Independent certified (by IBM) transformation consultant based near Burlington, VT. Mechanical Engineer with programming background. Masters in Marketing from Northwestern University. I don't like IT folks that thumb their noses at VBA. With the ubiquity of Microsoft Office, it's hard to find a more portable programming language that already has its user interfaces defined for you. I've built sophisticated VBA based applications for:

• automatic data-driven PowerPoint presentation builds
• enrichment of data from relational databases
• report development for database-shy user
• sharing server-based data sources for workflow applications
• merger of large data tables
• and on and on

I've been developing programs in VBA for almost 20 years and between you and me, it's one of the most fun programming languages that I've used.