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Programming: Biography

Sandy has a PhD in Computational Astrophysics from George Mason University's School of Computational Sciences. While there, he also was sysadmin and one of the three primary users of the 69-node Beowulf cluster. At Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Sandy served for three different satellite telescope missions as science schedule. These tasks involved elements of mission operations, C and LISP programming, remote proposal handling, database maintenance, and liaison work.

In addition to algorithmic work on scheduling and AI at Goddard Space Flight Center and design work on GUIs, he ran a web tool company (ZapDeliver) and was partner in RPG Web Services, a custom web programming shop. He created one of the earliest online web photo courses, cutely named 'Shoot Your Girlfriend'. He created the first web-based voting for GAMA's Origins Awards, which increased voter representation hugely relative to previous years, and provided support for three years. He also has written some small Tcl/Tk educational tools and many PHP web scriplets, some of which are now open source.