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    <title>Jobster: Answers by Andrew Leer</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:41:43 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Most recently updated answers by Andrew Leer</description>
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      <title>Andrew, How would you describe what you did at Berks Career and Technology Center?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/324913?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>Berks Career and Technology Center is where I got my start in useful computing.  I first learned the basics of office computing: Typing, MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access), Windows, Basic Windows Networking, HTML, CSS, and DBase. 

Soon it became apparent to me that I wished to become a computer programmer.  Soon I switched to the computer programming shop and learned C++, and Visual Basic before graduating in 1999.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:41:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Andrew, How would you describe what you did at Ralad Architects?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/222636?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>Supervisor: Aaron Pavely

- Developed website using PHP, and MySql for displaying the company's portfolio of clients.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:15:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Andrew, How would you describe what you did at GPU Energy?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/222630?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>Supervisor: Donald Kujawski - (717)-738-0046

- Learned an employee's morning tasks.

- Automated an employee's morning tasks using a combination of Perl, wget, Excel and Visual Basic for Applications.

- Created a system for graphing power outages read from a database in Visual Basic and Java.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:13:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Andrew, How would you describe what you did at Pennslyvania College of Technology?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/222624?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>Supervisor: Jennifer Hammond - jhammond@pct.edu

- Tutored in various computer programming classes and languages.

- Tutored "traditional" as well as "non-traditional" students.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:10:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Andrew, How would you describe what you did at Mobilvox?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/222621?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>Supervisor: Todd Orange - torange@mobilvox.com

- Performed software development in primarily Java, Javascript, and CSS.

- Developed AJAX enabled object-oriented Javascript components, including a suggest-box and a map component.

- Contributed to ArcObjects GIS Server map generating back-end.

- Developed web applications and components using the Struts and Tiles Frameworks.

- Developed Portlets for use in a web portal.

- Designed and documented software before writing code.

- Managed JAR files and sourcecode using Maven2 and CVS.

- Lead and participated in design reviews.

- Developed, documented and implemented testing plans.

- Maintained the Mobilvox website using Adobe GoLive.

- Created and maintained the Mobilvox company portal.

- Performed research in selecting a Java Speech-To-Text/Text-To-Speech API.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:06:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Andrew, How would you describe what you did at Concurrent Technologies?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/222616?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>Supervisor: (Confidential)

- Performed web development in Java MVC frameworks Struts and Spring MVC.

- Developed J2EE Applications using the Appfuse Open Source development tool.

- Unit tested J2EE Applications with JUnit.

- Setup and maintained a Zope ZiddlyWiki for maintaining code consistency on the development team.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:01:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/222616?answer_class=AnswerBase</guid>
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      <title>Andrew, Who was your most influential mentor and what did they teach you?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/324937?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>"Don't side with Java or .Net, when you do that you become a bad programmer."
- Tony Pope, Mobilvox

Tony taught me not to specialize in a programming language, but rather to learn as much as I can, and to apply whatever concepts I can in other languages where the syntax allows it.  These are also known as Design Patterns to most programmers.  

That being said, I would really like to get some .Net or C# experience just to balence myself out.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:14:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Andrew, What's your ideal work environment?</title>
      <link>http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/324934?answer_class=AnswerBase</link>
      <description>My Ideal work environment would be as part of a small team of competent, dynamic, software engineers, who are open to trying new frameworks, build tools, languages, testing and, agile methods of development.  The team would collaborate using a number of wikis and also a version control system which supports branching/merging and atomic commits (subversion). 
    The team would have an almost flat structure but there would still be one person in charge that gave definite yes and no answers about what the team will and won't use on the project; The person in charge would define development standards, and be a wise leader in his choices. 
    The team would design their projects/screen/classes before implementing them. 
    The team would use the branching/merging features of version control to minimize their side-effects on each others code. 
    Together the team would dynamically learn new technologies by placing everything that we had learned about a technology into a separate technology wiki where it could be shared and quickly referenced by the entire team, and also for subsequent upcoming projects.  
    Each developer would also use a proj-wiki to keep a personal journal of features added to the program, the bugs that they've fixed, and corresponding version control revision numbers for each.  All of the people on the team would use the wikis regularly.  In this way all of us could gain the skills we need for the future.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:59:07 GMT</pubDate>
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