 My name is Mary Pitson. I am an application developer. When I'm not developing file maker solutions, I love to be outside and read and meet people and listen to their stories. A year ago I had no idea what I really wanted to do. It just kind of dawned on me that I should take advantage of my technical aptitude and start teaching myself how to code. My friend mentioned file maker to me. I downloaded a trial. I had a goal in mind to build a file maker system to track my budget. Once I did more development, I didn't really stop. Then I found a job at DP Services. In just six months, I went from being a project coordinator focusing mostly on licensing to being a certified file maker developer and managing my own clients and projects. It is really exciting to me that I was able to master file maker in such a short amount of time. I fell in love with file maker because it had a great interface. It allowed me to be creative. What you see is what you get like a drag and drop thing. It allows you to automate redundant tasks, saving everyone time. File maker really has changed my life. File maker gave me a path to a well-paying tech job that I would have never gotten with anything else because I didn't have a computer science background. I was just speaking with my mom and my sister and they had said to me, can you believe where you are right now? Could you even imagine a year ago that you would be here, that you would have this great job and great car and it's just given me so much.