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My family is leaving for a 14 night cruise to the Southern Caribbean on the Enchantment of the Seas in just a few hours. I thought I’d better write something, before the cruise and the craziness that Christmas brings about, the parties, the food, our families and friends. While we love all of that, we…

I am now working for a major bank. This bank doesn’t have any branches, and does a majority of their products and services online. The projects I am managing are very data-driven, and many of them pertain to online marketing campaigns (which makes sense, since the Chief Operating Officer reports to the Chief Marketing Officer…

I love this time of year. I mean love it. Autumn in all its glory, jeans, sweatshirts, sweaters, boots, leaves, changing colors, scarecrows, corn mazes, pumpkins, campfires, roasting marshmallows. Oh and I love camping! This is also my favorite time of year for camping. There is just something about being in the wilderness and sitting…

I’m now working for a company that provides geographic information systems data and makes maps used by a lot of technical devices for navigation. This technology is highly data intensive. My backend (database) skills are definitely being used in this environment. With each new job position, where I am brought on as a project or…

Did I tell you that my new position is 65 miles away from my home? Yes, it is. Week one it was ok. Week two, I’m a little tired. By week three, I’m dreaming of buying a helicopter. Is that weird? Maybe, but I gotta do something about this commute. Anyway, after reading all the…

For the past eight years I have worked at my local hospital. I have really enjoyed this position and it gave me great stability. I worked at the hospital from June 2001 to May 2010. I worked mostly in Radiology and during that time our projects were very long, following Waterfall, and consisted mostly of…

I think we’ve definitely sold our company as a whole on Agile and Scrum. We’ve been tracking the metrics of our projects, including the number of releases accepted by the client, the number of test cases executed/passed/failed, the number of defects that our team finds prior to release versus the number of defects found post-release,…

We’re doing some interesting projects for a number of telecom companies. Basically, the company I work for specializes in Video On Demand technology. If you’ve ever turned your cable box on and saw the nice navigable menus, my current company designs that interface. I convinced the Director of our group that we should be using…

Well, I’m now working for a company in the telecom industry. I do have to say that I learned a lot from my previous boss at my old company. I’ve got some great templates, I’m now very experienced in doing assessments (and I can easily modify the assessment approach towards any type of assessment), and…

I’ve worked at this compensation consulting company for the past two years. Our projects are typically assessments – we do some pre-assessment planning and send documentation to the client to fill out, then travel to the client site and stay there for two or three days while we interview everyone from the CEO to the…