www.prairienet.org/~dsb/
Dan Bensen
Lisper

Skills
Functional programming, software design, database design,
technical writing, training, research, quantitative analysis

Primary language:  Common Lisp
Secondary languages:  OCaml, Haskell, Perl, Python, Ruby, and others*

Platform:  Linux/Unix

Education
1989:  MS physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1987:  BS physics, University of California at Irvine

2002 to now
private investor, open-source developer
Urbana, IL
* Wrote numerical programs to analyze financial market data.
* Provided tutoring in introductory Lisp.
* Learned Lisp and functional programming.
* Currently developing open-source software for Common Lisp.

1999 to 2002
programmer, programming supervisor
Publication Services, Inc.
Champaign, IL
* Designed and implemented most of a (very compact)
  40K-line database application.
* Co-authored the user's manual.
* Developed testing procedures and supervised testing.
* Supervised a small group of programmers, scripted smaller
  programs, and provided technical support to other departments.

9/97 to 1998
substitute teacher
Urbana and Champaign IL Public School Districts
* Hung out with the kids.

1/97 to 6/97
research programmer
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Developed object-oriented spreadsheet software.

6/96 to 11/96
software engineer
Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
Champaign, IL
* Maintained scheduling, database, and graphics code.

1987 to 1995
graduate assistant
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Taught college physics.
* Conducted computer-intensive research in complex systems.
* Wrote graphics software and academic journal articles.
* Assisted in Unix systems administration.

*Other languages
APL, C/C++, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, [ba]sh, Prolog, PostgreSQL, Tcl/Tk, TeX/LaTeX