Friday, April 25th 2008
How I got started with Lotus Notes and Domino06:19:10 AMCategory : None
In the early 90s I was working as the
assistant to a Vice President at Bell Atlantic. One day I came in
and my VP had been fired, I still don't know why. I was given the
choice to assist another (creepy) VP or assist the Director of Software
Engineering. I chose the Director even though it was a step down
and they of course used Lotus Notes and I worked near many application
developers. I learned the client and started dabbling in development,
bugging the developers for help as much as they could take. I never
expected them to tell me what was in the help, but I would go to them with
thought-out questions so I think that helped. At this time I was
also a Certified Diversity Management Facilitator for Bell Atlantic and
that was a lot of fun.
After more than a year I asked my Resource Manager to be considered for a junior Developer position. He was in his mid-60s, retired military. I'll never forget his response. "But Jeff, you're just a secretary." Well I was a secretary, true, but I was efficient, extremely organized and analytical, all skills that would help me in the Notes and Domino world. Less than a week after that I put in my notice and went Independent. I taught End User classes for about a year while I took my certification exams and then studied for my Instructor Certification. During this year I attended a conference in Dallas. HTTP had just been added to Domino but it wasn't a real add-in task yet. I remember sitting there with the others writing over five pages on how to get HTTP up and running on a Domino server. Good times! A little less than a year after leaving Bell Atlantic I was a Level 2 Certified Instructor in System Administration and Application Development. I mixed things up over the years, teaching, taking consulting assignments to grow my skills, etc. Today I'm with Binary Tree working as an Application Developer, System Administrator, Instructor and Architect.
After more than a year I asked my Resource Manager to be considered for a junior Developer position. He was in his mid-60s, retired military. I'll never forget his response. "But Jeff, you're just a secretary." Well I was a secretary, true, but I was efficient, extremely organized and analytical, all skills that would help me in the Notes and Domino world. Less than a week after that I put in my notice and went Independent. I taught End User classes for about a year while I took my certification exams and then studied for my Instructor Certification. During this year I attended a conference in Dallas. HTTP had just been added to Domino but it wasn't a real add-in task yet. I remember sitting there with the others writing over five pages on how to get HTTP up and running on a Domino server. Good times! A little less than a year after leaving Bell Atlantic I was a Level 2 Certified Instructor in System Administration and Application Development. I mixed things up over the years, teaching, taking consulting assignments to grow my skills, etc. Today I'm with Binary Tree working as an Application Developer, System Administrator, Instructor and Architect.
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