Leigh Heyman
Leigh Heyman | |
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 Leigh Heyman speaking at Digital Summit AZ (2015) | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence College (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MBA) |
| Occupation | digital transformation consultant |
Leigh Heyman is the former Director of New Media Technologies for the Obama White House, where he served from 2011 to 2015, and a retired U.S. National Team coxswain.
Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Heyman ran the technology infrastructure for Blue State Digital, a digital political consulting firm for Democratic clients, including the Democratic National Committee and the Barack Obama presidential campaign. At MySQLConf 09, Heyman stated that his team managed the technology platform for the winning campaign.[1]
In 2011, he joined the White House digital team.[2] At the White House, Heyman focused on supporting the digital program for President Obama, focusing largely on Whitehouse.gov leveraging open source technology like Drupal to launch We the People to allow people to petition the administration on any issue. He and his team were also responsible for the high-traffic live stream of the State of the Union speech.[3]
Heyman oversaw the release of APIs permitting external access to data created by the We the People petition website. The release of the "write API" exposed the first U.S. government API permitting data to be written on systems by outside third-party applications.[4][5][6][7]
Heyman coxed the U.S. National Team Lightweight Men's Eight to 5th place at the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich, Germany.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ O'Reilly (2009-04-25), MySQLConf 09: Chuck Hagenbuch, "Database We Can Believe In: Stories from the Front Lines and Server Rooms of Barack Obama's Online Presidential Campaign", retrieved 2018-04-30
- ^ "Direct from the White House: APIs are key to extending platforms". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "Leigh Heyman on how the White House engages its constituents". AZ Tech Beat. 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "A Write API for We the People". whitehouse.gov. 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "The New We the People Write API, and What It Means for You". whitehouse.gov. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "White House launches 'Write' API for We the People platform - Fedscoop". Fedscoop. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "API expands 'We the People' petitions -- GCN". GCN. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "Leigh HEYMAN - worldrowing.com". worldrowing.com. Retrieved 2020-02-01.