User:Danodea

I am Dan O'Dea, something of a polymath.

Professionally, I am a mainframe systems programmer specializing in automation tools written in REXX and Dialog Manager for ISPF. I've also been a data security lead (RACF and internet), database administrator lead for IMS and DB2, online support specialist (also IMS and DB2) and SMS manager.

My hobbies are much more varied. I am an amateur paleontologist, naturalist / ecologist, and geologist, and have written many articles on those subjects as well as political science, philosophy, and education. I am currently working on a humorous book on raising children, sort of along the lines of Shirley Jackson's Life Among the Savages, and another book about science (or lack thereof) in politics. I am on the Inland Wetlands commission in my town.

I've also contributed several Wikipedia pages on the music of Harry Belafonte and other artists under the user ID User:MusicalDFO. At some point I will merge these two IDs into this one.

My primary goal at this time is adding to Wikipedia's Portal:Paleontology, although I am sure I will find other interests.