Always Be Coding

Today my employer requested that I complete a “Corporate Biography.” By merely hearing the words, my Hacker Ethic was riled. The following is a portion of the result.

Job Title

Software Provocateur

Job Description

In my title as Software Provocateur, I have many roles: Customer Service Representative, Revolutionary, and Engineer. I view my activities as completely holistic and integrated: I am “all in” when it comes to software.

First and foremost, I am Customer Service Representative. Software is the ultimate expression of digitized human interaction; the human element comes first. Without customers, there is no business. It is thus my business to keep customers happy.

Secondly, I am Revolutionary. As we take the first few steps into the bright light of the Brave New Digital World that exists past the Industrial Revolution, we are each required to activate our domain. It takes a Revolutionary to ensure that success.

Lastly, I am Engineer. The primitive digital raw materials we possess today require precision and exactness of execution; careful and effective engineering is an implied and unspoken assumption.

In particular, I specialize in Student Information Interoperability: I have succeeded when student information appears in a computer, as if by magic.