User:Eric
Eric's primary professional fields of experience include computer science, technology management, business innovation, software development, software architecture, data architecture, systems architecture, data science, information assurance, data security, systems engineering, artificial intelligence, data networking, and education.
Summary
Eric has more than 30 years of professional technology experience and has worked on some very notable projects. He got his first paid programming job when he was 13 years old. When he was 17 he was already working as an electronics test technician helping to build the NASA Space Shuttle. Eric worked full time as a junior programmer helping to develop the world's first production digital fly-by-wire flight control system for the F-16 fighter while simultaneously carrying a full academic load and earning his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. As a software developer, Eric helped develop a number of military systems, including satellite quality control software for the U.S., air defense systems for Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and automated robotic manufacturing systems for the B1-B bomber. In the institutional investment management industry, Eric supported multi-billion dollar quantitative/technology driven investment models in roles ranging from support for day-to-day operations to support for next-generation research organizations. As a technology director and startup innovator Eric has also worked for several entrepreneurial organizations. Eric completed his Master of Science in Information Technology degree and has also completed many doctoral level studies at Aspen University.
Eric is an enthusiastic autodidact and an occasional sesquipedalian. He enjoys reading, watching, and studying computer science, engineering, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, quantum physics, cosmology, philosophy, epistemology, game theory, investment theory, economics, political science, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, and history.
Eric is pursuing his technology passions via motleybytes.com. Eric's detailed professional background is available on his LinkedIn profile at www.linkedin.com/in/ericchristiansen/.
Aspiring Renaissance Man
Eric is still a work in progress. Accomplished in some areas. Still developing in others. He is an aspiring Renaissance Man. He embraces the notion that humans should try to embrace all knowledge and develop their own capacities as fully as possible. For Eric, this includes his development as an engineer, a poet, a philosopher, a scientist, an educator, a counselor, a mentor, a mixologist, a storyteller, a theologian, an adventurer, an autodidact, and a lover.
Personal Philosophy
Eric's personal philosophy is a hybrid mix of many philosophies, including his own. First and foremost, he is a probabilist, someone who maintains that for humans nothing is absolutely, certainly, true, including that statement. However, he believes that certain philosophies have an especially high probability of truth-likeness, or at least plausibility, in much of what they teach. Besides probabilism, these include analytical idealism, analytical psychology, absurdism, existentialism, hedonism, stoicism, informationalism, and technological simulationism.
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Miscellaneous Notes
- User:Eric/MiscNotes - Miscellaneous notes.
- Eric_Alan_Christiansen_art - Some of Eric's art.
- Category:MarketAds - Marketing Ads.
Other People Write for Eric
- Toast Beesley poems/Code and Fire - Lyrics and audio of a song about Eric. Written by Toast Christiansen with AI assistance.
- Honey Bee poetry/Sunset - A haiku created by burner and fire spinner Honey Bee.
