Doug Turner is an employee of the Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Corporation

The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Navigator web browsers and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by a growing global community of...

 and long-time contributor to Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property...

 hired Turner in December 2004 to work full time on mobile projects such as Minimo

Minimo

Minimo was a project to create a version of the Mozilla web browser for small devices like PDAs and mobile phones.The project aimed to make it easier for developers to embed parts of Mozilla into systems with limited system resources...

 and Mozilla Joey. He was the Foundation's 12th hire. Turner was previously employed by Netscape

Netscape

Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...

 before the creation of the Mozilla Foundation.

Doug Turner invented Geolocation on the Web, Device Orientation on the web, and is a leader in device access.

Doug Turner was the maintainer of the now-defunct Minimo

Minimo

Minimo was a project to create a version of the Mozilla web browser for small devices like PDAs and mobile phones.The project aimed to make it easier for developers to embed parts of Mozilla into systems with limited system resources...

 project and now works on its successor Firefox for mobile