She has a variety of software development experience in IBM, from APL and LISP to C++ and Java. Beth has worked on Expert Systems tools, debuggers, tools for teachers and training/evaluation of ADHD children, and for making web sites more accessible to persons with disabilities. She became a fan of Eclipse a few years ago and enjoys writing tools for programmers and users including tools for porting C and C++ programs to Linux, and now for parallel programmers in the Eclipse project Parallel Tools Platform (PTP).