Sunday, April 13, 2008

Why I've been so out of touch

First, it was the project. Then, support calls--an insane amount.

We finally implemented the project! I posted before about the trips I took (here and here). In the last half of 2007 we defined a cross-industry, world wide standard for the exchange of quality data. After getting back from the holiday vacation, we implemented the coding changes in all our companies. We went from idea of a standard to the production implementation across three companies in nine months; we matched the number one record pace for the creation of the standard, and my agile project management style was a large contribution to the success. :)

It was some long working hours at the end. I'd hoped things would calm down some, but another application I support started getting a lot of support calls coming in. The work load hasn't really subsided, so it's still some long work hours and not really staying in touch with folks much. Sigh.

Well, as they say, if the work was easy, they'd hire anyone to do it.

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Martin works as an Application Developer and Technical Lead at a large manufacturing company in the Phoenix valley. In that role, he writes and maintains a quality application that checks the quality of the materials used in the manufacturing process. He has a variety of programming skills in various web, batch processing, and database languages. He has been developing computer applications professionally at five companies since graduating with his Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems from DeVry in 1985. He has additional professional interests. He participates in a variety of safety teams as an office ergonomics assessor, emergency response team leader, and safety communications. He also teaches classes about agile thinking and database unit testing. Outside of work, he occasionally teaches and performs as a middle eastern drummer, lift weights, and spends time with his wife and two daughters. He's an avid supporter of the U.S. Bill of Rights 2nd Amendment, a National Rifle Association (NRA) life member, certified NRA instructor for five NRA classes, shooting range life member, Arizona Citizens Defense League (AzCDL) member and volunteer, and runs 2nd Amendment Shop, L.L.C.