window Manager) - Xhibition '89 Conference Proceedings
  
• swm: An X Window Manager Shell - USENIX 1990 Conference Proceedings
  
• Real World Products And Profiles - Lessons Learned From Complex Industries - atgOpen 2001

• twm (Tom's Window Manager)
• Virtual desktop
• swm (Solbourne Window Manager)
• tvtwm (Tom's Virtual twm)

• US05933142: User-controllable persistent browser display pages
  
• US6148298: System and method for aggregating distributed data

• An interview I gave to LinuxPlanet, February 2001
  
• That interview bubbled to the home page of Slashdot