About Richard
As a kid, I was always curious about how things worked and had an insatiable desire to build things beyond my means/abilities. Lucky for me, my parents and everyone else around me encouraged this.
I built small toys to play with, and as I got older, graduated to forts, tree houses, cars and a totally crazy hot rod. When I went off to college, I thought I’d do something with cars, which were my primary passion at the time. Engineering seemed like a natural path to follow.
At that point, I had never even seen a computer. When I was in High School, computers were mostly used by the government, the military and large companies. One of my first Engineering classes was programming in the language APL. That was all I needed to know what my career path would be.
I found writing software gave me all the intellectual stimulation of working on or building mechanical things like cars…without the burned hands, skinned knuckles and grease under the fingernails.
Later, in a senior project, I found the absolute joy of building something with a team. It was an amazing experience to work with others to build something bigger than I could ever do myself.
So that, plus a few years of experience in the computer software business took me full circle, from a kid that always wanted to build things bigger than possible, to an adult that works on massive software projects that boggle the mind.
About this website
I won’t be posting much personal stuff here, for that, see Google+ or Facebook.
This blog is about interesting things I’ve learned in my professional career, which has focused on software development and leading teams that develop software.
I’ll only add lessons that had a high impact and would be of interest to people working with me or in my industry.
Don’t expect a regular schedule for postings, significant things happen when they happen, not on a weekly basis.
Leave a comment if you like (or don’t like) what you read here. I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Richard