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I started out in Information Technology in 1980 as a Fortran programmer. I worked in several industries including pharmaceuticals, banking, finance and brokerage. I saw the beginning of the mid-range computers like the VAX from Digital Equipment Corporation and I saw their decline as microcomputers came along and they became the servers and desktops we see today. I have seen an incredible evolution of software and I remember how IBM introduced OS/2. They tried to maintain a proprietary architecture but then along came Microsoft and the rest is history. I’ve worked as a software development consultant for most of the nineties and up until now.

In 2002 I became a Microsoft Certified Trainer and that was when I learned about the value of IT certification. I had an incredible stretch of success where I obtained a string of certifications in a very short time frame. I developed a process which I now call my “Secrets of Certification Success”. I did not begin working on the idea of turning “Secrets of Certification Success” into a book until 2005. My first attempt at writing this book and trying to market it was not very successful but I came back to it in January of 2011. About a year before that I purchased the DVD, “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne and I was introduced to the “Law of Attraction”. Sometimes this book is pooh-poohed as a bunch of new wave hocus pocus but one person in the video started me thinking about dreaming big and making that dream a reality. That gentleman’s name is Bob Proctor. His famous phrase is “Tell me what you want and I’ll show you how to get it”. He also became the starting point of many serendipitous connections.

Bob introduced me to two gentleman named Jeff Vacek and Ken Preuss at www.inforenegades.com. They helped me put together my website at www.mytekmentor.com. They also showed me how to find something that I was good at, how to create a product and how to monetize it. That “something that I was good at” was my IT certification success and they inspired me to come back to and finish “Secrets of Certification Success”.

I had my website up and running by April of 2011 but I felt like I was “All dressed up with no place to go”. I was only getting a trickle of traffic to my website and no sales. It was then that the “connections” continued and again Bob Proctor introduced me to someone who helped me further along. That person is Vic Johnson. Vic sent me a video about a “great way to make money on the Internet”. Write an eBook!!!

My first reaction to this was Duh! This is no great revelation but then he told about how he published his book on Amazon.com and it rose to the top ten in its category. Bam! Here was something I had never thought of. I wasn’t sure that I could get my book into electronic format and then I came across my next great connection in Bo Bennett at eBookIt.com. He took my book and within 7 days I was published on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com and books.google.com.

My wife Mary has always stood by me through all my hair-brained ideas over the years and I’m grateful to God and His Son for having met her. We have three beautiful children in James, Caitlin and Michael. My success to this point and any future success only have meaning because of the family and friends I can share it with.

Finally I want to thank my parents, Bridget and James Dwyer and my brothers Larry, Thomas and Steven. We lived in College Point, Queens in New York City. Every part of my life has been blessed and they were start of it. Thank you.

For you the reader I thank you for buying my book. My hope is that it will bring some of the happiness and good fortune you are seeking.

Paul Dwyer