14 Years!!!

Today marks my 14th anniversary with FarPoint Technologies. For someone who knew relatively nothing about developing computer software, FarPoint gave me a chance to learn and share with others their terrific Spread products. And I thank them for this opportunity.

I was working for a Midwest computer company providing hardware support (and customer service) when the phone rang that September 1994 day. I answered the phone which had the very irate President of FarPoint on the other end. I was use to these kind of calls because of the lack of good QA at the company I was at. I quickly and efficiently (IMHO) calmed the customer and told him how I will make sure the situation would be rectified. (I decided to do what a Floor Manager would have done because they were busy and I knew it was the right thing to do). The customer (President of FarPoint) quieted down quickly and then said "Anybody who can listen to me the way you just did and give me the support you just did I want working for me". That is when I saw the 919 area code and said
I am from North Carolina and would love to move back". He said whenever you want to come back to NC, you will have a job". I was down in just a couple of months and been on this exciting ride ever since.

One of the great benefits of working for FarPoint is the family atmosphere and how everyone works as a team to better everyone. I quickly learned the FarPoint product and the development environment that most customers I would be working with would be using thanks to this fact. I am now the moderator on our forums, answering support/sales/presales phone calls, exhibiting at trade shows, and speaking about our product as much as possible. I get to meet many people and share what FarPoint is doing and how we can help them succeed in their development.

I am looking forward to many more years working with everyone and hope to take this one step further to evangelize our customers to want to share their FarPoint experience with others. We have many things we are working on this year at FarPoint and can't wait to share them with you. Happy New Year everyone.

Scott Shorter
Technical Evangelist