Gary Hewett - Chief Technical Architect and Cloud Developer
I solve business problems by providing unique and technically elegant solutions to automate and streamline company goals and activities.
I write software.
I design and build applications with the software I write.
I create applications that deal with 100s of thousands and sometimes millions of *things*.
I architect those applications to handle design and schema changes gracefully.
I use tools like Eclipse and I use platforms like Java, Tomcat and MySQL and I use providers like RackSpace and Amazon Cloud Services.
I call that collective effort Techano(tm)
I've written software professionally for 30 years. I love doing it and someday I might actually be good at it. I've more doubled Malcolm Gladwell's, 10,000 hours as mentioned in his book Outliers. I've learned so much over the past 30 years about programming, self development and most importably human nature as a result of the work I've done. I've learned most of those lessons the hard way, the expensive way and the long way. I did, however, learn the lessons very well and now I'm moving at a pace in life that becomes more and more interesting and enjoyable each and every day. I plan to share as much of that experience with as many as I can moving forward.
I'm currently bundling some of that knowledge and hopefully a little bit of wisdom into a new project known as Magic Marketing Systems. Magic Marketing Systems is a celebration of what I didn't learn up front when going into business for myself and an incubator for startups that could use that understanding to avoid some of the harder lessons life taught me. Lesson number one starts right now - learn marketing first!
I believe that helping once's community is the way to true wealth and as I take each new step in this constantly evolving journey I'm glad to see that wealth growing with me.
I still write software and will perhaps always do so.
I love to sit behind my 3 30" Dell monitors for hours on end in my Herman Miller chair in a zen-like state of silence and contemplate all the options and possibilities up to each of their various outcomes and be inspired to choose or create a technically elegant, maintainable solution to each and every aspect of an application.
I AM Aquarius and I've leant to relax into any situation and bring forth the solution that was already there just waiting to be discovered.
I write software.
I design and build applications with the software I write.
I create applications that deal with 100s of thousands and sometimes millions of *things*.
I architect those applications to handle design and schema changes gracefully.
I use tools like Eclipse and I use platforms like Java, Tomcat and MySQL and I use providers like RackSpace and Amazon Cloud Services.
I call that collective effort Techano(tm)
I've written software professionally for 30 years. I love doing it and someday I might actually be good at it. I've more doubled Malcolm Gladwell's, 10,000 hours as mentioned in his book Outliers. I've learned so much over the past 30 years about programming, self development and most importably human nature as a result of the work I've done. I've learned most of those lessons the hard way, the expensive way and the long way. I did, however, learn the lessons very well and now I'm moving at a pace in life that becomes more and more interesting and enjoyable each and every day. I plan to share as much of that experience with as many as I can moving forward.
I'm currently bundling some of that knowledge and hopefully a little bit of wisdom into a new project known as Magic Marketing Systems. Magic Marketing Systems is a celebration of what I didn't learn up front when going into business for myself and an incubator for startups that could use that understanding to avoid some of the harder lessons life taught me. Lesson number one starts right now - learn marketing first!
I believe that helping once's community is the way to true wealth and as I take each new step in this constantly evolving journey I'm glad to see that wealth growing with me.
I still write software and will perhaps always do so.
I love to sit behind my 3 30" Dell monitors for hours on end in my Herman Miller chair in a zen-like state of silence and contemplate all the options and possibilities up to each of their various outcomes and be inspired to choose or create a technically elegant, maintainable solution to each and every aspect of an application.
I AM Aquarius and I've leant to relax into any situation and bring forth the solution that was already there just waiting to be discovered.
