- First name:

Pete

- Last name:

Kazmier

- Email address:

REMOVED

- Phone number(s): 

- Postal code:

01876

- City:

Tewksbury

- State or province:

MA

- Country:

US

- Organization(s) you work for or study at
  (please supply the name and city for each organization):

iBasis, Inc.

- Fields of interest
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
   medicine, bioinformatics):

- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).

- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
  if possible.

Not yet.

- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):

Common Lisp

- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
  near future:

Common Lisp

- Lisp implementations you have used
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):

SBCL, Emacs Lisp

- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
  in the near future:

SBCL, Emacs Lisp

- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:

Linux, OS X

- Number of years of experience with Lisp:

Only approximately 4 months.  Interest in lisp was the result of
reading several of Graham's essays.  Since then, I've read "The Little
Schemer", "ANSI Common Lisp", and now I'm reading Norvig's PAIP.

- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
  number of years and the name of the language):

C:       knowledgable, but used infrequently (special circumstances)
Perl:    knowledgable, but not used anymore (python/ruby preference)
Python:  ver
y comfortable, used frequently in past 5 years
Ruby:    comfortable, learned 6 months ago, preferred over python
Java:    very comfortable, used frequently in the past 3 years

- Total number of years of programming experience:

14 years

- Do you use Lisp:
  - at work (if so, how much)

No.

  - for study (if so, how much)

No.

  - as a hobby (if so, how much)

Yes.  I've been learning lisp for the past 4 months using it
frequently in my spare time.

- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
  If not, why not?

No.  I'd like to spend more time learning Lisp so as to make a
complete evaluation if I might be able to use it in other places.

- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?

Not yet.  I'm very happy to see the availability of several open
source implementations.  The only factor that may inhibit growth is
the lack of libraries compared to other popular languages such as java
and python.

- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?

When I become more proficient, yes.

- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?

No.

- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
  If so, where and how often?
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?

I'm not participating in any meethings, but thats only due to the lack
of availability of such meetings.  I'm not aware of any local groups.