My name is Al and I'm a MV Newbie

Sort of. Ive been programming in Prime Information, Universe and now Unidata. I don't dare call myself a developer as I've never written a large, complex system from the ground up. I guess I just support and enhance existing systems.

My first exposure to MV, although I didn't know it at the time, was in Southern California through an owner of a small software company. His name was Mike and his company did work in Pick. He went to my church.

A few years later I was a consultant and was introduced to an application called COPS that ran on a Prime box and used a tool called Blacksmith. I also did someplaying around with a PC product called Revelation before going to Papua New Guinea for a short consulting/missionary trip.

It wasn't until I moved to Minnesota and was hired by a Manfact installation that I really got into it. I can assure you that I wasn't hired because of my extensive MV experience, it was a case of (really) small world. I worked there for over 7 years, was laid off for almost 2 and got hired by an Avanté shop where I reside today.

I'm now trying to figure out where I should go next in terms of knowledge acquisition. There is so much out there to learn and so little time.

In my spare time I love to fish.