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Me Academic path: I was born in 1978 in Akademytown, Novosibirsk. Finished school-college N130 (the best one in town and thus in the whole world :). After 8th grade I've chosen Math from the selection of Math&Physics, Economy, Chemistry&Biology, Humanitarian and plain flavors, called 'English', because the school is called English. About that time I've finished music school in piano, got my green belt in karate and received a certificate of Program Developer - System Administrator of the second level (don't ask me what this means, I have no idea). After being accepted to Math program to Novosibirsk State University, I've studied there for one year and transferred to State University of Campinas (Unicamp). Getting Bachelor's degree in Math in 2000, entered Graduate program in University of Oklahoma. Two years later after graduating from OU with Master of Arts in Mathematics, 4.0 GPA and a few math papers I've got a position at Microsoft, in Windows Security Team where I currently work (here is my resume if you like). So now I live in the fine city of Seattle, work, hike and ski in the mountains, play piano and keyboard in the local rock band and enjoy life every possible way, wishing you the same!

Will add something later... maybe.


Languages known: Russian, English, Portuguese - fluent
Spanish, Italian, French - can read with dictionary
x86 Assembler - just enough to use int21h
Basic, Pascal - long time ago...
MIPS assembler, LisP, ProLog - used to study in college
C++, Java, JavaScript & Perl - Did some projects at the university
С# (SOAP, XML, XrML) - currently work.


Hobbies:

  • Outdoors:
    • Hike and climb mountains - weekly in summer. Photos to come later.
    • Mountain skiing - this is my first season and my new passion.
    • Drive carts, my car - fast.
    • Roller skating, bike, kayaking and whitewater rafting.
    • Everything else.
  • Music:
    • Play piano and guitar, like to get together and sing around the campfire.
    • Play keyboard in rock-band, eventually we perform at parties and in pubs.
    • Listening preferences vary from classical music: Rachmaninov, J. S. Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Beethoven...; Jazz, Blues (from BB King to Chizh) classic rock: Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson ,Santana...; bards: Ivasi, Nikitiny, Zimovje Zverej, Shaov...; russian rock-punk-pop (still getting familiar with many ;). New discoveries: Auktcyon, Neschastnyj sluchaj, Mango-mango, Zoopark, Nol...; something from experimental, trance, others like King Crimson or NOM.
  • Literature
    • Prose - Nabokov, Boulgakov, Gogol, Kastaneda, Barikko...
    • Sci-Fi and fantasy - Strugackie bros., Lukjanenko, Saimak, Pelevin, Lem...
    • Blogs, docs, specs, manuals :)
  • Movies
    • So-called art - Tarkovsky, Bergman, Kurosawa, Jarmusch, Kieslovsky, Forman...
    • Other favorites: Pokrovskie gates, Dog's heart, Parade of planets, American beauty, Forrest Gump, Groundhog day, Amelie...
    • Some hollywood-like popcorn flicks like Daun Haus, Matrix, Brother-2, Goblin's Two towers translation
  • Programming
    • The very first game I wrote in Pascal: Pusher (DOS)
    • Small game in Java: Nibbles
    • Sample LisP game, encoded as a part of the AI project: bw.txt (see comments for rules).
    • Моя супер-пупер мегадрайв JavaScript page: Examples.
  • Used to play games a lot: Sophis, KB, Warlords, Civilization, F-19, Master of Orion, Doom, C&C, HMM, HalfLife, Diablo-2
  • Used to collect soviet stamps from 1984 to 1995

My e-mail: andymarch@yahoo.com
This one I use everywhere so e-mails might get lost in spam. ICQ #13117704.

My awards: . . . .
Briefly updated 2003.