{"id":31,"date":"2013-03-08T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T00:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bannerfis\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:04:20","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bannerfis\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a mid-west preacher’s kid who got tired of corn fields and liked the ocean.\u00a0 I got an undergrad from the University of Illinois<\/a> in Liberal Arts and Sciences because they thought you might have a better chance at getting a job with that than a biology degree.\u00a0 Like many before and since, I found this not to be the case.\u00a0 My roommate got something like 20 offers from his pre-chem degree.\u00a0 Me? $13,000 for a job in a spice factory in Chicago.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 So I ran away to get a masters degree in Oceanography from Florida Institute of Technology where I learned that getting seasick was a real drag.\u00a0 I did get a nice tan.\u00a0 My first real job was at Horn Point Labs<\/a>.\u00a0 There I learned how to get lost on the Chesapeake and dodge the Queen Mary II.\u00a0 All this while dragging around an IMB XT pc ship to ship. After 4 years I decided to head west.\u00a0 So I packed up everything I owned and drove with my dog across the U.S. to my new job working as a marine tech for the R\/V Wecoma which was operated by OSU<\/a>.\u00a0 I sailed around the Pacific for 10 years working with scientist from around the world.\u00a0 I quickly learned that you never get something for nothing.\u00a0 When they hand that phD to a person in one hand they take away common sense in another.\u00a0 Luckily I made friends with an old bosun who did his best to keep me out of harms way at sea.\u00a0 Plus I did meet a lady that changed my life.<\/p>\n

Water, water, it all looks the same. \u00a0\u00a0 Hawaii or Newport, what’s the difference. I left the sea for a variety of reasons the biggest being I now had a family.\u00a0 Change of career time.\u00a0 I got a job at WOU<\/a> as a new programmer\/Analyst for their Banner system.\u00a0 Learned a lot, drove a lot, and after 10 years I decided I had enough of dodging debris on Hwy 99W, Hwy 22, and I5.\u00a0 So I took a job at PCC<\/a> doing the same thing and I only had to avoid debris for 7 miles instead of 50.\u00a0 Plus I got into a great fantasy baseball league.\u00a0 Four years later we moved and I was looking at another long commute or living apart from my spouse during the week.\u00a0 15 years at sea and I’m not going to start that again.\u00a0 So here I am, back at OSU working with a great gang of folks and doing the FIS programming for OUS.\u00a0 I’m just at a desk this time and my pencil doesn’t roll around with the swells.<\/p>\n

However, I’m still rolling around.\u00a0 The TRUs moved their Banner instances to the cloud along with their Banner support so no more money in USSE fr yours truly.\u00a0 I took a job down the street over at the Office of the Registrar which is run by a lady I worked with up at PCC.\u00a0 Small world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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