Work Experiences
They say experience is what you get, when you didn't get what you wanted. I'm not completely sure about that... but work experiences make us who we are (or influence it). This is too brutally honest to be in any Résumé, it's more a Dilbert-esque look at the working world, not to malign the companies I worked at (which were far from the worst places), but more to remind others or myself of what experiences and lessons I got, when I didn't always get what I wanted.
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I had to get my first Security Clearance, and was quite amused at the process. Mostly it was as exciting as filling out an IRS audit: a lot of DoD (Department of Defense) forms, and knowing they were going to do an investigation on the veracity of those answers.
I figured I was going to have problems; my real-father was from Iran, I had multiple names, and had been an experimental kid (when it came to sex, drugs and rock and roll -- some dumb experience in life wasn't going to slip by me untried).The bonus was this project had been ongoing for a while, and was a project where two other members of me team, HATED each other and were ready to battle to the death, and take the whole project down with them... and they were both 20+ years my senior and weren't exactly hot on a kid who still had acne, telling them what to do. I guess management figured if I hadn't failed at code, at least I could fail at people management.
My solution was simple (and the immature one), they could both do nothing, and I'd do all 3 of our jobs. They didn't have to talk to each other, they just submitted whatever they wanted to me, I'd ignore it, and write something else to make it all work, and they got credit for the code, while I got credit for getting them to work together.75 Columbia Way • Aliso Viejo, California 92656
I was kind of considered an expert in Medical Device Interfaces, and I was shifting more to Mac Development, so a company called Zettler (American division) had created a Nurse Call system (Sentinal): for managing Hospital administration and nursing staff to allow patients to call for nurses and track their responses. They had a Mac based system that was having problems, and I came in and fixed their UI and programming problems, went on site to many Hospitals and worked with their staff to figure out issues. I was able to extricate the company from lawsuits, hire Engineering and Quality Assurance teams, and turned the product from legal disaster to cash cow.
I had wanted to do Mac Application Development, so I went to a small startup called WTi (Workstation Technologies, Inc). The job was creating a QuickTime VDIG and a dithering algorithm for teleconferencing, and QT-VCR a commercial application used for recording and playback of streams. Hardware acquired by Nortel. Software licensed by eMachines / SuperMAC / UMAX