I've pretty much dedicated the last handful of years on SMS, but i come from a varied and deeply technical background in computing.
It all began with a ZX80 back when I was 13/14 years old. I was instantly hooked. I like to think my "Golden years" where programming 68000 assembler for the Commodore A500. I had so much fun with that system and it's custom chipsets, writing demo's and stuff. That machine was way beyond it's time.
I moved to a PC, tried Assembler there, but who wants to address memory in a non-linear fashion? urgh it put me off so i ended up tinkering with Turbo Pascal and Visual Basic then gave up programming all-together and instead focused on Microsoft desktop\server technologies. Unfortunately my l33t programming skillz(TM) fell to the wayside, replaced by Scripting skillz(TM) when I need to get something done. Ultimately, after having spent a fair bit of time as a domain admin in a rather large environment, I felt I needed to move on to find something I truely enjoy doing. And, due to some remarkable events I ended up becoming an SMS Administrator. It's one of the smartest moves i've ever made career-wise. It's a wonder product, and never ceases to keep me busy and interested.
My blog is here. But be warned, if your the type looking for constant technical content you'll be partly disappointed by my blog, as I switch from technical to non-technical on a regular basis.
An initial founding leader of WMUG in 2006, I like to share, learn and enjoy SMS with other like minded folk. I currently freelance as an SMS\ConfigMgr consultant in the City of London and surrounding areas.