In addition to this role, he is a developer advocate for the Android platform team, and a long time open source advocate. In this capacity, he was responsible for some the past open source chicago events, such as Flourish 2007 and 08, and the Android Meet up during the 2009 edition of Flourish. Nowadays, in his current capacity as a developer advocate with Motorola, he is focusing on getting the Chicago Androids Group jump-started.