Welcome
This section of my digital portfolio is dedicated to my various endeavours in the working world.
Most Recent Employment
Hastings Mutual Insurance Company - Summer 2006, Winter 06-07, Summer 2007 Currently I am an Information Technology Intern working in two areas; Application Development and Webpage Design. Half of my time is spent developing programs for various areas of the company, most recently Human Resources and Operations. The other half of the time I help maintain the website, the intranet, and Hastings Mutual's web based rating/underwriting system "Policy Express".
As a result of this experience I have gained a great deal of knowledge about various programming languages, scripting languages, webpage design, relational databases, and large-scale networks. Specific details about what skills I possess can be viewed on the Technology page.
Albion College HelpDesk - Fall 2006 - Ongoing
When I am at school I work in a tech support role for the students. I also am in the process of rewriting the
tech staff's website.
Past Employment
Albion College Web Staff - Fall 2006- I worked for the web development staff developing and maintaing various web pages and web site functionality.
Sears Holding Corp - July 2005 through May 2006
- I was an electronics sales associate, fun I know. Basically I sold all kind of electronics, like Plasma televisions. This job basically just paid the bills while I was as school but it did help me develop excellent communication skills.
Meijer - July 2003 through April 2004
- I worked as a cart pusher / bagger.
K Force, Inc. - Summer 2002
- My first 'real' job, I worked as an administrative assistant in an office. I handled the payroll as well as various computer-related tasks.
Corn Detassling - Summer 2001
- We all have to start somewhere...
Disclaimer
This website makes extensive use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as well as JavaScript and required a relatively modern version of Internet Explorer to display properly. If you need the latest version click here.
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This is where you can find my most recent random thought, I'll try to update as often as I can.
As of late I've rediscovered the joy of Lemmings, yes that game from way back when, and its still as fun as ever.
I believe that people are far to ignorant to this issue, so please for your own safety click this.
Told you it was random...
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April '07 - Made some minor tweaks and updated information to reflect my status for the summer/fall of 2007.
July '06 - Totally reinvented the website from the ground up using various web skills, but still working out the finer details.
Fall of '05 - This site was created under the /dp address and it had basic information, quite boring.