I've been programming since the early age of about 10 with my first programming steps on a commodore 64/128 (Commodore BASIC and 6502 assembler) and a bit of what I think was Fortran on an earlier specialized computer connected to an automated weaving loom, in a now long gone company my mother worked for, that still needed to be loaded by using punched cards. (think it was a PDP-9)
Later I moved on to Intel32 assembly (MASM32 format) on win32, and have dabbled in a lot of languages whatever took my fancy and in context of my needs: PHP and original ASP for webdev, c and assembly for general (CLI) programs, later on Visual Basic 5/6 for GUI desktop programs.
Worked for quite a few companies doing general tech support but also database back-end programming, like 3-COM USROBOTICS during the time the dinosaurs still roamed the earth confident that the dial-up modem was all anyone would ever need. Ericsson before the SONY era, where I developped the first initial WAP pages and gave support for the first ever 'data products' as we called it then, before the new millenium. And lots of other companies like various ISP and a webdev division of Confederatie Bouw.
Got bored a bit and a bit miffed at the lack of career growth combined with the constant necessity of having the prove myself time and again at every occassion, something I wasn't great at to begin with back then and took a different route that led me to our nation's biggest provider of public transport: SNCB, where I've worked for nearly 15 years (lacking 2 weeks..) as a Train Manager/Treinbegeleider/Accompagnateur de Train. the novelty and shine of that has also worn off over time and I'm finding myself now again on a fork in the road that leads me to here: the opportunity offered to me be the kind guys of Switchfully, back to development.
I know I'm probably the last one to turn this assignment in: didn't have much time lately and have been recovering from (pretty painful) surgery to my mouth and jaw the last few weeks (my apologies should I be harder to understand in the coming period). Please don't equate it to my current motivation with regards to the coming course: I'm really looking forward to it and to meeting you all.