On the off chance that someone I know but haven’t talked to in a while should find me on the web via this page I thought it would be nice to give a short overview of my recent history. Read on…
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\nAbout ten years ago I came to Cleveland from the bowels of Pennsylvania, or ‘Pennsyltucky’ as I fondly recall it. My goal was to get a degree from CWRU, but alas, that was not to be. CWRU is a cruel mistress and having run out of funds during my second year she threw me out like so much tissue paper.<\/p>\n
Not to be deterred I took up residence at CSU (Cleveland State) for a few years until, already financially drained from CWRU, I really, really<\/strong> ran out of money. At which point I had little choice to but to enter the grind.<\/p>\n The first few years of that really sucked. I did computer support crap (not help desk, thank god), but still – I wasn’t a big fan. Then I ditched that to go join a startup company. That was also not a fun job, but I got quite a bit of experience with programming. My job title there was actually CIO, at least it was shortly before we shut down. My paper fortunes went up in a puff of optimism.<\/p>\n After a two month enforced vacation (actually I did have fun, went to visit a good friend in LA) I landed my current job at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. There I do what is called system integration, which is basically programming. That includes a fair amount of web work as well as connecting many of the clinical systems to one another and moving some 4 million medical records around every day.<\/p>\n Programming isn’t what I’ll do forever. I’ve got some secret plans, but in the mean time it’s a good field to use your brain, some creativity and the pay doesn’t suck. Oh, and the degree? That’s getting there too, slowly but surely. I’m in no hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the off chance that someone I know but haven’t talked to in a while should find me on the web via this page I thought it would be nice to give a short overview of my recent history. Read on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}