Jim Manico

What are your most notable accomplishments over the past three years as an OWASP contributor?

 * OWASP Podcast Series
 * OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
 * ESAPI Contributions
 * Manager for Java Encoder and HTML Sanitizer projects
 * OWASP Marketing/Evangelism
 * OWASP Mobile Project
 * Traveled to OWASP chapters all over the world (free training)

What are the most significant challenges OWASP is facing?

 * financial
 * keeping basic services running
 * vendor neutrality

If you become elected, what would the top three things be that you would focus on?

 * fundraising
 * expand membership (developers) - we can improve on expanding developer membership roles
 * content reorganization- increase quality and remove old content that is not pertinent or out of date - make OWASP more consumable

What do you want to do as a board member that you can't do as an OWASP leader or committee member?

 * As a board member I will have more opportunities to serve as an Ambassador for the organization.
 * One of a board members main roles is too maintain a vendor-neutral stance when representing OWASP.

How does your past experience relate to this position?

 * travel internationally speaking at 30+ OWASP chapters through much of Europe and the US
 * provide secure coding training as talks and free seminars emphasizing vendor neutral open source information
 * have had a chance to "hear out" and interface with OWASP members on a global scale
 * interaction with several OWASP projects and committees
 * Worked with or partnered with several existing board members