About Me
If you even notice the lucky guy on the left, thats me. The beautiful face on the right is my fiancée, as you may have guessed. There I am, software engineer, and student of foreign language - perhaps it helps to put a face with the name.
I’m currently working for ICS, as senior web developer, (I am now a freelance contractor) while I pursue my MBA. Yep, that’s right - a student twice over… I’ve been avidly fighting ignorance since ‘82 and have no plans of stopping soon.
To keep up the good fight I read a lot, and love to try things myself. My favorite books include Agile and Iterative Development -A manager’s guide, Design Patterns, Differentiate or Die, and The Pragmatic Programmer… just to name a few. I firmly believe that the software field is an engineering discipline - a mixture of art and craftsmanship. As such, I am still an apprentice, but I have big dreams.
My recent accomplishments include: graduating Magna Cum Laude with my BBA in 2005, winning the PHP i5 Innovation Contest (see link on right “i innovate”), and recently becoming a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer.
Well, enough about me, it’s not as interesting as the many topics I hope to cover on this site.
-Charles Abbott