I believe that the only way to make something good and enjoy the process it is by being passioned about it. This is my list of passions:
- Problem Solving Project
- Software Development
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
- Photography
- Building Things
Problem Solving Projects
Software Development
I like computer programing, it is like a game for me. I began to enjoy programing from 1985 learning BASIC from a book. I didn’t have a computer and my programs were “compiled” mentally by one of my uncles who would indicate the line error. I basically learned to think like the computer – compiling, debugging and executing my little software codes mentally. In 1987 I got access to a Commodore 64 where I got to test my BASIC codes in a real computer. My next programing language was Turbo Pascal and this was the beginning of learning programing languages, a process which never ends.
Almost all I know about computer programing and methodologies I have learned on my own. I have studied a technical degree in computer science but mostly for accreditation purposes and to learn what the “theory” says about what I have being using already.
I began my professional work developing tailor-made Enterprise Software in 1994 and this is what I am still doing. During these years I have also experience the technological changes in hardware and software and its affects on software development.
I like challenge. Making my first Enterprise Software was one of the greatest challenges I ever had. As a junior analyst I accepted that challenge without knowing what I was really doing. I was so involved in development that I didn’t have time to realize the importance and responsibility of each portion of code for the company for which I was working. I remember that after the system implementation I took a very short vacation. One afternoon I was walking to play racquetball and I passed in front of the factory for which I had made the software. I stopped and observed from outside watching customers entering, customers leaving with boxes of products, and the company trucks leaving with hundreds of products to be delivered. I imagined the cashier receiving the payments, the product storage manager requesting the sale reports to decide what to produce for the next day, the business manager requesting reports of sales to balance the expenses, and I imagined how many monetary decisions were based on what the system reported. And I became scared, really scared.
Thanks to God everything went fine, and after this baptism of fire I got to realize how much I have learned. So, I went for the next challenge. You can check my Enterprise Software category to see my developed projects.