Valle Dwight

Recently, the IT department at Sprint, in Mansfield, Ohio, has taken on the look of a major disaster area. Yellow police tape blocks off several cubicles and signs warn visitors to keep away. But the tape is not sealing off a crime sceneit’s just a sign that a Windows 2000 training session is in progress. […]

In a way, Don Boylan misses being a smoker. Boylan, one of 15 people on Schering-Plough Corp.’s help desk in Memphis, Tenn., used to rely on outdoor cigarette breaks to manage his help desk stress. Now that he has quit smoking, he has to make it a point to get up and walk away from […]

Linda Drumright, VP of engineering, DigitalThink, wanted a career in IT since 7th grade. When Linda Drumright was 12 years old, her father, an industrial engineer, brought home a professional development pamphlet from IBM Corp. The pamphlet sang the praises of a career in technology and made specific note of the fact that there were […]

George Schmidbauer [left] photographed at his retirement party. When George Schmidbauer retired after 35 years in information technology, he didn’t dream of long leisurely days on the golf course–he wanted to hit the road. “All the years behind a desk and with my head in a computer, I needed a different view of the world,” […]

Clark Wilson Homes Inc. The company: Clark Wilson Homes Inc. is a medium-sized construction company in Austin, Texas. The problem: With 18 builders, 75 subcontractors, and up to 240 construction projects to oversee, managers at Clark Wilson Homes found that using a paper system to track the myriad details and schedules for each project was […]

Your career: Start-up fever As high-tech start-ups explode with growth, so have the opportunities for people in those fields–from top management to junior programmers. But is everyone striking it rich? By Valle Dwight October 1999 In this article: Profile of a promising start-up employee Lessons learned Small business by the numbers Last September, Doug McCollough, […]

In this article: AT A GLANCE:Grenley-Stewart Resources Words to the Wise Lessons learned about using PDAs in the corporate environment Using a personal digital assistant on the job has produced an unexpected bonus for Christine Snodgrass, an account executive with fuel sales company Grenley-Stewart Resources. When Snodgrass used to make a sales call carrying a […]