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== About Me ==

 * 27 years old, living in Austin, Texas, USA.
 * Graduated from [[http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/linguistics/|The University of Texas at Austin]] with a degree in linguistics.
   * Interests: computational linguistics, lexical semantics, constructed languages, writing systems.
 * Java developer at Texas Mutual Insurance Company since Mar 2010.
 * Previous Work Experience:

   * Mar 2008 - Oct 2009 : Java developer at Rackspace Cloud
   * Aug 2007 - Mar 2008 : PHP develoepr at Blogging Systems
   * Jan 2006 - Aug 2007 : Java developer at ARM
   * Aug 1999 - Dec 2005 : Java/Perl developer and Linux/AIX/Solaris administrator at IBM
   * Jun 1996 - Aug 1999 : Helpdesk / Jr. Network Engineer at Texas.Net (an ISP)
 * Started using UNIX in 1996.  Switched to Linux as primary desktop in 1999.
   * Current Distro: Ubuntu 10.04
   * Distros used: RedHat, Mandrake, Gentoo, SuSE, Kubuntu, Ubuntu

== My Projects ==

 * [[http://vaelen.org/software|Japanese Vocabulary]] : A QT4 app for learning Japanese vocabulary.
 * [[http://vaelen.org/software|Vidigi]] : A simple QT4 image viewer.
 * [[http://vaelen.org/software|Vortaro]] : A QT4 based Esperanto dictionary.

== Contact ==
 
 * Homepage: [[http://vaelen.org/]]
 * Email: <<MailTo(andrew AT SPAMFREE vaelen DOT org)>>
 * IRC: Vaelen on irc.freenode.org
 * Skype: Andrew.C.Young
 * GTalk: andrew AT SPAMFREE vaelen DOT org
 * AIM: vaelentx
 * Yahoo: andrew.young AT SPAMFREE rocketmail DOT com
 * Launchpad: [[https://launchpad.net/~vaelen]]

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