Note: I have organized my skill lists so as to emphasize things that I am interested in, rather than things most potential employers might want to see. This seems like a better way of catching the interest of potential employers that I might actually enjoy working for.

• Lisp. I have written Common Lisp, Elisp, and Scheme code, some of it even fairly recently. But I know that I have barely scratched the surface.
• Pure functional programming. I can manage Haskell, but monads are still beyond my intuitive grasp. That is, I can use them, but I don't understand them.
• Agile development. I would like to work as part of a team that intensively and consistently applies a methodology like Extreme Programming or Scrum.
• Data mining. I'm specifically interested in semantic analysis of natural language, and in building semantic models or ontologies from large bodies of data. I have no real experience with this, but would like to get some.
• Autonomous agents. Building behavior for virtual entities, such as non-player characters in game worlds, would be a lot of fun.
• Robotics, including both real-time control and higher level behavior, such as world-modelling. (6/2010 - I am reading Valentino Braitenberg's "Vehicles"; it is truly enlightening.)
• Electronics in general. For robotics, and because I'd like to build my own guitar effects.
• Meta-analysis; that is, analysis of development methodology and how it affects the products of software-development organizations.

• Technologies
• Functional and logic programming
• Object oriented design and development
• Device control via serial and network communication channels
• WWW/HTML/CGI 0$
• Expert systems, including Neuron Data's Nexpert ES shell
• Automatic code generation
• ODBC
• TCP/IP (application development and administration)
• Java-based technologies including Beans, JDBC, and IBM's VisualAge environment
• Oracle database administration
• XML/XSLT
• COM/DCOM/Visual Studio
• Platforms
• Unix (Linux, SunOS, Solaris, OpenBSD) (administration also, especially on Linux)
• Windows 9X/NT/XP
• OpenVMS
• OS/2
• Languages

(For a detailed outline of my experience, see my language collection page.)

• Python
• LISP (Emacs, Common, Scheme) 0$
• Prolog
• JavaScript 0$
• Forth 0$ (I've written a Forth (or Forth-like) compiler/interpreter/runtime for 8086/8088 PCs.)
• Tcl/Tk (and [incr Tcl]/[incr Tk])
• Expect
• PHP
• Motorola 6811 assembly 0$
• Intel x86 assembly 0$
• Java
• XML
• XSLT
• Visual Basic
• SQL, including procedural extensions Transact-SQL (Sybase) and PL/SQL (Oracle)
• Perl
• C/C++

June 1993-January 1997; May 1997-Present: TransCore ITS, Inc. (formerly JHK & Associates), Norcross, GA

Responsibilities: I gather requirements, design, develop, and maintain software for surface traffic management applications, such as intersection control. I've been involved in a primary technical capacity (architecture, design, and coding) in the following efforts:

• Control software for various roadside traffic-management devices under OS/2, Unix, and Win32.
• Soft realtime code for device control on various platforms.
• An expert system for wide-area traffic managment.
• Network data-distribution software using NetBEUI and TCP/IP.
• Java and XML-based graphical user interfaces.
• Compilation of SQL DDL into C++/COM/ODBC database-access code.
• Compilation of SNMP MIBs from ASN.1 into an XML format suitable for use by a variety of other tools.
• A complete management system for roadside traffic-management devices based on SNMP.
• Administration of Sybase, Oracle, and MySQL databases.
• Administration of a Linux-based virtual private network for telecommuting.
• XSLT for generation of DB management scripts and code from XML DB descriptions.

January 1997-May 1997: QuadraMed, Atlanta, GA

I left TransCore for personal reasons and accepted a job with QuadraMed; however, I quickly learned that I did not enjoy working in the insurance industry. Later developments made it feasible for me to return to TransCore, so I did so.

June 1992-May 1993: KnowledgeWare, Atlanta, GA

• I've been using Linux since 1992; my first kernel build was version 0.90, I believe.
• I recently wrote a utility that I've released to the public: mgrep.py, a grep-like tool for analyzing block-structured text files using regular expressions. I find I need to do that a lot.
• I also like to tinker with robots, but I don't get to do so as much as I'd like; that's where the 6811 assembly experience comes from.
• Recently, inspired by Leo Brodie's charming book, "Starting Forth", I wrote a Forth-like interpreter, compiler, and runtime environment in Intel assembly for my ancient NEC MultiSpeed laptop.
• I have done some work on documenting the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem.
• I currently (as of June, 2006) hold the rank of San Tuan (Black belt, 3rd degree) in American Kenpo Karate through the American Kenpo Karate Academies of Albuquerque, NM. I am a certified AKKA instructor.

Morehead State University, Morehead KY, 1986-1990: Bachelor of Science cum laude, with a double major in mathematics and English literature.