Data Professionals at Work

© Malathi Mahadevan 2018

Malathi MahadevanData Professionals at Workhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3967-4_27

27. Joseph Fleming

Senior Consultant, StraightPath Solutions

Malathi Mahadevan¹ 

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Raleigh, NC, USA

 

From the moment his fingers hit the keyboard on the TI 99/4A that his dad brought home, Joseph Fleming knew computers were destined to be a big part of his life. From typing hex-based programs out of Compute!’s Gazette magazine on a Commodore 64, to his first programs in BASIC, it was just a matter of where destiny would take him.

A brief fling with the idea of becoming an automotive engineer almost waylaid him, but a career in IT was ...