John P. Baker

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Gender	Male
Industry	Technology
Occupation	Chief Software Architect
Location	Heath Springs, South Carolina, United States
Introduction	I was born and raised in Lancaster County, South Carolina, graduating from Lancaster High School in 1973. I spent six years in the USAF (1979-1985) working on computers. I spent four years (2002-2005) in New Jersey, and I am again on the road on a contracting opportunity. I am a Software Architect working in the subfield of computer security, specifically on large-scale IBM mainframe computers. I have been involved with with IBM mainframe computers for more than 40 years, and have been a professional computer programmer for more than 35 years. Genealogy is an area of great interest to me. My family has lived in Lancaster County for some 260 years after first arriving in the American colonies some 385 years ago.
Interests	Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Genealogy, Government
Favorite Movies	Harry Potter (Rowling; first six, I have not seen the seventh), The Ten Commandments, True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, Big Jake
Favorite Music	Pictures At An Exhibition (Mussorgsky), Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Wagner), The Ninth Symphony (Beethoven)
Favorite Books	Harry Potter (Rowling; all seven), The Belgariad (Eddings), The Malloreon (Eddings), The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, A Christmas Carol (Dickens)