User:Sidney orr

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[edit] Sidney Duane Orr

http://www.artwanted.com/orlovititz http://dofaust.deviantart.com

Born and raised in Southern California, this user's father was a prominent baseball umpire, Pat Orr.

This user studied widely in the humanities; completed a B.A. at UCLA in 1970, and nearly completed an M.A. in English Literature at CSUDH, and some further graduate studies at UCLA, concentrating on linguistics, computer science, modern poetry, and Elizabethan English literature. The user has a smattering of French, Spanish, Attic and Modern Greek, and Hebrew.

This user was a amateur musician, who played the piano and studied the santuri, and gave piano recitals, and competed in national competitions as a teenager early in the 1960s. He studied composition and musicology with Nicolas Slonimsky at UCLA.

Thus user is a minor (but relatively popular) artist online, and minor (but published) scholar in genomics and textual analysis.

This user is an Information Technology generalist, and developed among the earliest RDBMS database editors and groupware at IBM in the early 1980s. More recently, concentrating on Middleware, Business Intelligence, and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) tools.

This user's forebears were professional athletes, writers, poets, Rabbis, farmers, horse traders, and members of the 7th U.S. Cavalry -- a few latter-day descendants intermarried with those tribes they formerly slaughtered (according to family history).