Last week on Tuesday, I posted something about two friends, true friendship, procrastination and “taking action”. The action I took last week, produced no (immediate) results. Just learned a few hours ago that I was mistakenly given a wrong email addr. and the 3rd party is still looking forward to receiving from me. So, having […]
Career
Friendship and support
Amazing what wonderful friendships can do. Friend #1 (TK) provided me with awesome info to help in a certain regard. Action needed to be taken to use the provided info, but my arch enemy PROCRASTINATION reared its UGLY (and FAT) head. Two weeks go by…tick tock, tick tock. Friend #2 (JK) provides written/verbal support as […]
Unisys Plant 8 (Defense Building) torn down
Twice now in the past couple of weeks, I’ve been in the Eagan area, driving either on Pilot Knob or Yankee Doodle, and been caught unawares by a huge empty space/field, where the Unisys Defense (“Paramax/Lockheed Martin”) building stood for 30 or more years. Even though I worked in the Unisys MACS building “right next […]
UHG interview (via U/Saint Thomas)
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, […]
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, […]