39 years is a long time. 39 years with the same company primarily as a programmer is an eternity + 50 years. But that’s where I stand. Wrapped up my career a few weeks ago. Over the course of those years my experience was diverse….

College. Computer Science degree

• Pascal
• C
• Fortran
• Assembler
• Operating Systems Design
• Data Structures

Then got a job…

• Mainframe work
  • JCL
  • PL/1
  • CLists
  • PDS
  • No email
• Supporting APL
• Drifting into End User reporting tools (SAS, Data Analyzer, IC/E)
• Working on OS/2
• Leaving IT to be a coder for business area in my company
  • Excel
  • Microsoft Access
  • VBA
  • VB 6
  • SQL Server and DB2
• Returning to IT to start something called End User Computing – Business partners building their own data based web sites
  • ASP
  • SQL Server
  • VBScript
  • later, .NET
• Moving to an area that wrote Python for AWS
• Finishing up in an area that was onboarding Power Platform as a low code offering for the organization.
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Dataverse
  • Microsoft Forms
  • CoPilot

A wonderful journey that now brings me here…looking to make this site a creative outlet to talk about what I learned, possible advice from an old fart, and thoughts on the newest aspects of technology.