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  • I icewolf_snowfire

    Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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    MidwestLimey
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    "Wielding my deistic powers of development, I keep this company profitable through my sheaer genius, despite working with the human detritus laughingly known as my colleages" Something along those lines?

    Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore

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      "Wielding my deistic powers of development, I keep this company profitable through my sheaer genius, despite working with the human detritus laughingly known as my colleages" Something along those lines?

      Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore

      modified on Friday, September 12, 2008 3:31 PM

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      I would love to, but it's just noon here, I don't think she's drunk enough to let that pass.

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      • I icewolf_snowfire

        Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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        Have a look in the Buzzword forum. There's lots of gems from there that you should include. Make sure you use synergy, value added, customer centered for example. A few of those and you should do fine. :)

        Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]

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        • I icewolf_snowfire

          I would love to, but it's just noon here, I don't think she's drunk enough to let that pass.

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          Rob Graham
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          The description in your original post should be just about right for handing to the marketing person for polishing.

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          • I icewolf_snowfire

            Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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            icewolf_snowfire wrote:

            I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words)

            I take it that that excludes such valuable words as epitome, euphoric or assiduous then? :sigh: Regards, --Perspx

            Don't trust a computer you can't throw out a window

            -- Steve Wozniak

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            • I icewolf_snowfire

              Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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              icewolf_snowfire wrote:

              I’m also starting to do SharePoint development...

              I'm sorry to hear that. I have also had to do some sp development. It makes me want to pull my hair out. It is worse that classic ASP. How about "I am the OverLord of web development at for the company".

              I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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              • I icewolf_snowfire

                Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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                A Wong
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                How about: "I am a translator. I translate one humanly un-comprehensible language, marketing speak, to another humanly un-readable language, .net code."

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                • I icewolf_snowfire

                  I would love to, but it's just noon here, I don't think she's drunk enough to let that pass.

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                  Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                  icewolf_snowfire wrote:

                  I don't think she's drunk enough

                  Isn't it already Friday afternoon now? :-D Ike seems to be closer in our neighborhood towards the weekend: http://weatherblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/ike-makes-an-appearance.html[^]

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                  • I icewolf_snowfire

                    Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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                    Dave Sexton
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                    How about "I'm a bit shifter biatch"? Too subtle?

                    But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
                    Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
                    I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen

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                      icewolf_snowfire wrote:

                      I’m also starting to do SharePoint development...

                      I'm sorry to hear that. I have also had to do some sp development. It makes me want to pull my hair out. It is worse that classic ASP. How about "I am the OverLord of web development at for the company".

                      I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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                      icewolf_snowfire
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                      I've thought about a title change to Web Goddess, but I wouldn't want to get a swelled head, and I'd hate to have to listen to the worshippers whine.

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                      • T ToddHileHoffer

                        icewolf_snowfire wrote:

                        I’m also starting to do SharePoint development...

                        I'm sorry to hear that. I have also had to do some sp development. It makes me want to pull my hair out. It is worse that classic ASP. How about "I am the OverLord of web development at for the company".

                        I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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                        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                        ToddHileHoffer wrote:

                        It makes me want to pull my hair out. It is worse that classic ASP.

                        Might be sp is a befitting sibling of asp. :-D

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                        All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare

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                        • I icewolf_snowfire

                          Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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                          "I protect the common heard from the complexity of what they don't realise they want to do".

                          Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                          • I icewolf_snowfire

                            Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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                            Cool name BTW :cool:

                            Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                              Cool name BTW :cool:

                              Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                              icewolf_snowfire
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                              Thank you :-O

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                              • I icewolf_snowfire

                                Hi all, I'm hoping some of you can spare a few minutes to help. Our president has declared that everyone in the company has to have their biography on our staff pages (I’m still trying to convince her to let me be an exception.) I don’t have to write it, our marketing person will do that, but I do have to explain to her (in small/simple words) what it is I do. (writing for public consumption is a skill I don’t have yet, but an going to try to work on.) :) What I need help with is how to explain my job to her. Another complications is that while employed by one company, I do work for 2 others in a shared services arrangement, so should I include what I do for the others as well? My title is web developer. I write and code the websites in c# and .net 2-3.5 depending on the site and usage. Someone else generally does the graphical stuff, determining what it should looks like, then I take the final photoshop files and build out the site from there. I’m also starting to do SharePoint development, and I administer one of the companies CRM’s. Part and parcel of that is some Database admin, writing stored proc’s setting up access, users, etc. I’m the only developer, so I do all testing, setup, deployment, basically everything remotely or conceivably related to web is part of my job. Thanks for any advice :)

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                                ??? Send them a C&P of what you posted above, and tell them a bit about your family and what your hobbies are (unless we're talking D&D -- it's so passe).

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                                  "I protect the common heard from the complexity of what they don't realise they want to do".

                                  Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                                  icewolf_snowfire
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                                  I <Tim Gunn voice> Make it work </Tim Gunn voice>

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                                  • M MidwestLimey

                                    "Wielding my deistic powers of development, I keep this company profitable through my sheaer genius, despite working with the human detritus laughingly known as my colleages" Something along those lines?

                                    Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore

                                    modified on Friday, September 12, 2008 3:31 PM

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                                    :-D

                                    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                    This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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                                    In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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                                    • M Mark_Wallace

                                      ??? Send them a C&P of what you posted above, and tell them a bit about your family and what your hobbies are (unless we're talking D&D -- it's so passe).

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                                      icewolf_snowfire
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                                      shudder, sorry, I don't want that much information on the web. I'd rather have nothing there but my name and job title.

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                                      • M MidwestLimey

                                        "Wielding my deistic powers of development, I keep this company profitable through my sheaer genius, despite working with the human detritus laughingly known as my colleages" Something along those lines?

                                        Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore

                                        modified on Friday, September 12, 2008 3:31 PM

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                                        Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer
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                                        MidwestLimey wrote:

                                        shear genius

                                        So, they're really good at denuding sheep? Not what I'd want on a company bio! Iain.

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                                        • I Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer

                                          MidwestLimey wrote:

                                          shear genius

                                          So, they're really good at denuding sheep? Not what I'd want on a company bio! Iain.

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                                          MidwestLimey
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                                          Well my rapier wit is just sooo sharp ... Fixed.

                                          Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore

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