I work for a company that has offices spread out in various locations throughout North America, the team I work on is called the Woodlands Information Management Team or WIM. Our role is to be the stewards for data management throughout the company and oversee the standards and implementation of day to day applications and reports that the company needs to run and meet it's obligations. The other day i was looking through the list of outstanding tickets and I seen this one that required me to...

I work for a company called Canadian Forest Products  or Canfor for short. One of the projects I am working on is a program that will take the information about Canfor's Forest Stweardship Plans (FSP) and the related Forest Development Units (FDUs) and translate their geospatial information into GML. This export of data is required to report out to the Ministry on Canfor's silviculture activities and maintain the province wide Spatial Database on all major licensees (Forest Companies). ...

So i figure it's time to look at getting some certification now that I have a steady job and some cash rolling in. After 15 years as a developer I wouldn't mind having a piece of paper to back up my credentials. Although I've always managed to secure some emplyment without the paper I know for a fact it would have helped me in one or two candidate selection processes. So I'm looking through Microsoft Learning's site since I'm primarily a Visual Basic developer, having used jsut about ever...