Revision as of 00:30, 8 August 2010

John Chew is a copresident of NASPA, cochair of the Steering Committee, member of the Web Committee, an ex officio member of all NASPA committees and webmaster for NASPA and the NSA.

He is also:

• director of the oldest sanctioned SCRABBLE club in North America, NSA Club #3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• director of the Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship
• assistant director and webmaster of the World SCRABBLE Championship
• a software developer, best known in the SCRABBLE community for his tsh tournament management program
• the 2006 Michael Wise Memorial Person of the Year
• coholder of the North American record for highest-scoring tied tournament game (502–502)

He lives with his family in Toronto, ON, where he is working on the defence of his PhD thesis in mathematics at the University of Toronto. He can be reached by email at jjchew@math.utoronto.ca or by phone between 9:30 A.M and 8:30 P.M. ET at +1 416 876 7675 (or at any hour during major championships). You can also send him chat messages on Facebook, AIM or Google Chat; email him for account information.

Recent activity

• 2009-03-01: launched online registration for 2009 National SCRABBLE Championship
• 2009-02-14: installed and configured NASPAWiki
• 2009-02-13: designed initial version of NASPA home page
• 2009-02-12: designed provisional NASPA logo