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A long-running curiosity
Computers first caught my attention in high school through minicomputers and BASIC, then Motorola processors and the Atari personal computer. College brought COBOL, PL/1, and IBM JCL before a consulting job turned that curiosity into a career building software for banks.
The years since have moved through C, C++, Visual Basic, C#, .NET, JavaScript, web systems, APIs, databases, and a steady collection of useful side roads. The tools keep changing; listening carefully and solving the right problem matter much more.
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People are part of the system
I have worked as an employee, contractor, consultant, technical leader, sole proprietor, and software-company partner. Each role has reinforced the same lesson: business is personal because its decisions affect real people, their families, and their hopes.
I value maintainable work, honest tradeoffs, and communication that makes technical choices understandable. Good standards are not ceremony; they are a form of respect for whoever inherits the work next.