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Jim

I got my Computer Science degree at the University of Manitoba. I did two and a half years of programming in medical research followed by twenty-nine years at Manitoba Hydro (electric utility). Most of that was spent on doing development and maintainance on an AGC/SCADA (real-time programming/process control) system that controlled the province-wide electric grid. The last ten years was taken up writing "glue" applications, system maintenance and monitoring applications, providing 24x7 application and desktop support and Maintaining our Microsoft SQL Server, and other Windows servers.I have programmed in FORTRAN (mostly), APL, PL/1, Cobol, Lisp, SNOBOL, ALGOL, Assembler (several flavours), C, C++, VB, vbScript and more recently, Python.I am married with two grown children and a most beautiful wife.I am currently retired (and loving it).

Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop, Windows 7 Pro.

Computers and programming (duh). Reading (usually mysteries). Wind-surfing, canoeing. Winter - cross-country skiing and the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzles.Books:Anything by Michael Connelly, James Patterson, Tom Clancy.Movies:Shawshank RedemptionA Clockwork OrangeGroundhog Day2001: A Space OdysseyHarold and MaudeThe Man From EarthTV Series:Friday Night LightsSo You Think You Can DanceDexterCovert Affairs

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Manitoba Hydro (retired)

Software Development