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During the 80’s, I became enthralled with computers and what they could do.
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It’s a pretty common story: a boy wants to get into the Information Technology field but has little technical experience.
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I have spent 21 years in the information technology trenches, having worked my way up through the ranks.
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When people ask me what I do for a living, I ask them how long they have to hear my explanation.
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I work for a small company that manages software for the parking lot industry. The software that we produce is accessed online and users pay a monthly fee for the service. The term for this is called Software as a Service (SaaS).
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I work as a satellite earth station engineering technician for one of the major satellite television companies in the United States. Basically, my team is responsible for the equipment that sends the signals to the satellites that, in turn, broadcast the signals down to your home satellite dish in order to provide you with quality television programming.
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I am a lucky recent college graduate who has one of the best jobs the aerospace industry.
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My job is to find the sites that wireless companies need to expand their networks.
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My first job as a help desk analyst launched my career into a variety of software developer roles.
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The best part of the job is the fast pace and variety of work.
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I need an excellent understanding of Web content management concepts.
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If you are an executive looking to get back into a more hands on position, realize that there will be many challenges for you in this transition.
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My life as a programmer changed when I was given the official title as the IT supervisor; all the responsibilites associated with middle-management.
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In my department, we standardize the computer experience so that anywhere you sit in our firm, each computer will look the same as the one you previously worked on.
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Embedded software engineers make things smarter.
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I get to see the world, a city at a time, doing things that I have always enjoyed and continue to enjoy.
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Knowing how a business operation functions is crucial to successfully enhancing or implementing a system.
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I didn’t think the industry mattered as long as the position itself sounded like a good fit. I was wrong.
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I’ve been telling people what to do and how to do it for 13 years now.
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It incorporates 3 of the things I enjoy doing most: technology, working with people and teaching.
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This job title is one of those that has been over loaded and over used. It has about as many job descriptions as there are postings.
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The EE position is the highest level technical support position given for a software development company.
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For many years now, I have been independently consulting on software projects and building applications that use complex technologies.
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Wind tunnel people are sometimes referred to as “tunnel rats,” and while this synonym may not be the most charming of all, usually wind tunnel engineers are looked at with a certain amount of respect by many.
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Google “Product Manager” and you’ll find a number of definitions of exactly what we do…and they’re all right
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Oracle is a world onto itself large enough for an individual to explore, learn, grow, and find a niche to settle into.
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You will, at least once in your IT career, be the New Guy.
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I’m a support and training specialist for a small software company.
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The mission of the Performance Architect (PerfArch) is to take the initiative in implementing applications of the highest quality.
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I work in a highly-competitive environment where I'm expected to be able to lead and guide technical staff.
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When not dodging bullets, our team provided second tier desktop support, installed network fiber optic cables, programmed routers, etc.
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I’m working with a leading semiconductor company as an embedded software engineer.
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Hiring companies provide different environments and philosophies when dealing with contractors.
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I work for a government contract company in Afghanistan as a Network Administrator.
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When IT depts. roll out something new, the benefits might be second nature to us. Our end users, however, may find the changes threatening.
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I work on the Hubble Space Telescope project for NASA.
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I worked as an engineering designer in the mechanical and architectural disciplines for years.
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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.
