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 Don Appleby is a Senior Systems Engineer with Mainline Information Systems with over three decades of experience in the information technology industry. He is retired from IBM, where he served in a variety of roles including systems engineer, marketing representative, software defect support specialist, contract services, ISO 9000 internal auditor, and quality assurance specialist. Don has authored several papers on system design review strategies, spoken at conferences on the subject of systems assurance methodologies, and helped design a measurement and reporting process used by IBM to analyze Solution Assurance Review trends in North, Central, and South America. He also had responsibility for storage product Solution Assurance Reviews within the U.S.
Don is a credentialed instructor in the School of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he teaches graduate courses on information engineering and management in the Master of Engineering Program.
He earned a BSIM degree (with highest honor) from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MSEE degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also completed additional graduate-level coursework in quantitative methods, modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence.
His professional training includes server, storage, database, networking, and transaction processing systems and he holds an IBM z System Technical Support Certification.
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America lacks jobs because Americans are uneducated? I read this all the time – sometimes more delicately phrased, sometimes more pointedly (as in an article I read yesterday). I’ve read this for years. Or is it decades? And I always look for the specifics. But I don’t find any.
It sounds like they’re just making excuses to me. I’m open to changing my view when I see some facts and hear a cogent argument that can withstand critical analysis. For the moment, I’m just having trouble convincing myself that there’s anything at work here beyond the cost of labor and the disinclination of industry to train workers on ANYTHING.
Furthermore, there are absurd “barriers to entry” that are keeping people from getting their first jobs. Most of the people I know who are desperately trying to get their careers started are stymied immediately by the “x years of experience” requirement. Okay, but what if they have the EDUCATIONAL credentials you say you can’t find? Might that count for something?
Now, I’ll confess that I haven’t made the researching of this my life’s focus. But I’m getting close to doing exactly that. If there’s a problem, let’s discuss it. What skills are you LOOKING for? Huh? Tell us and maybe we can do something about it.
But let’s stop pretending that the issue is skills when, in fact, the issue is cost. The issue is too important and the stakes are too high to play PR when an entire generation of young workers is standing on the sidelines wishing they could get into the game.
Originally published on ProfAppleby.com |
 You are always being watched. Think about someone being on the news after being caught on video doing something illegal, unethical, or just plain embarrassing by a fellow citizen with a video camera. How would you feel if you were being recorded and what you said and did was shown to the world?
Well, like it or not, the same type of judgments are being made about you all the time. People are watching you now and they always have been. We all form opinions of others, it's normal. We tend to form immediate judgments. A book is judged by its cover!
The classroom provides a very interesting look at this behavior. I find it interesting that people will behave unprofessionally in the classroom and expect you to think they will operate like professionals in the 'real world.'
I have seen this play out many times in undergraduate engineering courses. The character a student displays in the classroom will carry forward and follow them. Their classmates and faculty have made a judgment of them and, without some powerful change of heart, that judgment will stick. Past students often ask me to be an employer reference for them, not realizing what they're asking for.
Remember, everything you say and do brands you! If you do not want your actions, words, and images played on the news tonight, do not offer them up to be replayed and repeated in the mind of someone who observes you during the day.
Originally published on DaleCallahan.com. View the original post here. |
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