George Heine

Biographical Sketch


1971
B.A. in Mathematics, Reed College
1971-1982
Ranch hand, carpenter, electrician, self-employed artisan, musician, teacher's aide, counsellor, tutor, maintenance supervisor, various other occupations in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

Learned arc welding, violin playing, and COBOL.

1982-1984
Mathematics teacher in Bangassou, Central African Republic.

Floated a dugout canoe five days down the Ubangui river. Learned French, Sango, Nzakara, and Arabic. Repaired school buildings damaged by termites.

1984-1996
Computer analyst, Bureau of Land Management, Lakewood, Colorado.

Specialize in the most complex and mathematically difficult programming tasks.

1989
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado. (Specialty: Statistics)
1994
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado. (Specialty: Applications of Probability to Optimization. Thesis: "Smart Simulated Annealing.")

All the usual academic stuff: publish papers, give talks, referee for professional journals.