Kurt reveals some Dirt
Kurt finally fessed up and told us a little about himself. Thanks Kurt! He also does a little nudging for us to tell about our first job out of school. I already did one post on this and how I worked for MCI Systemhouse out of school, but I didn't tell you about the project. I started with SHL (another name for Systemhouse, now owned by EDS) on August 4th, 1997. I had a two week project in Fort Collins (75 miles north of Denver) creating a Microsoft Access client to talk to an Oracle backend for Larimer County. I didn't mind the commute and the long hours, but the project was certainly stressfull for it being my first. I was working with one other guy from SHL who didn't know squat and was later canned. After that project, I started on a Y2K inventory and assessment at StorageTek. While this project was a little more fun, and the people were great, SHL had a ridiculous methodology for doing Y2K assessments. So we ended up re-writing most of their methodology and used it pretty successfully. It was a cool project because I was doing presentations to all the head honchos at StorageTek and I felt like I was rubbing shoulders with the elite crowd. I met Julie at MCI new-hire training in January 1998, and doubled my salary in March 1998 by becoming a contractor with IBM. The rest of the story can be found in how I started Raible Designs.