The Information Technology Career by MR Thomas S Ireland
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The Information Technology Career

The Information Technology Career


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I got into Information Technology by happy accident. Through a love of science fiction I decided to become an astronomer. Radio astronomy was the growing field at the time so I got a degree in electronics engineering. Through that convoluted set of circumstances called life I ended up in IT. Little did I know when I started that I was really entering a career that would enable science fiction to become science fact. In my career I have gone from the mechanical typewriter and human stenographer to voice dictation via a smart phone. My car full of large paper maps has transitioned to a GPS-based navigation system. The room-sized computer programmed with punch cards has been replaced with a hand-held device with orders of magnitude more power and apps that can be instantly downloaded for free or next to free. It has been a thrilling ride! However, I know that the ride will just get better for those climbing on board today. My wish for you is that you will enjoy it as much as I have. But more than that, I also hope that you will be nurtured by a new breed of technology leaders who will guide you down a tactical path to strategic targets filled with new capabilities that will excite you and bring a better world to everyone!
About the Author: Tom received his BS in Electronics Engineering and a minor in mathematics from Oklahoma State University. While there, he published his first paper in "The Oklahoma State Engineer". That paper won first place in a Big Eight Universities competition. Tom accepted a commission in the United States Air Force. While an Air Force Officer, and later as a Department of Defense civilian, he managed technology program management teams responsible for communications and electronics installations in the Middle East, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and other military installations in the Ohio region. His Plans and Programs duties included disaster preparedness; survival, recovery, reconstitution and war planning. After leaving the Air Force, Tom went to work for a technology division of the Mead Corporation responsible for designing and operating their networks in support of what was at that time the world's largest on-line, full-text search and retrieval data base. He eventually moved to Mead Corporate Staff where he successfully integrated their network operations and directed the modernization of the corporation's client computing services systems. He participated in a Vision Team which successfully established a long term IT Vision for the corporation. Tom later went to work for CompuServe/UUNet. Over three years he integrated the operations of their Class A web hosting data centers while the operation was expanding from three to twenty data centers across North America. Most recently, Tom contributed his experience to his local community as the Chief Technology Officer for a team supporting several cities in southwestern Ohio. In this role he provided technology support to the regional Tactical Crime Suppression Unit and the Organized Crime Task Force. He has been featured in a cover article in "Wireless for the Corporate User", and has been published in "Telecommunications Magazine" and "Community Media Review". He is co-author of an AT&T Labs paper presented in Munich, served as the Bell Labs liaison for the Mead Corporation and has been personally highlighted in an AT&T annual report as an example of collaborative customer innovation. Tom is married with four children and a growing number of grandchildren. These days he is indulging a life-long desire to share his experiences by writing on a number of subjects reflecting his broad range of interests.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781500412142
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Depth: 6
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1500412147
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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