User:Josephbrophy
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Retired Actuary living on Lake Sunapee, N.H.
Of Irish Ancestry: Ballyfin, Laois and Cloughboley, Sligo
Just a farm boy at heart
Just discovered (June 2006) Wikipedia; Believe it to be an important building block for civilization.
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[edit] Postions Held
- Private in USMCR and Corporal USArmy - Korea, Korean War
- Paramedic New York City Times Square Area. Tough duty when there is a full moon over Broadway.
- Computer Programmer & Systems Designer
- Rocket Scientist (feasibility of Polaris Weapon System)
- Consulting Actuary
- Chief Actuary
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Executive Officer (large insurance company)
- Corporate Director
- University Trustee, Chairman and Advisor
- Judge and Arbitrator (American Arbitration Association)
- President and Treasurer (Saint Patricks Pipe Band)
[edit] Accomplishments
- Accomplished Competitor Irish Step Dancing, Highland Bagpipe, Track, Football, Basketball
- Worked on OR team proving feasibily of Polaris Weapon System
- Fellow Society of Actuaries, Charter Member of American Academy of Actuaries and Enrolled Actuary ERISA
- Assisted in the exposure of the Equity Funding insurance scam
- Built Major Administation Systems for Insurance Companies
- Built Large Data Center & nationwide network
- Spearheaded the "Caesarian" Birth of controversial COBOL 85
- Pioneered in Distributed Processing: Nationwide deployment of Personal computers, (40,000)
- Built 40 HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations)
- Built Acoustic Room for Sound Engineering
- Discovered why Highland Pipes sound loud
- Built Astronomical Observatory on 40' Concrete Pier inside Silo
- Proved that it is genetically safe for second cousins to marry
- Founded WEDI (Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange)
- Through WEDI, enabled HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
- Authored Text Books and more than 300 technical articles
- Composer & Arranger & Performer & Collector - Pipe Band Music
- Unpublished Poetry
- Cubist - Rubik's Cube - 45 seconds
[edit] Hobbies and Interests
- Model Railroading (Marklin digital "HO" and "1" gauge)
- Model Car Racing (1/32nd scale)
- Musical Instruments (Piano; Highland, Parlor, Cauld Wind bagpipes; all other)
- Musical Synthesizers: Kurzweil and G.H. Boyd Electronic Bagpipe
- Genealogy & Celtic Studies & related Photography
- Magic & Illusions: Member of IBM International Brotherhood of Magicians
- Acoustics - of bagipes in Bell Laboratories
- Digital Photography & Photoshop CS
- Linguistics
- Poetry - student & collector of Works of Seamus Heaney
- Information Systems & Transhumanism
- Astronomy with a 14' Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
- Computer Security
- Analysis of the Rubik Cube
- Futurology
[edit] Articles Written
- Chevalier W. H. Grattan Flood work in progress
- History of the Sligo Mitchells work in progress
- History of the Great Irish Warpipes incipient stages
- Office of the Chief Actuary
- Glossary of Bagpipe Terms
- List of Composers who employed Pipe Music
- List of Eminent Pipers of all Ages
- WEDI WEDI - Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
[edit] Articles: Added Significant Content
- Actuary
- Actuarial science
- Colby-Sawyer College
- GLEON, Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network
- Lake Sunapee;Sunapee, New Hampshire; Mount Sunapee
- List of published bagpipe music
- List of bagpipe technology books
- Manhattan Valley; Lion Brewery New York
- Meat Cove, Nova Scotia
- Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia
- Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
- Society of Actuaries
- Transposing instrument
- Uilleann Pipes
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[edit] Articles: Added Minor Content
- Bagpipes
- Brother Walfrid
- COBOL
- Feather Bonnet
- List of bagpipers
- List of pipe bands
- List of pipe makers
- Insurance
- ledger and leger, Parts
- Mitchell
- Old English (Ireland)
- Overtone and Harmonic and Tone
- Piers
- Probability theory
- Piobaireachd
- Reed (music)
- Sporran
- Staple
- Treacle
