I'm a Web application developer for a company that integrates marketing with databases. My main baby is Growers & Nomads, a DIY home improvement website. I was hired in late April to replace someone who had been let go after his three-month probation ended, and had to start from scratch as he'd gotten nothing usable done. They didn't change the project timeline at all - I only had six weeks to do it. I managed to get everything done somehow. (There's also a back end content management system that drives everything you see on that site - I programmed that from scratch during the same six week period.)
There are constant ongoing changes, of course - for instance, Monday I'll likely be deploying a change to the search process to return information on local service providers rather than the national brands, based on the user's zip code, if they're registered/logged in.
I've also worked on some internal data entry systems for some major clients, including Nestle and American Express.
Before joining my current employer, I worked at another web development company, where I worked extensively on:
And prior to that, I had 12 years of experience as a mainframe programmer and systems analyst in the financial and retail industries. I used to support a system that paid out entitlements (interest payments, maturities of financial instruments). It was not fun when the pager went off at 3 am because a $6 billion Canada Savings Bond maturity payment was out of balance by 39 cents, I can tell you. Fortunately that only happened a couple of times a year.
I thought that was what we were here for.
There are constant ongoing changes, of course - for instance, Monday I'll likely be deploying a change to the search process to return information on local service providers rather than the national brands, based on the user's zip code, if they're registered/logged in.
I've also worked on some internal data entry systems for some major clients, including Nestle and American Express.
Before joining my current employer, I worked at another web development company, where I worked extensively on:
- Apply To Education, an employment site for teachers
- Casting Americans, a talent/modeling agency website
- York Vein and Laser Clinic's site
And prior to that, I had 12 years of experience as a mainframe programmer and systems analyst in the financial and retail industries. I used to support a system that paid out entitlements (interest payments, maturities of financial instruments). It was not fun when the pager went off at 3 am because a $6 billion Canada Savings Bond maturity payment was out of balance by 39 cents, I can tell you. Fortunately that only happened a couple of times a year.
I'm the manager of the meat department in a chain supermarket. My duties include listening to employees bitch, listen to customers bitch, and listening to upper-management bitch.
No one has to listen to me bitch.
I thought that was what we were here for.
