User:Pat Palmer

My academic background includes public sector management, computer science, linguistics and literature. As of 2007, I am currently an independent consultant and free-lance trainer and recently lectured on computer architecture, software engineering and other topics in the [MCIT program] at the University of Pennsylvania. Before that, I consulted on information-sharing software systems within pharmaceutical and insurance companies. My early career included several years’ experience developing telecommunications software and systems in AT&T and Lucent. I once spent three years doing graduate study in Germanic linguistics at the Univ. of Tenn but switched over to computer science without quite completing the degree requirements.

My undergraduate degree was liberal arts with a concentration in English literature and German (which I speak fluently). I like to play piano and mandolin, garden, watch birds, and read.