A Little About Me

Proud Origins

I am not a developer by training or education, but by experience and persistence. My degree is in chemistry – a pursuit I loved and a life-long template for a way of thinking. I came to write application software because, unfortunately, the day-to-day life of a chemist, outside of research, is quite dull and repetitious-repetitious.

Even in my first exploration of automation, I wrote software that made me redundant.

I faced that exact threat, in fact. My “Time & Materials Contract” boss was really angry. He saw billing dollars flying out the window and I was to blame. I thought I’d done a good thing.

But my employer’s client saw the power in a machine performing 80 hours of drudgery in just four hours, freeing chemists to do other things. My position was saved and my employer was able to triple his billing as a result.

From Technical Models to Business Automation

Finding success in mathematical & technical models was rewarding but the market was small. Soon, a modeling client courted me as a business automation software developer.

“But, I’ve never done bidniss¹ software development,” I said.
“It’s easy,” they said².

I enjoy problem solving in the business domain more than I ever imagined and find business an ideal setting where software automation streamlines and simplifies day-to-day business and improving efficiency and avoiding mistakes³.

Experience

I have extensive experience in the following domains, as well as many others.

1. A little Tejas Lingo. ↩︎
2. They lied. ↩︎
3. Computers work quickly compared to humans. When computers make mistakes, they make them at the speed of light. ↩︎