Unbelievably, given the budget climate, myself and another colleague, as well as the dept. lead, were allocated the funds to attend the 2009 Infocomm Conference in Orlando, Fla. June 13-19, at the Orange County Convention Center.
Two of us secured rooms at the Embassy Suites hotel (see photos) closest to the convention center , our other colleague at a nearby Embassy Suites.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
One Year On
I started in the Audio-Visual Dept. of this large University in mid-July 2008 and have experienced varying degrees of success and failure, which means I am being challenged on a daily basis. I am part of a team, all with varying degrees of expertise, and all working to keep the ~353 A-V-enabled classrooms and conference rooms up and running. This is the third group of IT professionals I've been hired into since starting at this university in November of 1985, and like the prior two groups this one is professional but easy-going, as well as being both demanding and supportive.
My strong point to begin with was not troubleshooting problems, and this was made worse by my aversion to having to walk into a classroom with a class in session, and attempt to troubleshoot a problem with the eyes of the class on me and, in some cases, the instructor doing the virtual equivalent of tapping his foot impatiently. However with time and experience my troubleshooting skills have improved, and I now enter classes with a cooler head and usually leave with much more success.
I've also begun working on a side project that takes advantage of one of my professional strengths, which is the creation, maintenance and updating of the dept.'s technical documentation. A directory on a departmental fileshare holds the documentation, and with the assistance of the dept.'s lead SSS III, we've worked up a documentation procedure that we're using to document technical procedures. If this project succeeds (and I am going to make sure that it does), this will be the third major group in this organization in which I will have played a lead role in a successful documentation effort.
My strong point to begin with was not troubleshooting problems, and this was made worse by my aversion to having to walk into a classroom with a class in session, and attempt to troubleshoot a problem with the eyes of the class on me and, in some cases, the instructor doing the virtual equivalent of tapping his foot impatiently. However with time and experience my troubleshooting skills have improved, and I now enter classes with a cooler head and usually leave with much more success.
I've also begun working on a side project that takes advantage of one of my professional strengths, which is the creation, maintenance and updating of the dept.'s technical documentation. A directory on a departmental fileshare holds the documentation, and with the assistance of the dept.'s lead SSS III, we've worked up a documentation procedure that we're using to document technical procedures. If this project succeeds (and I am going to make sure that it does), this will be the third major group in this organization in which I will have played a lead role in a successful documentation effort.
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