Throughout my career I've had the pleasure of tackling IT Problems from both an operational and development point of view, this in turn has given me a rare view in to how both 'camps' work and more importantly how they often fail to work together.My love of IT stems from a single secondary school maths lesson, where my then teacher decided he couldn't teach me maths instead though he taught me to write my first basic program.It was a simple program to generate shapes on a screen.That was it I was hooked.Like many people in IT I have grown over the years maturing from a Junior IT Monkey through to a fully fledged and well rounded IT Professional.My main aim on a daily basis is to write awesome software (or systems) which satisfies everyone it touches, it should satisfy the end user, satisfy the business and perhaps most importantly it should satisfy those who work on it or manage it in day to day life. It is not an easily achievable goal however it does provide massive scope for learning from and collaborating with other people whether they are IT Professionals, End users or anyone in between.