In my professional career (in the world of public finance) by necessity I had to figure out a way for the municipal portfolio of insured bonds to be available in ways to monitor the portfolio. This means I had to be able to extract all insured Bonds from a particular state or geographic region, with a certain credit rating or range of credit ratings, with different sources of repayment. I worked with the IT department to develop the tools needed so that various analysts had access to this data. While I did not learn to code, I learned about communicating business requirements, processess, data integrity, internal audit controls, etc.
While helping design front end on-line systems and retrieving data, I always wanted to be able to get to the guts of these processess–learning to code. Some may say I’m a control freak, but what better level of satisfaction is there in understanding how things work from the front-end to back-end.
This is where my journey begins!