Hi, I'm Chris

I have put off posting my first blog for some time, talking about tips and tricks and online social networks, but I want to back up for a moment. Let me take a moment to introduce myself; Hi, I'm Chris. I would like to answer two questions; the first I am frequently asked- "What do you do?" The response to this has always overwhelmed me, as I integrate and automate in an array of applications as this blog continues, you will see that I don't make a list to impress, it's just a list of apps that I have worked in. It would appear to be a difficult task to integrate apps, but thanks to collaboration and online social networks, my abilities to meet such requests are better than ever. The second question is one that I ask myself, how to utilize collaboration to facilitate the optimization of ones own abilities.   So, here I am. Having graduated from high school, which I have to believe, based on my grades, would place me in the rankings near the bottom of my graduating class and nearly failing a computer programming class while there; you might think that college isn't likely, and working/programming even less likely. This might have all come true, except that I had an accidental discovery. It's not the type of discovery that teaches you how to get rich, my discovery was going to be the building blocks that would shape the type of professional I am and has given me the opportunity to do the type of work that I love with the college degree that is in a completely different field, but as I continue to explain in my multi-part intro-blog; as I have told many, in a way I never left my degree program, rather I might have re-defined it's use. Amazingly, part of the process of re-defining the “what kind of professional do I want to be”, gave me the opportunity to meet my wife.   But we will get to that later.   In the late 80's, I thought that I would like programming as I liked video games and gadgets; not a lot of deep thought, but it was high school. So while I was in high school, I took a computer programming class and nearly failed, so I dropped it. After this, I never even considered a possibility of programming or even working with computers as part of my job let alone as a career.   For some time I went on thinking that what I wanted to accomplish would be given to me because I wanted it.   It wouldn't be for nearly another ten years, but in 1995, I was in junior college, I succeeded becaused something I wanted was given to me, ironically for the last time, because something happened, which caused my ethics to completely change.   That one next on; Ethics Evolving