User:Auros

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Robert Michael Harman is a student of sustainable business residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among friends, he generally goes by the name Auros.

In August 2007, Auros enrolled as a full-time MBA student at the Presidio School of Management. His long-term goal is to become involved in socially responsible investment, helping to manage large pools of capital in ways that encourage sustainable business practices. In the short term, he is attempting to develop a business model for taking advantage of interest rate arbitrage to rapidly deploy efficiency measures for electric power, water, and other utility services.

Auros volunteers as an activist for the Democratic Party. In January 2007 he was elected to serve as one of 12 delegates from Assembly District 21 representing over 100,000 registered Democrats on the California Democratic Party State Central Committee. Since February 2007, he has served on the board of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition, the largest and most venerable club in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties; in this role, he has sought to coordinate activities of PDC with the affiliated Peninsula Young Democrats. He chaired the Santa Clara County Grassroots Steering Committee for Phil Angelides' 2006 California gubernatorial campaign, as well as joining several canvassing events for Jerry McNerney. He is a member of the Silicon Valley chapter of Democracy for America. He is highly interested in technical issues related to politics, such as gerrymandering, voting machines, and alternate election systems (such as Approval Voting and Single Transferrable Vote for Proportional Representation). Other major areas of interest include universal healthcare; tax structure and economic inequality; and global warming, alternative energy, and energy independence.

Auros worked for over six years at Motorola, as Language Lead of the Predictive Input Team. Most of his time at Motorola was spent developing new language packs for Motorola's iTAP engine. He also consulted on language-related issues across a wide range of phone functionality -- sorting phonebook entries, proper display of non-Roman-script digits, bidirectionality, etc. Through his work, Auros was exposed to many aspects of the Unicode Standard. He once wrote a humorous poem on the subject.