He was the technical lead for Metaverse, an internal virtual world platform based on the Torque Game Engine. Rick is currently involved in developing OpenSim for use inside IBM and deploying OpenSim on a cloud environment. In addition to virtual world technologies, Rick is also involved in the adoption and development of open technologies inside IBM, including OpenDocument, Firefox and Linux. Prior to working on virtual world technologies, Rick was involved in grid computing and received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work as lead developer on the World Community Grid project. Rick holds a BA in Computer Science from Western Connecticut State University and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.