A howl on the wind…

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Developing software for operating systems Linux, Windows, and MacOS on archs x86, x86-64, and PPC.
Developing software using the GNU Compiler Collection, Eclipse/JDK, and Microsoft Visual Studio toolchains.
Creating and maintaining databases in PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Been using Windows (and DOS) since 1993, MacOS since 1996, Linux since 1998, and still use all three.
Installation and maintenance of server environments including Apache, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Subversion, Sendmail, BIND.
Macromedia Flash.
Adobe Photoshop (since version 4.0).

Working for VISL (Visual Interactive Syntax Learning) (Denmark) since April 2004.
Working on GramTrans and related technologies for GrammarSoft ApS (Denmark) since early 2007.
Created and actively maintaining Project JJ Chats since 1999.

Worked for GrammarSoft ApS (Denmark) on OrdRet, from August 2004 till November 2005.
Worked for Swords Online (USA), from 2004 till 2006.
Studied Computer Science at University of Southern Denmark from 2002 till 2005.
Studied at Svendborg Gymnasium on the mathematical line from 1999 till 2002.

Day-to-day operations and maintenance of the VISL sites, servers, and tools.
Designed and implemented VISL CG-3 as the next generation of Constraint Grammar; actively used by researchers globally.
Created WebPainter, a merge of the live language analysis run on live websites.
Created a visual word creator for Latin words.
Created a visual editor for sentence dependency trees.
Fixed several outstanding issues with the existing Java applets and games.
Converted several synchronous processes to be asynchronous with email notification of completion to ease server load.
Sped up several key live language analysis toolchains by orders of magnitude via pre-generating caches and other optimizations.
Created a new world map for the VISL front page.
Redesigned the VISL site with a new menu and search ability.
… and I could fill several pages more …

Project was a cooperation between VISL, GrammarSoft ApS, and Mikro Værkstedet A/S
Created a DLL interface in C/C++ between Mikrov’s MS Word front-end and the back-end comprised of Mikrov’s Staver.dk and VISL’s DanGram.
Overhauled VISL’s Perl-based DanGram back-end to load DanGram as a persistent embedded Perl module instead of running the piped chain each iteration.
Implemented a profiling and quality assurance test suite in C/C++ with toolchain scripted in PHP.
Proposed, designed, and implemented the primary OrdRet website from scratch. Hosted on my own servers.

Improved session security to eliminate session hijacking and protect customer credit card numbers.
Improved performance through optimizing SQL queries and caching complex computations in shared memory. In certain cases this resulted in a speed increase from O(n*m) to O(1).
Implemented “Flash Sales”: Putting a limited number of a product on sale for a specified timeframe.
Implemented “Advanced Search”: Ability to search for price ranges, qualities, and all sorts of details.
Implemented “Customer Also Bought”: Each product would have a listing of other products bought together with it.

Took A-levels in Mathematics, Physics, and English.
Would have taken A-levels in Chemistry as well, but there were sadly too few interested to form a class that year.
Worked for the school’s newspaper, Baenk, as editor, journalist, and layout artist.