What do you consider to be your main area of expertise?
I have not yet gained enough experience with PeopleSoft to have an area of expertise, but I am sure that my strengths will come through as my training develops. Being a people based person, I enjoy looking at problems from the users' perspective. I feel that the people who directly use an application are often not given the attention they deserve; yet they are critical to the effective use and functionality of a product. My experience to date includes working in a variety of organisations including legal, medical, technical and teaching. With this breadth of experience and my enjoyment of creating good user interfaces, combined with my technical background, I hope, over time to become a successful and unique front end functional consultant.

What project have you most enjoyed working on and why?
I am enjoying my first assignment, working at MCI, just outside Reading. As each day passes I am learning more about practical project management, PeopleSoft software and what it can achieve, and human resources. I am looking forward to increasing my contribution to the team when I have carried out more formal training in PeopleSoft.

What originally drew you to consulting or the computing field?
This is a tough one. I was getting no challenge from the work I was doing and always knew that the only way forward for me was to go back to education. I wanted to build on skills that I already had and decided to choose a computing module, which I enjoyed very much. It entailed learning about the principles of computing. My computing skills extended to word processing alone up until this point. It was from here that I decided to pursue computing at degree level.

Why did you join Congruent?
I have often thought that consultancy would be a good area to get into. I enjoy working on the people side of computing and was very pleased when Congruent offered me a job with training, which was just what I had been looking for. I liked the people, the company and the way it is run.

Where do you want to be in 5 years time?
In five years time I would like to be a fully fledged consultant, bringing work in for Congruent and enjoying myself.

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