Dennis R. Friedrichsen

The bulk of Dennis' non-professional programming experience lies with a project called cardforge. This program was written initially by one person. Dennis first contacted this person and began contributing code in April 2008. Since then, the project has migrated to a Subversion repository, hosted on Google Code, and has grown to 29 committers and hundreds of users. Forge, as it has come to be called, implements a GUI, a rules engine, and an artificial intelligence component to allow human vs. computer game play. The project is written entirely in Java. Dennis has contributed many thousands of lines of Java code, along with fixing up some Python utility scripts and implementing an ANT build system.

Dennis has also written several small utilities for personal use in Java, Python, C, and C++.

Dennis enjoys participating in all aspects of theater. He has been seen onstage at the UW - Marshfield/Wood County as Antonio in "The Tempest", Henry Perkins in "Funny Money", Purser in "Anything Goes", Steve in "Hair", and a Protean in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" along with various other chorus roles. His most notable role at Marshfield High School was Andrew McNair in "1776". Dennis has been heavily involved in building the sets for many of those shows. While at UW-Madison, Dennis was on the running crew for a production of "Spring Awakening" that participated in the Great Lakes Regional of the 2000 American College Theater Festival at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, WI. Dennis was also the Master Electrician for a graduate production of "Endgame".

Dennis has enjoyed officiating ice hockey since 1995. Over the years, Dennis has officiated several youth state tournaments, WIAA high school games, and even games for the Great Lakes Hockey League. Officiating has been a great way for him to stay involved and give back to a sport he loves.

In 2011, Dennis started officiating lacrosse. It has been a fun and interesting challenge to learn a new sport from scratch and jump right in officiating at the high school varsity level.

Dennis is excited to be a published scientist. The following article appeared in a 2006 issue of Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. The complete reference follows.

Toulokhonova IS. Friedrichsen DR. Hill NJ. Muller T. West R. Unusual reaction of 1,1-dilithio-2,3,4,5-tetraphenyisilole with 1,3-dienes yielding spirosilanes and elemental lithium. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 45(16):2578-2581, 2006. (abstract)

Dennis is a member of the PDGA (#30878) and he enjoys playing frisbee golf while traveling around Wisconsin and also in the Madison Area. The courses in the Madison area are at Elver Park, Hiestand Park, and Token Creek Park (Vallarta-Ast DGC).

Professional Disc Golf Association