Capstone Project

This is my final week of working on my program's final project where we use all that we have learned to solve a real problem from a real company. My team and I have been working with a company to help them with their IT staff recruiting and retention. It's been quite the experience interviewing current employees of the company about what they like and don't like about where they work. Our goal was to sift out what makes people stay (some have been there 25+ years right out of college) and what could be improved upon to attract young college grads, such as myself.

We've done most of the hard work already, but now we're compiling it all together in a report and slide show presentation. We are presenting our findings and recommendations to the CIO, VPs, and other interested parties next Monday. I think we're on track with what they wanted and we also have solid recommendations that will help the company attract college grads. I've focused on telecommuting, flexible time off, suggestion box, streamlining decision making and creating a career path and development program.

After Monday, all I have left is one class that meets twice a week. Let the good time roll...

Awesome New Class

I just started my Network Management class here at IU. This is going to be a fun ride. Instead of the abstract, theoretical and best practices type of teaching that I've been used to, I'm going to set up a network from the ground up. We're using Cisco equipment, VMware, and Cacti (which I only glanced at while I was looking around for network-management-type software when I was working at Author House). I'm not going to learn about it...I'm going to use it and know it. It's sad that spring break is over, but this class was a great way to get back into school work. Another thing that is great about this class is that every aspect that we'll be covering, we're going to learn about the security part of it, too.