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In my opinion, resumes are dead. If you're looking for a vibrant creative person in today's world, you're probably looking for someone who has a web page, blog, or at least very strong social network presence. So, aure.com serves as my resume for the great majority of you, but if your organization is still rooted in its old fashioned ways and you need to have my resume, I'll succumb and provide it here. I won't promise that it will be as up to date as aure.com though!

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Cati Vaucelle Boulanger, Ph.D.

Researcher at Microsoft

“Aurelius has wings in the head! He will do whatever it takes to make his dreams come true. Discovering 10 ideas a day worth a company, he is one of of a kind to only choose what matters. He wants effective change. One day he writes a book on Ruby on Rails to help a crowd design their own social network, the other day he works on environmental solutions, reshaping solar energy, to affect the long term lives of millions of persons. He is 100% reliable, intelligent, friendly and caring, so if you have the chance to work with Aurelius, make it happen!”

Ramin Naimi, Ph.D.

Mathematics Professor, Occidental College

“When I want to do something, I put it on my to-do list. When Aure wants to do something, he just does it. He doesn't look at obstacles, but looks past them. (Or maybe over them, since he's so tall?) He's the most versatile person I know. When he has a new project in mind, even if it's something he knows little about, he just learns about it and figures out how to make it happen. But that's not why he's one of my best friends. I like him because he's smart, frank yet non-judgemental, and always has new and funny stories to tell you. You should try to meet him if you don't know him already; you'll wish you had met him sooner. I did.”

Ann Parker

Technical Writer, Cool Earth Solar

“As a contract writer/editor for Cool Earth Solar, I had the pleasure of working with Aure on a number of projects, including editing a patent for a very intriguing meteorological station that he developed and a funding proposal for the self-same met station that received $95,000 from the California Energy Commission. Aure is enthusiastic, energetic, intelligent, and creative, and I could add another dozen more glowing adjectival qualities without blinking... He's a true Renaissance kind of guy. He encourages those he works with to push themselves to the same levels of excellence as he pushes himself. What's more, Aure is *fun* to work with!”

Michael Hartl, Ph.D.

RailsSpace Co-author

“Having Aurelius Prochazka as a coauthor made RailsSpace possible---and not only because he recruited me to the project in the first place! In addition to keeping the prose crisp and honest, he wrote the initial implementation of the application code, handled all the figures, and served as quality control to make sure the book did what we said it did. As an Amazon reviewer noted, "One of the many things that made this book a pleasure to study is the code just works as is." He has Aure to thank for that.”

Philip Greenspun, Ph.D.

Co-Founder and CEO, ArsDigita Corporation

“Aure is one of those rare people who can (1) conceive of an interesting service idea, (2) design an elegant and simple user interface to the service, (3) design an attractive yet spare graphic layout for the pages, (4) develop a relational database data model, (5) code the page scripts that connect the Web server to the database management system. I.e., Aure functions like a 10-person team!”

Paul Giordano

VP Professional Services Sales, ArsDigita Corporation

“One of the smartest people I've ever met. I could always rely on him for frank feedback, accurate technical assessments and reliable execution on our projects. Hired great people too. He rolled up his sleeves and did the tough work himself when needed.”

Gail Anderson

Director, Electronic Media Publications, Caltech

“Aurelius is a confluence of amazing talents--incredible technical skill, empathy, design sense and communications ability. He always augments the quality of any project that he's associated with, always arrives at solutions to hard problems sooner than anyone else. Aure seems to work best by building on his considerable and varied experiences to extend the horizons of his comfort zone ever outward. He's always curious, always learning, always open to new ideas and new means of communication. Speaking as a project manager, it's a rare privilege to work with a developer of such high caliber who also has the capacity to appreciate and embrace the needs of all constituents--be they clients, end users, programmers, designers, writers. Speaking as a creative director, I can add that Aure extends the thinking on any project to higher levels. Speaking as a collaborator, Aure brings a sense of calmness, earnestness and gentle humor to even the most complicated and deadline-driven projects. Working with Aure is a sheer pleasure. I recommend him without reservation.”