First and foremost, I am a lifelong learner. I LOVE learning anything new! My name is Nancy Riley and I am enrolled in the IT Programmer associates degree. I am an Operation's Team Lead for a Long Term Health care company located in the Milwaukee area. I have been working in the IT industry since 1978 (I graduated from high school in 1977). I have been fortunate to have worked in many areas of IT. I currently manage project assignments, organize and write the team's documentation and train and mentor new operation's analyst. I love my job and am very excited to be in this class.
I am very familiar with computers both personally and professionally. If I had to give myself a number from 1-10, it would be 7. There is always room for learning and growing no matter how old you get. I believe my children were bored by computers because when they were growing up my computer was always in thier living room from baby on. They are now 28 and 30.
For as long as I have been in the IT field, I have never been a pure programmer which is what I went to MBTI (Milwaukee Business Area Institute) for from 1983 to 1985. I started working for a very small company back in 1985 that provided turn key services to area police departments. The company I worked for sold software police departments. To begin with there was a suite of police modules used to track all records and incident management and later, working with CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch). The application was written in C and I would customize all modules to suit each police department. I would install and set up the hardware (my children would help me make adapters and my boss paid them .50 cents for each one) and software. I installed DG UNIX on data general machines. Our company was small - just I and my boss would perform data conversion on most applications each PD had been using. I would install the police application and train designated personnel. I kinda miss the old days.... Yikes.
Anyhoo... My Goal for this class: Stay current in the technology arena! I absolutely love this class. Tony is a wonderful and engaging teacher and the class is composed of very bright young students.
