My Final Presentation for Masters Degree!

1. A Reflection on my time as a Grad Student By Larry Jennings

2. People Said “Do you know what your getting into?” “Do you really want to go back to school?” “You just started this job, are you sure this is a good idea? “Don’t you have enough going on with 2 little kids?” “Does he know what he’s getting himself into?” (I didn’t…. But I had a good idea) And you know what…..

3. I did it! It was NOT easy…but…

4. So.. How did we pull off this miracle? Set aside time blocks at night and weekends The kids have to sleep sometime… … sometime …. eventually? ..please Lots of support Wife Parents Friends & Family And 1 final thing… lots and lots of this…..

6. Learning Its not like it used to be.

8. Topics covered:

9. Google.. All of it I think.

10. Social Media, Blogging, Podcasting, Folksonomy..

11. And that was before the presentations.

12. 3 X 30 min presentations.

13. Nothing covered in books

14. Social Media

15. Set the tone for my semester and beyond.

16. Prog Lang for the Web I

17. Topics Covered:

18. HTML

19. CSS

20. Javascript

21. ASP

22. Final Project bringing it all together

23. Working webpage with grading system.

25. Lessons Learned This is no longer instructor led school Lots of outside reading and researching that’s not in our text books. Time Management Learning the balance between work time and homework time. Learning that the faculty are only semi aware of this (just kidding) The Train is a great place to get reading done. An aircard does wonders for homework also. Family Management Even during a crisis, you cannot lose sight of your goals and dreams and need to work through them no matter what.

26. Relaxing for the Summer (mostly)

27. How I spent my Summer Vacation Reading books that I had came across researching projects. Crowdsourcing Crush It Outliers What Would Google Do? Wikinomics Blink Social Dev Camp Thinking about my Portfolio

28. Third Semester Ethics How to analyze Ethical situations Utilitarian Deontological Virtue Apply to different situations Google in China Internet Privacy Internet Piracy Government Surveillance (scary) Midterm Group Presentation Project Management More group work Related to current occupation. Work Breakdown Structures Lots of Diagramming Certifiable at Completion CAPM that is! 1st step to PMP Software MS Project Basecamp Visio (All better then Visual Analyst)

29. Getting too comfortable Time for a reality check.

30. Fourth (and Final) Semester Advanced Database 1st Database work in 10 years My SQL & Workbench Some Oracle Some C++ (BACI) Group work Triggers Stored Procedures Data Warehousing Hardest Test of MACS Program!! Seriously.. What is this writing stuff?  Software Engineering Brought all other classes together. Designing a website Choice of Bookstore or Carpool site Chose Carpool – More Challenging Project Management Team of 13 People Great team different perspectives Project Completed Nothing like the last minute!

31. Lessons Learned I like to be in charge Balancing a team is hard – but achievable Having my hands in too many things was not helpful to project. Both technical classes at same time was daunting – but helped. You can take knowledge from 1 area of life and apply it to another. Planning can go a long way. You can still get Senioritis at 35 Easier to fight then at 21 though

32. Showing Off What I have been working on

33. ePortfolio

34. Being Appreciative I could not have done this alone

35. Thanks! Faculty Dr. Fricker Dr. Mehta Dr. Aman Dr. Appel Chris Harr Fellow Students Andrew Boyce Asha Robert S. Anju Kobe Olympio

36. Graduating! Can I uninstall all of this software now?