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Born in Guatemala to American parents and raised primarily throughout Central and South America, I've been programming professionally for over 20 years. After attending Louisiana State University, I trained at the US Naval Nuclear Power School and served in the Navy as an Engineering Laboratory Technician. Later, computer programming afforded me the opportunity to work around the world, including Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Spain, Hungary, Philippines, and the Ukraine. For the last 10 years, I've focused primarily on Perl, but have also become proficient in other languages including C#, PHP, XQuery, and most recently Lisp (Common Lisp and ELisp). Though I have spent most of my career as a contractor, I've also had the privilege to work in a more traditional sense with companies like Computer Data Systems, NetStar Argentina, and Microsoft. Currently, I work for R.R. Bowker, LLC., the sole dispenser of ISBNs for the United States. As a Senior Programmer Analyst, I design and develop new applications that manage, serve, and analyze large data sets consisting of meta data for all books in print. I live in New Orleans with my wife Tracy and two children.