Woody Wood

Over the past three years as a product manager at Amazon.com, Woody has overseen the design, development and launching of many of the Associates Program’s affiliate related technologies. These include the Omakase contextual links, the Associates Widgets and the revamped Associates Central website. Prior to Amazon.com, Woody was a Senior Research Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC) – an Australian research and technology transfer organization. Woody did research and consulting in the areas of resource discovery, large-scale distributed systems interoperability, and health informatics. Woody drafted the Australian Governments technical interoperability framework and consulted to Australian state and federal agencies on the use of standardized metadata for resource discovery. Woody has lectured in Distributed Computing and represented the Australasian office of the W3C in promoting the use of open standards for the development of Web-based technologies.