My Career of Choice
My career of choice is Information Technology.
I am a Sr. Systems Programmer with a Fortune 100 company where I have been employed for over 16 years.
I began working for the company back in 1989 in an entry level position. I was a member of the Mainframe Operations department as a Peripheral Operator. My responsibilities were loading tapes into the tape drives and taking care of the several print jobs that would be produced each day. The pay was not the best in the world, and I was forced to work second shift (3PM-11PM) but I was just happy to have a job, and I really did not mind the work.
After approximately six months, I moved over as the Tape Librarian where I was responsible for maintaining all of the mainframe tapes within the library, shipping tapes to the programmers who requested them, as well as shipping tapes to offsite backup facilities. I was still on second shift, but the job change was nice.
Six months later, I moved out of the cold and noisy computer room, and over to the Help Desk, where I still remained on second shift. I was responsible for handling calls from users all throughout the world having difficulties accessing the several computer systems we had.
In 1993, I was promoted to management as a Systems Analyst where I performed second level support for the Help Desk supporing various DOS and OS/2 applications. This meant two very important things to me. The first one was getting paid a lot more money for doing something I enjoy, and it also meant NO MORE SECOND SHIFT! I was thrilled to finally be moved over to the day shift (8AM-5PM). It did take me quite a while to adjust after working those hours for over three years. We did provide 24x5 coverage on site (weekends were beeper support); however we rotated those shifts to where you only had to work 3rd shift every two years, and 2nd shift was one week out of every few months.
In 1995 I was transferred to the Systems Programming group. Here I have been responsible for creating automated installations for IBM OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, as well as developing software products for internal use.
I have written scripts and applications in the following programming languages:
I am a Sr. Systems Programmer with a Fortune 100 company where I have been employed for over 16 years.
I began working for the company back in 1989 in an entry level position. I was a member of the Mainframe Operations department as a Peripheral Operator. My responsibilities were loading tapes into the tape drives and taking care of the several print jobs that would be produced each day. The pay was not the best in the world, and I was forced to work second shift (3PM-11PM) but I was just happy to have a job, and I really did not mind the work.
After approximately six months, I moved over as the Tape Librarian where I was responsible for maintaining all of the mainframe tapes within the library, shipping tapes to the programmers who requested them, as well as shipping tapes to offsite backup facilities. I was still on second shift, but the job change was nice.
Six months later, I moved out of the cold and noisy computer room, and over to the Help Desk, where I still remained on second shift. I was responsible for handling calls from users all throughout the world having difficulties accessing the several computer systems we had.
In 1993, I was promoted to management as a Systems Analyst where I performed second level support for the Help Desk supporing various DOS and OS/2 applications. This meant two very important things to me. The first one was getting paid a lot more money for doing something I enjoy, and it also meant NO MORE SECOND SHIFT! I was thrilled to finally be moved over to the day shift (8AM-5PM). It did take me quite a while to adjust after working those hours for over three years. We did provide 24x5 coverage on site (weekends were beeper support); however we rotated those shifts to where you only had to work 3rd shift every two years, and 2nd shift was one week out of every few months.
In 1995 I was transferred to the Systems Programming group. Here I have been responsible for creating automated installations for IBM OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, as well as developing software products for internal use.
I have written scripts and applications in the following programming languages:
- REXX
- VBScript
- JavaScript
- Pascal
- C
- C++
- ASP
- Visual Basic
- Visual Basic .NET
- ASP.NET
- C#
I am still working in this position to date (10+ years) and I still enjoy it!
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