Teacher, Biologist & Comp.Scientist (M.Sc.) by education. 

Worked with SW construction since 1984 (Ix86 assembler, C & VB, UNIX C/C++, MSWindows Web & C/S C++, VB, C#). Primary roles as SW engineer, architect & tech. expert in R&D. 

(Re)discovered Perl in 2004 when solving a task of reverse engineering and analyzing a large SW complex of enterprise legacy code, -- using make & AWK... Switched to Perl in the next version of the tool, and have since used Perl for a tool doing log extraction and statistical analysis & presentation monitoring the performance of webservices. 

Using Perl to toy with paradigms and concepts (OO, HOP &c), -- and looking forward to Perl6 providing even more power to the people...