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The IT manager was moving up the ladder, leaving a sizable vacuum behind and, as the most senior IT, I was the logical successor.
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I work for a full-service creative firm that focuses on exterior/interior sign installation, graphic design, logo development, tradeshow displays, and last but not least, web design and interactive media.
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I’m a Mainframe software developer, and I work on contract with a Health Care Claims system written in COBOL and Assembler. I haven’t seen my colleagues in over a year. I work from home.
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My official title is "IT Operations Analyst," but my actual title is closer to "IT Generalist" than anything else.
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I am a Data warehouse consultant. When I mention it to some people, they think I work in a warehouse and sometimes are curious to know how big it is.
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I work for a University. Yes, there are more people at a university than just the faculty and students. I’m a Network Analyst, I watch over the physical plant that our network occupies, from the main computer rooms to the smallest network closet, and everything in between.
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When I began developing solutions in Microsoft Access I finally found a career that was an adult equivalent to my childhood passion.
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My first training job was coincidental: I was an IT project manager, and I went to a client to teach them how to operate our software. Five years later, that remains the most interesting trip I’ve ever taken.
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As a child, playing “monkey in the middle” was always fun. Kids on either side kept me hopping, trying to catch that ball. Today, as a business intelligence architect at a busy telecommunications company, I find myself playing the same game.
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I’ve worked for my current employer for the last four years, two of which were spent as their systems administrator. The company develops software for the dental industry and at its peak, employed about 65 different people in their local office. But don’t be fooled by the relatively small number of users; a company this size can still keep its one-man IT staff on its toes.
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I often say that QA is where the rubber meets the road, because the QA tester is often the first person to try and install and use the application.
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“Help!” – This is one of the more common subject lines on the many emails I receive from my customers.
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I have seen many ads for a VP of Software and Technology. What does this mean? Well to be honest, it means whatever the company wants it to mean.
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The shortest description for EA is "a process that aligns IT investment with business strategies". I know it sounds a bit ambiguous, so I'll elaborate further.
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My position requires interacting with people, working with new technologies, creating documents and programs, working with both hardware and software and finding new and creative ways to break the software and hardware. While doing my job I can sit back and watch my automated scripts do all the work a manual tester has to do.
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Web Developers have the most exciting and challenging job in the world. As a web developer, you are one of the architects of the World Wide Web—a builder of the Internet that runs the modern world.
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As a software developer in the Automotive Lending industry, I am part of a development team that produces my company’s core product. Each position in a company is important, but in this case, developers are truly the backbone of the organization because without the developers there would be no product.
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The job title is a bit of an anachronism, dating back to the early days of the Internet when pages were mostly text, Flash was a superhero, and people looked for webs in dusty corners more often than on their computers – if they had computers.
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Imagine an organization where no good deed goes without a “thank you”.
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The work is very interesting and challenging, as we are constantly developing, testing, and implementing new algorithms for making our programs more efficient.
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To do this job, you have to be humble and arrogant all at the same time. You have to accept that, on your team, there's going to be a better Perl coder, a better UNIX guy, an amazing router guy...
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After the brilliant program is written or the product is ready for launch, some geek has to jump into the trenches and translate all the technical jargon into words that laypeople can understand — that’s me.
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The project manager must be: a diplomat, a psychologist, a merchant, an engineer, a leader, and a scapegoat.
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Want to know what being the Director is really like? Yes there are many perks and privileges, but with each one there is also a challenge.
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A Management Report Writer must learn the dos and don’ts of the business culture because we depend upon a non technical client for our requirements.
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I am part time Network Administrator, part time Help Desk, part time A+ Certified Tech/Installer, part time software guru, part time psychiatrist, and all around popular dude, only because everybody needs me at one time or another.
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What does a computer ”Techie” do? We put computers in the offices, connect them to networks and network services, load up the programs (install applications), configure, install, and support hardware and software, and …when things go wrong, troubleshoot to a solution.
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The life of a Quality Assurance analyst is an odd one. For a company that makes software, the QA process is one of the most important.
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It has always been a myth that QA is not a career path but a day-job for those studying for higher IT positions such as developer, DBA, etc.
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Financial Services IT depends heavily on software project management training, skills and experience.
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Technical communication is one of the most mysterious technical fields you can venture into.
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There are many subsets of Electrical Engineering and many specialties within those subsets. The term “Hardware Design” encompasses various different areas - digital and analog on silicon, FPGA logic, imaging, RF and microwave, control systems, audio, telecommunications, optics, chemistry, and power to name but a few – even these can be broken down into many more subsets and areas of expertise.
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Thinking about making a move into financial services? Here’s an overview of what to expect as a trading systems programmer.
