So Here Goes..

Like everyone, I should have started this blog twelve years ago when I first began programming professionally.

To be able to market your skills, work on your writing, create connections, get feedback on your difficulties, and have a resource for your problems and solutions to look back on, there is little that can compete. To my team, to those who I will work with and hire in the future, to those who are just starting out, and to those who have been in the field for decades, start a blog, you won't regret it!

I am a journeyman, a generalist, and someone who takes great pride in what I do. I love solving problems for businesses, and for those I work with. Over the years I have built the smallest of brochure sites, for the smallest of small businesses to work on the largest of applications for major corporations. I have worked on over fifty project at more than a dozen companies.

I'm currently working for a mid-size, international company (in the data research and reporting space) and loving every bit of it.  Agile team of four developers, and a scrum master. No project managers! In total, the shop has thirty developers, with additional BA, QA, and managerial support. The current project is a Web API, using C# and Entity Framework. Given the multiple purposes, long term goals, and level of usage, maintainability and performance are the primary architectural concerns of the project.  Probably, the first time I have had to be cognizant of both of these features at the same time and to this degree.

I have a number of thoughts of how I would like to see this blog developed, but 1) I just hope I keep at it 2) It will serve me well over the next six months while I finish up the first phase or so of our Web API project.