User:Atlant

Hello!

I've been involved with electronics since I built my first crystal radio and have been seriously involved with computers since about 1970 or so when I started programming on a system running HP 2000C Time-Shared BASIC.

I spent 24 years working for

Realtime Systems. I spent my last few years at Digital working for the VMS Engineering Group in Nashua, New Hampshire

.

From May of

hard realtime embedded system

that controls the power and cooling of the testers.

For a while, I worked for

Web Runtime framework. But with Nokia's recent jump from their burning platform, the group that did both of those things has been almost-entirely made redundant

.

Fortunately, I had the good sense to voluntarily depart almost a year before the Nokia leadership acknowledged the platform fire and now work as a software architect for DEKA Research & Development in the Amoskeag Millyard in Manchester, New Hampshire (see the photo to the right). At DEKA I work on the development of cutting-edge medical devices with all of the emphasis on software reliability that you would expect. DEKA's software is developed using very robust processes, subject to a great deal of manual and automated review, and carefully archived to allow precise traceability, retrieval, and reproduction in the future.

I speak a wide range of computer languages plus a little English when necessary. I'm (slowly) trying to learn French and understand miniscule smatterings of a few other languages.

I've

Professor Henry Jones from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

: I write things down in Wikipedia so that I won't have to remember them any more.

I'm quoted and my picture appeared in the 2 August 2006 edition of the

Telegraph of Nashua in David W. Brook's article about Wikipedia and Wikimania 2006. [3]

In the recent past, I was a member of the Board of Directors of the NHCLU, the

anonymous coward (which you can still see on Archive 3 of my talk

page):

"The ACLU: One man's promise

"This is for all of you seditious America-hating, baby-killing, communist, queer mafia-endorsing, self-indulgent, child porn-loving, thought-policing, communist, perverted, inciteful, Christian-hating, Jew-hating, Jihad, morally blind, dispicable, detestable, American and British soldier-killing, pansies[4]: Your days are numbered."

^ Who knew so many kids' school-chums were "GAY!!!"? And how do the folks making all those allegations really know, unless...
^ Note to linkspammers: Just because I didn't remove their linkspam doesn't mean that your linkspam gets to stay. Point out "their" linkspam and I'll remove it, too!
^ Ahh, another person who knows who the "pansies" are! Funny how it always comes down to someone shouting "You're gay!". (And won't my wife be surprised!)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

This overdue barnstar is awarded to Atlant after I was alerted to his continuous invaluable contributions when he reverted vandalism on my user page twice. He remains a polite, patient, and friendly person despite all the things that can and do happen here.

sh^{Go Fish}

12:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your hardwork and dedication to making Wikipedia a better place. I, Sharkface217, award you this Original Barnstar. Good job! :-)Sharkface217 04:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Technology Barnstar
		For Distinguished Opampery in the Line of Duty 68.39.174.238 15:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

An interesting article killed by the deletionists

User:Atlant/List of film and television clichés