Hi, I’m Paul. I’m a Canadian living in San Francisco.

I like hockey, bicycle commuting, good design, discussing intellectual property law and baking chocolate cakes.

I don’t own a land line, wear a watch, or drink coffee.

Everyone should be able to describe their job in ten words or less. At Apple, I break Mac OS X so you don’t have to.

Living abroad gives me the chance to be slightly more patriotic than I would be at home. Yes, I play hockey, and yes, I speak French. And I like poutine. And Québecoise accents.

I have a soft spot and a not-so-secret passion for journalism. In high school, I spent a year at Southam’s R&D facility, the InfoLab. At Waterloo, I spent three years at Imprint learning to love to write.

I like crossword puzzles, trivia, and watching Jeopardy!, but you could probably kick my ass at Scrabble.

Hockey is my sport. I’ve been playing since I was eleven. I enjoy pretty much any team sport—softball, volleyball, football, ultimate, soccer. I ride a Trek Pilot 2.1 and a Ride Decade.

I wish I wasn’t allergic to dogs so I could have a golden retriever.

Technology bio

Paul Schreiber has fourteen years of computer industry experience, having spent time at startups (including one he cofounded) and large corporations. He has worked on projects in many fields, including nonprofit, media, education, manufacturing, music, auctions, operating systems and Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French from the University of Waterloo (2001), and is an alumnus of Shad Valley Calgary (1996) and Nelson High School (1996).

Music bio

Paul has been involved aspects of music for ten years. He has attended hundreds of shows, written for Imprint, sold merchandise and taken thousands of photographs. The cofounder and former architect for Community Musician, Paul now runs a successful house concert series.

Which Paul Schreiber?

I was the Paul Schreiber who went to Pauline Johnson Public School, John T. Tuck Public School, Nelson High School, the University of Waterloo and Shad Valley Calgary.

I used to hang out on FirstClass systems—the Daily Planet (Burlington), Magic and Sanctuary (Toronto), SoftArc and a few others.

I still hang out on a few mailing lists, like fumbling-towards-ecstasy, pho and headline-girl. I have contributed to This is Broken, Emergent Music, Yelp and the Freakonomics blog. I have accounts on several social networking web sites.

At Nelson, I kept score for the Mud Hens and answered questions for School Reach. At Waterloo, I wrote for Imprint, cofounded uwstudent.org, co-chaired Students Advising Co-op (SAC) for a term, built the WatPubs web site, wrote software for OCO, UW’s open source group, helped out at WCRI, attempted to answer some Quiz Bowl questions and kept score and announced games for the Warriors.

I’ve worked at quite a few places.

The not-mes

I am not a writer for Newsweek, a Marine Colonel or a Major League Baseball umpire. My middle initial is not “D,” and there’s no high school named for me in New York.

I’ve never been to Schreiber, Ontario, but I hear they pronounce it funny.

Where you’ve seen me

Maybe at a conference. I’ve attended YAPC (2001), MacHack (2001, 2002), WWDC (2001–2008), Macworld Boston (1997), Macworld SF (2000, 2002–2009), the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies (2004), Open Source Convention (2004), OS X Conference (2004), the Music Law Conference at Hastings (2004), CTIA (2004), DUX (2005), Good Experience Live (GEL) (2005–09) SXSW Interactive (2006–09) and the San Francisco Music Tech Summit (2008–09)

I presented at MacHack 2002 and WWDC 2005–07.

Perhaps you saw me at BayCHI or COBA. Or at a concert, standing near the front, likely with camera in hand.

I also like music festivals. I’ve been to Lilith Fair Toronto and Mountain View (1998, 1999), Hillside (most recently 2003), CMW (a few times), NXNE (a few times), the Oakland Art and Soul Fesitval (2003, 2005), the San Diego Indie Music Festival (2004), FAR West (2005), ROCKRGRL (2005) and SXSW (2006–09).