Email: dennis.darland@yahoo.com

1. Organizations to which I belong

   • The Bertrand Russell Society [Vice President/Electronic Projects, member of board of directors, Life member, former Treasurer[27 years]]
     
   • The Center for Process Studies [largely about Alfred North Whitehead]
     
   • The International Erich Fromm Society
     
   • The Association of Computing Machinery [Professional Member]
     
   • Sigma Pi Sigma [Physics Honor Society]
     
   • Unitarian Church QCUU Homepage & UU World
     
   • National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI Scott County & NAMI National
     
   • MoveOn.org
   • American Civil Liberties Union ACLU

2. Volunteer work

   • Vice President/Electronic Projects, The Bertrand Russell Society, (June 2008 - present).
     
   • Work on my own philosophical ideas(May 2007-present) (Thought about them much longer).
     
   • Developed open source software in Unicon and Ruby for arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic and numeric solution of systems of ordinary differential equations,(2000-present)(I had worked on this in some form since 1978).
     
   • Developed open source software in Maple for symbolic evaluation of Einstein's law of gravity (general relativity). (1988-present).
     
   • Treasurer, The Bertrand Russell Society, (February 1980 - February 2007).
     

3. Employment History

   • Senior Technical Programmer (July 1997 - January 1998), Montgomery KONE, Moline, Illinois, Developed elevator firmware, primarily using PL/M.
     
   • Senior Software Engineer (June 1994 - February 1997), TeleDirect International, Davenport, Iowa, Developed predictive dialing software, primarily using C++.
     
   • Independent Consultant (June 1993 - June 1994), Design and implementation of voice response software primarily in c. Conversion of applications written for system developed at Lee to purchased Unix system.
     
   • Senior Systems Engineer (May 1985 - June 1993), Lee Enterprises, Davenport, Iowa [originally called Callitco then Voice Resopnsxe, Inc.], Design and Implementation of Voice Response System in c. Wrote high performance file system, table driven compiler, mainframe interfaces, etc.
     
   • Data Processing Director (June 1979 - May 1985), Rock Island County, Rock Island Illinois. Started 1979 as entry level programmer [COBOL, RPG, - started as only programmer - all others had left], helped conversion from IBM system 3 to IBM 4331 [including systems [DOS/VSE,POWER,CICS,ICCF] and application programming [payroll,investments]], soon promoted to systems programmer, promoted to Data Processing Director in 1981, [took on budget, department management, continued systems and some application programming [payroll & wrote tax extension software]]
     

4. Education

   • Marycrest International University, Davenport, Iowa, (1992-1996), Attended graduate school in Computer Science.
     
   • University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, (1977-1978), Attended graduate school in Computer Science.
     
   • University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, (1974-1975), Attended graduate school in Philosophy (flunked out)(But didn't Einstein?).
     
   • Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, (1969-1973), Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy , graduated magna cum laude.