Nick Bennett is a software designer & developer, applied mathematician, curriculum author, instructor, and musician. Nick lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has worked in many countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
After completing work on a B.S. in Mathematics while serving in the US Navy, Nick continued his studies at the University of Utah and then Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received his M.S. in Operations Research and Statistics in 1986. Upon graduation from RPI, he began a career in management/decision science. Since then, he's delivered decision support tools and analyses for clients in production simulation and scheduling, product formulation and distribution optimization, agricultural and econo
Nick first began programming while in high school, continuing through his Navy tour of duty, and into graduate school. Software design and development has been an ongoing pursuit in his professional life—sometimes in support of his decision science work, and sometimes as his primary focus. Along the way, Nick has executed projects using dozens of programming languages and dialects, on platforms ranging from mobile devices to mainframes, from standalone machines to complex connected and semi-connected networ