[sdeming]

Can't believe I missed this thread before.

I've been programming professionally since 1991. For the past 5 years I've been primarily doing contract work writing large telecommunications billing systems. The type of systems where we handle several million transactions per day. My part in the scheme of things at this point is a lead software designer, I get to solve the problems and write a good portion of the framework code and let others do the implementation code.

For schooling, I've had none though I did ace the AP Computer Programming course when I was in high school a dozen years ago. I've indirectly trained trained (aka I worked with them for extended periods of time) by some extremely good coders and I've most certainly taken a few blows on my own ego before realizing that I just can't possibly know everything! The one person I've learned the most from is a gormet chef by training, but took up programming because it interested him.

Oh, yes and my prefered language is C++. Nothing like the STL has ever existed. C++ takes generic programming to a new level.