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Since learning APL in his first year of high school in 1975, '''Brian P Becker''' has spent the majority of time since then working with 3 APL language purveyors - [[I.P. Sharp Associates]], [[STSC]], and [[Dyalog Ltd]] and several businesses using APL across a wide variety of industries and applications including:
'''Brian Paul Becker''' is the APL Tools Architect at [[Dyalog Ltd]] since since March 2011. Additionally, he has maintained his own APL consultancy, Blue Dolphin Solutions LLC, since 1983. He has been recognized for his work in APL when he received the New York State Data Processing Association's Award of Excellence, and twice by ACM/SIGAPL for innovative use of APL.
 
== Accomplishments ==
Becker learned APL in his first year of high school in 1975 and has has spent the majority of time since then working with three APL language purveyors, [[I.P. Sharp Associates]], [[STSC]], and Dyalog Ltd, and several businesses using APL across a wide variety of industries and applications, for example:
* A long-range financial planning system that helped companies consolidate their charts of accounts when merging.
* A long-range financial planning system that helped companies consolidate their charts of accounts when merging.
* An APL-based source code management system
* An APL-based source code management system
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* Governance, risk, and compliance applications
* Governance, risk, and compliance applications
* Frameworks that help APL applications run on the web
* Frameworks that help APL applications run on the web
* and a plethora of tools, utilities, and amusements...
Brian has served as [[Dyalog LTD]]'s APL Tools Architect since March 2011. Additionally, Brian has maintained his own APL consultancy, Blue Dolphin Solutions LLC, since 1983.  In the 1990's Brian contributed to the design of the first [[user command]] system and several of his ideas have found their way into various APL implementations. Brian has been involved with the [[APL Problem Solving Competition]] since its inception in 2009, first as a judge and also later as its primary problem content developer. Based on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1-Q4KxxrA&t=26m56s feedback from the 2011 competition winner], Brian implemented the first version of [[TryAPL]] in 2012.


Brian has been recognized for his work in APL when he received the New York State Data Processing Association's Award of Excellence and twice by ACM/SIGAPL for innovative use of APL.
In the 1990's, Becker contributed to the design of the first [[user command]] system and several of his ideas have found their way into various APL implementations. He has been involved with the [[APL Problem Solving Competition]] since its inception in 2009, first as a judge and also later as its primary problem content developer. Based on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1-Q4KxxrA&t=26m56s feedback from the 2011 competition winner], he implemented the first version of [[TryAPL]] in 2012.


Says Brian, "I've been quite blessed to be able to work in so many fields, with so many talented and good people and APL has been the constant thread throughout that time."
== External links ==
* [https://github.com/bpbecker/ GitHub profile]


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