I am a single woman, have three children and five grandchildren, am politically active, have been developing Java code since 1997. I`ve been involved with software development since 1982, when I was in the United States Army, which I subsequently left to focus more on my family. I have acted as system architect, team mentor, software consultant, and senior developer over the years. I currently work for TGS, a Norwegian company that specializes in the sale of oil and natural gas related data products, such as seismic data and well data. My current work is with a team developing ETL software to take proprietary well or seismic data, extract it from one data source, transform it for loading into another data source, then loading it to the target. This service speeds up the delivery of seismic and well data to customers, and frees geologists and geophysicists from spending time as data entry clerks to get the data they need to do their jobs. ©