Looking beyond the 1s and 0’s of information technology and minding your
business’ dollars and cents. Building relationships and mentoring team members
to get the most for your organization’s human talent investment. I go the extra
mile to make sure that the solutions and services provided are delivered with
integrity, pride and commitment – on time and budget.
I have been developing for over 18 years professionally and since my first introduction
to the TRS-80 in 1978. Over the decades I have worked a wide range of programming
languages and technologies.
- Basic - Started in 1978 from an old TRS-80 manual. A great learning
languages and starting point. We all need starting points.
- Pascal - Mid 80s I got my first taste of a compiled language with
Turbo Pascal. I had played with Forth and Lisp and other langauges, but Pascal was
a great "next step" for a programmer.
- Clipper and DBase, Clarion and FoxPro - great transitional languages
and I used so many of them over the years. I lump these languages all together even
though they are radically different.
- Java - Write once - run any where? Fun while it lasted.
- VB - from 3 to VB.Net 4.0
- C# - good times
But now .....
moving beyond the coding world, pounding out thousands of lines of code.
There are tens of thousands of great programmers. About 10 years into my career I saw the
Y2K work ramp up and the market flood with code slingers at every level. From people
who did search and replace in COBOL to fix the century problem, to web developers
hopping on the .COM boom. With so many talented (and untalented) people on the market,
you have to ask "what will distinquish me from the herd".
Thanks to Brasfield & Gorrie's IT team in the very late 90s, I had the opportunity
to stretch in the project planning and organization world. A great company who's
projects "exceeds expectation", has a culture of excellence through project managment.
That culture permiated into the IT group with training in MSF.
In successive years, I worked with a QIO in healthcare picking up TQM and work with
6 Sigma. Subsequently, worked with project planning and project management and took
the opportunity to pursue a PMP certification.
- CompTIA Security+- During a HIPAA implementation it became clear
that proper training and experience in IT security was required.
- CompTIA Project+
- ToastMasters International
- PMI PMP (former). Though not currently certified, I achieved
certification in 2007. One of the most rigorous certfications I ever pursued. The tools and value
of the things learned are invaluable.