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| The Professional Side |
By trade I am a computer programmer, systems analyst, software architect or
whatever you'd like to call a guy whose been in the glorious information
technology field since 1989.
I've worked primarily as an application/database programmer in a whole slew of
languages including, roughly in order, COBOL, C, C++, Visual Basic, ASP,
Java/JSP, PHP, and most recently ASP.NET with C#.
Starting in 2005, I've been working for the Texas A&M University
System as a systems analyst. It's a small shop, but we have some pretty
talented people on staff, so it's a good place to be.
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| Ye Olde Skillset |
I've been developing for PCs since the days of MS-DOS 3.X and I've
pretty much been a Microsoft guy in terms of tools since the
beginning. Early on I did a lot of Windows apps in Visual Basic
3, 5 & 6, then a bunch of N-tier development in ASP/Visual
Basic/COM+ web apps.
Since 2003 I've been doing ASP.NET almost exclusively. As you might suspect,
the dynamic
portions of this web site, of which there are many, are all done with an N-tier
.NET architecture. View My Resume.
I've
also done some significant work with JSP, Tomcat, WebLogic, Oracle and even
some PHP/MySQL, but as development tools these guys are miles behind .NET.
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| To Teach or Not to Teach, That's a Question |
For a couple of years in the recent past, I taught college classes in C++
programming at a local junior college. In 1999 I was offered a full-time
job as an instructor there, but had to turn the position down for financial reasons - working for 1/3 of a commercial
salary is never a good thing!
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| Moore On Writing |
I've been told I've a certain flair for writing and indeed I'd like to explore
that as a possible career once Monica is through with school and is teaching
for her supper. I have a couple of projects underway in this regard, but
time is always a problem (and a convenient excuse, too).
For those of you who have helped me with the proof-reading and what not, yes, I'm
still working on my novel.
I hope to put on a big push in 2006, but the truth is that I haven't
made the commitment needed to get a writing career started. |
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