Hey, folks:
Well, since I’ve been posting here for years and lurking many years more, I figure it’s
way past time I introduced myself.
First off, I love Visio. I discovered it in 2003, and it set me free from the tyranny of graph paper, green plastic IBM flowcharting stencils, and Leroy Lettering kits.
Visio was crucial to the commercialization of the
three US Patents I hold, because before Visio there was no way to easily draw
models of its internal workings, let alone the data and process models it renders. But with Visio, things have progressed to the point where today I’m using Visio’s VBA back end as the operating system to automate the patents’ creation and execution of hierarchical process flows and data, not to mention using it for more mundane things.
Professionally, I started my technical career at the tender age of 17 as a contract COBOL programmer for the Bank of New Jersey, way back in the era of punch cards and paper tape, eventually evolving into a systems programmer coding in assembler. After joining
Toastmasters in 1997 I acquired the necessary speaking and leadership skills to transition to business analysis and business architecture, which is where I remain today.
I’m also pretty busy outside of IT as a professional public speaker,
author, and
prominent political figure, and I’m typically the first hit in search engines when searching on my last name alone.
There is a lot more I could say, but probably the most important introductory remark I could make to readers of this forum is to say
Thank You! It’s here that I learned about shapesheets, VBA, and all the other esoteric details that make Visio dance so artfully. Chris, John, Paul, Yacine, Wapperdude, June, Nikolai, Aledlund, and so many others, I’m in your debt.
Be seeing you,
- Ken
