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I consider myself a database developer as much as an Internet developer. I spend quite a bit of time working with data and trying to better understand proper database design and programming.

Microsoft .NET Articles & Information

I have been working with Microsoft.NET since the pre-beta, starting in late August 2000. The more I get into .NET, the more I love it. I have been interested in doing some writing about development, so I have contributed articles to several of the large ASP.NET sites. In addition, I plan to use this site for additional code examples and things I learn along the way, as well as resources that are helpful (sites, books, etc).

I try to give back to the user community as much as I can, although with my new job my schedule is a bit tighter. However, I try to make contributions to the ASP.NET Forums as time permits.

I owe much of the knowledge I have to the help of a bunch of other patient people. I still have a lot to learn. That's part of the fun. Remember, to be a teacher you just have to know a little bit more than the person you are teaching. So give it a try.

My Job

Since March of 2003 I have been working as a software development consultant with Clarity Consulting in Chicago. I'm very excited to work with some very talented people and continually sharpen my skills. Clarity uses a team approach and is heavily focused on continued learning through mentoring and knowledge exchange. I've already had some interesting opportunities, including doing quite a bit of development at Microsoft for the Visual Studio .NET Online Rapid Evaluation sample site on GotDotNet. I also worked on one of the keynote demos for Paul Flessner's keynote at TechEd 2005. For awhile I traveled to be part of a major project out in San Diego for Brandes Investment Systems. A few of my most recent projects are a variety of online and in-house web enhancements for Socrates Media and enhancements for the USG b2b web site.

Previously I was at IMG Inc., a budget music distributor in Nashville TN for 3 and 1/2 years. My main focus was a music retail eCommerce site called CountryMusicUSA.com. The site was completely converted to .NET in early 2002 shortly after ASP.NET 1.0 was released. The current site doesn't have much in common with what I worked on while I was there.

I maintained our corporate Intranet for data entry and content management for IMG music products, as well as business support apps (shipment tracking, reporting, and account management). The final focus was on a catalog and report interface for the music masters (recordings) owned by IMG and a route sales inventory system. The IMG Intranet went live on .NET Beta 2 code late in 2001 and was fully running on the release version shortly after RTM.