I am a blind computer programmer from the United States. I am 37 years old. I have worked professionally for 8 years using Microsoft technologies.

I use screen reading software to program. It’s called JAWS which stands for Job Access With Speech. You can read about JAWS at http://www.freedomscientific.com and about screen readers in general at this Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader.

My programming history and progress looks like this:

Childhood (prior to losing my eyesight):

Commodore 64 BASIC

University (after losing my eyesight):

C++
Java

Professional Career:

VB 5/6
DirectX 8
Classic ASP
JavaScript
VB.NET
ASP.NET
C#.NET

Currently I work on an agile team using C#.NET, test driven development, continuous integration, NUnit, Rhino Mocks, IOC, and Visual Studio 2008 to mention a few things. For a complete up to date summary of my skill set and current work, feel free to look over my Linkedin.com profile which I always keep up to date:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jdauben

Last updated Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 8:13 AM EST.