A former Seneca Student, Newman recently moved to Ottawa to take a position with Fuel Industries (http://fuelindustries.com). Since starting with the company, he has worked on projects for companies such as Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Paramount Pictures.
Newman works with open source technologies within Fuel, and has evangelized the use of technologies such as Scala and Drupal within game development and web development.
When not trying to find new ways to implement Poker, Newman has an interest in the new breed of Functional languages and enjoys playing with as many semantically different languages as possible.