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Joe Shirk

Joe Shirk is a technical translator and editor, specializing in science, aerospace, communications and networks in the English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian languages. He spends his free time researching, writing, and curating on noetics and futurology in his kb-log Information Interpretation.
 
Joe was previously Futureologist at Organic Design; Regional Director for Brazil at Eco-$mart; English Instructor at Estado do Pará Brazil; Chief Information Officer at Xstream Wireless Technologies; Software developer & Chief Technology Officer at Suncoast Business Solutions; and Intelligence Analyst, SysAdmin, Translator/Editor at the US Department of Defense.
 
He’s a perceptive and articulate “people person” who can analyze, apprehend, and convey complex and arcane subjects and systems. His IT specialties include RDBMS databases, SQL, SQL-Server, Business Rules inference engines, and Data Extraction & Transformation (ETL).
 
Joe studied English and Mathematics at University of Maryland Eastern Shore and earned his BA in Russian at the Defense Language Institute.
 
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