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Thank you for allowing me to share with you my passion for training and programming. My first computer memories were working on the TRS-80's in junior high school. I can still remember loading up the Oregon Trail on cassette tape. I thought that it was so cool. A few years later I began developing my obsession of computers and computer programming. My mother bought me two computers while I was in high school, a Mac Centris 650 and an IBM XT. My mother also bought me the book 1001 BASIC programs. I was hooked. Half the time I didn't even know what I was typing into the computer, but I loved to see the results. I had no idea that I could make a career out of typing code into the computer. A few years later while I was in college I started messing around with UNIX networks and BASH shell programming. I got a part time job with a company here in Phoenix called Internet Direct. Internet Direct was the first ISP in the state of Arizona. I began doing tech support and simple shell scripting. Later on I was told that I was going to do web development making "home pages." I loved it! I left Internet Direct and immediately started my career as a consultant. My first major job was with the Arizona State University Department of Psychology developing online interactive web-based classes. My first corporate job came in 1996 when I went to work for Motorola. I wore many hats there including NT 4.0 LAN admin, Exchange 5.5 admin, and Visual Basic programmer. While at Motorola I began teaching for the University of Phoenix MCSE/MCSD night program. I love teaching! I left Motorola and took a position with IKON Office Solutions were I taught full time in their MCSE/MCSD tracks. I also continued working my private consulting jobs. In 1995 I met my first true love, the Java programming language. I immediately started developing Java applets and servlets for web-based applications. Over the next few years I had contracts with Century 21, General Dynamics, and Honeywell. As of today, I'm having a great time creating videos for CBT Nuggets. Take care, and tha | 