I wrote code for many Colorado companies, including inventory mathematics for Coors Beer, a ticketing system for Copper Mountain Ski Resort, order entry for Current Stationary, online purchasing for Intelligent Electronics, and much more. A real-time bulletproof solution for Rocky Mountain Poison Control, a huge client-server system for Corporate Express, and worked with medical systems at Micromedex and Colorado Medical Consultants. Over the space of ten years, I met a lot of great people and create some solid computer science. I accidentally found myself working more as a computer programmer than as an electrical engineer. However, apart from a minor in computer science from Minnesota, all of my coding was self-taught. I went back for a Master`s degree in 1999 to see what I was missing. I really enjoyed graduate school, and ended up teaching a whole class of over 100 students for CSCI 3081: Software Methodology and Tools. I created a lesson plan incorporating puzzles and games, and received really good reviews fro, my students. I found teaching to be really rewarding, and I worked hard to communicate clearly and efficiently. After graduate school, I was lucky to be able to pick-and-choose interesting projects to work on. I was excited about work with math and science more than commerce, and learn a lot at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Qwest Wireless, the United States Geological Survey, Pulte Mortgage, and an offshoot of the Santa Fe Institute called BiosGroup. Manning Publications contacted me to turn the puzzle and games in my published class notes into a book called The Accidental Programmer series. Sadly, only one volume was ever finished, which I didn`t write but helped proofread. I wrote Java code to identify cow retinas in a large-scale database for Optibrand. And I wrote a .NET program for CCAMP (the Colorado Center for Altitude Medicine and Physiology) to help doctors identify hypoxia and altitude sickness in patients. Then I worked for six years for Lockheed Martin, working of several projects for the Department of Defense. I am proud that I received a Top secret security clearance and SCI (sensitive compartmented information) clearance... the highest I could achieve in that position. Now, I have moved away from Perl and Matlab to learn Python and R. I really enjoy Python, and use it for personal projects. I also love Java, and have done C# for two clients. I cam currently looking for working the New York City area. Please contact
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