I'm a programmer--started with Batch files when I was a kid, did HTML, then Flash animations with ActionScript, then CSS, and then JavaScript. In my career, I learned C# and Visual Basic in the .NET Visual Studio IDE by programming solutions on the side for the jobs I held. In college, I studied SQL, ASP.NET, Java, C#, and Visual Basic which gave me a better sense for SDLC and architecture. I graduated in 2010, but didn't make the jump to software engineering until almost a decade later.

No matter my role, I spent a career utilizing computer programming to enhance my work through automation, data analysis, and tool creation. I've built a SCADA system for a public water utility, done engineering on water treatment processes, done electrical engineering and field wiring/troubleshooting, been a salesman selling products and technologies. Through it all, I always founds ways to write code to augment and accelerate my goals. My ambition was to follow that passion and I successfully transitioned as a full time software engineer in 2019.

Now, I'm finally here, primarily developing web applications with .NET, using all sorts of cool technologies, including, most recently, Azure. Now that I've been doing it a few years, I realize how little I actually know and it's inspiring. I'll never finish learning and that's exciting.