James Bach in an interview said many interesting things, and he mentions ME as someone to watch. Read it at http://blog.utest.com/testing-the-limits-with-james-bach-part-1/2009/12/.

Those of you who have looked far enough back will know that this blog was started as a result of the best training I've ever taken to date. It was a one day seminar at CAST 2007-Self Education for Testers by James Bach. It inspired me to share my testing ideas

My name is not the only thing I read and noticed about that link, although I did of course respond with "Hooray!" Other things that made me want to stand up and cheer:

Well of course! I’ve been a hiring manager, and the idea that hiring managers are zombies who only look at paper credentials is wrong. SOME managers do that, but you don’t really want to work for someone like,do you?

For me phase 1 was just having the courage to talk about testing publicly. Now that someone I respect so much believes I have potential, phase 2 is to learn more and be better, to contribute value to the profession of software testing.