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It's been a while!

I haven't posted anything here in quite a while!

  • From 1984-2009, I worked at IBM
  • From 2010-2012, I was taking classes at a community college to brush up on technologies
  • From 2012-2016, I worked at Teradata
  • From 2016-2017, I worked as a contractor back at IBM
  • Starting in 2018, I was working as a contractor at Cisco

One of the reasons I wanted to post here is that I was doing something at work with Python I wanted to share through a blog or something. I was trying to find one a site that kind of catered to Python or tech blogs from various authors but couldn't find one. Maybe I'll keep looking but I guess I'll try doing it here.

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