Had a 45 minute Interview at U/ST, with a VP/Technology at UnitedHealthGroup (Optum div.) this morning. Very very smart gentleman – felt at ease with him and the majority of the time was able to directly answer his questions without any hemming/hawing. Only one question stumped me… I didn’t ask how many openings there were, […]
Post Unisys
U/Saint Thomas – selected to interview with UHG!
Learned tonight after getting home from class that I am lucky enough to be one of ~10 interview candidates at UHG (United healthcare group) next week Thursday, due to my being in the U/Saint Thomas Graduate Program in Software (GPS). UHG apparently went to the U/ST MBA program first, but no one (or not enough […]
Quitting USPS
Realistically speaking, I’ve really only worked at 3 places of employment since I started my career in I.T. at age 21, in 1980: Burroughs/Unisys (29 years). Wells Fargo (18 months) as a contractor, my first position after being laid off from Unisys during the “Great Recession” in 2009. and, now, at for the past 3 […]
Part 2: Year long software development project finally goes “Live”
[It’s really too bad I didn’t really do any of the design nor programming on this project – I would have tried, at least, to make it a bit less complex than it currently is]. Anyway, after working on a particular software development project at <current employer> since January, 2013, it finally went live this […]
Part 1: Year long software development project finally goes “Live” (NOT!)
In at work, at OMG, 4am, watching over the shoulder (logically, not physically) as my production support person installs my software release that I’ve been working on for past 12 months. Longest software development effort ever (for me). Not used to ‘s red tape of software development process. My effort was completed in early sept, […]
