I squeezed the Charmin on TV in the 1970s and was a VP of Marketing on Wall Street in the 1990s. I've competed in mathematics, playwriting and powerlifting.

I'm the tech reporter for a CBS Radio show and I want to build awesome products with awesome people because there is so much more of the world to explore.

I have happily invested over 600 hours so far, taking both free and paid online courses and attending as many Rails Meetups near my home.

The most significant portion of my learning was carried out during the Rails Web Development bootcamp offered by Bloc, from which I graduated in November 2015. I am continuing my learning, with online courses from Treehouse, Lynda, and CodeMentor.

I had never even heard of Ruby on Rails until I joined a team -- that won -- Startup Weekend Miami in October 2012.

I like the idea of problem solving, and determining if this problem is really a problem or perhaps it's just an iteration of something which has been solved before.

I enjoy writing out pseudo-code, and then determining what should be programmed and what should not. There are rules to obey and conventions to observe, and there is never a shortage of learning.

I also continue to be impressed with the efforts of the hardworking open source community, who continue to publish gems, libraries, and solutions to common issues. I've begun to contribute to some open source projects and I can only hope I can continue.

Seeing all of my Rspec tests pass gives me not only a sense of joy, but also accomplishment, and that all is OK with the world.