Most recently, I worked for Explorers’ Corner, creating marketing and informational material about their unique international adventures. EC offers kayaking explorations into exotic and interesting places, such as Greenland, the Galapagos, and Madagascar. I worked on the content and flavor of the website, produced the catalog two years in a row, ran a customer photo contest using Flickr, and created the newsletter.
In 2003, I finished business school, and then set out to understand how business, both not for profit and for profit enterprise, functions, as opposed to what is in the books. Business school focuses on large corporations, but I find small, growing businesses more interesting. Small businesses must survive in the shadow of large corporations, sometimes being absorbed, sometimes growing to become larger businesses on their own. Small businesses must interact with each other in order to succeed. Some organizations are just better off small.
In my previous life, I was a programmer. I wore many hats: system developer, manager, programmer/analyst, junior DBA. I was never an SA, though. Or a network engineer. My major bread and butter came from working on IT projects for options trading and risk management. Other successful stints included SAS support for clinical trials, a short project at Intel to develop a set of development tools for a proprietary graphics board, and, my favorite, working on a document storage and retrieval application for the newly introduced and, at the time, not yet commercially available storage technology called CD-ROM.
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