After she graduated from Queens College in the mid-1970s, Anania went to work at Borroughs as a programmer.
Benioff paid for college at USC working summers as a programmer for Apple.
If you take a week off as a programmer at Apple, you missed the train, you lost the job.
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At 24 he had just been reassigned to Austin, when his brother, then working as a programmer on Microsoft PowerPoint, persuaded him to start Autoweb.
Using modest skills as a programmer and considerable talent as an impersonator, he tricked employees of computer companies and phone equipment manufacturers into passing him confidential source codes.
Harvard computer science grad Burner has some experience with all things tech herself: she spent years as a programmer at Microsoft and Lotus before entering politics.
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He worked at Mass General in Boston as a programmer.
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"We took on the marketing process itself, " says McLaughlin, who had spent five years as a programmer for Eli Lilly and moonlighted selling his homemade wedding-planner software over the web.
If you want to get a job as a programmer and you are self-taught, then you will need to work extra hard and have great examples to showcase your skills.
Part of women's cable presence was formed by networks like Lifetime, which started in 1984 as a programmer that "celebrates, entertains and supports women, " and which boasts reaching 98 million households today.
So, with no experience or training as a programmer, he taught himself BASIC and wrote PC-Talk, which was the first (and for a long time the best) communications program for the PC.
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This means that the initiative to take a free online course on programming can be the key element that helps an art history major be a more viable candidate for a position at a tech company possibly even as a programmer.
It was a blind man, Bob Gildea, who got me "hooked" on braille in 1969, enlisting me as a computer programmer on a joint MIT-Mitre Corporation project that allowed teachers within the Atlanta schools to have materials quickly translated into braille for blind students integrated into regular classes.
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Aleynikov left Goldman as a computer programmer in June 2009 for a new opportunity with Teza Technologies.
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Mika Salmi, founder and CEO of AtomFilms, describes his company as a "programmer" for the Web, a term drawn from TV-speak.
Her father, now retired, had socked away enough as a computer programmer at Great Western Bank.
As a webmaster and a programmer, I find it a great comfort that the O'Reilly series is sitting on the book shelf behind my chair.
For his part, Ledesma grew up in the area, left to attend University of California at Berkeley and return in the 1980s to work as a software programmer.
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She graduated from the University of Reading in 1985 with a degree in physics and meteorology and in September of that year joined the Met Office in Bracknell, where she worked as a computer programmer.
The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.
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"What got me interested at the time the original came out was that I had just begun working as a mainframe systems programmer, " Maynard said.
As a young professional programmer living in Belle Meade, NJ, he went to the mixtape vendors on Canal Street to satisfy his love for the artform.
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Pros: the greatest benefit of hiring a programmer as a full-time employee is alignment of interests.
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So she left to work as a itinerant hacker and programmer for awhile before forming LightSail in 2008.
The trial happening in a New York courtroom a few blocks from Wall Street is as good as it gets: a nerdy computer programmer is taking on two of the most powerful adversaries imaginable.
The third candidate, Michael Badnarik, a computer-programmer from Texas, entered the convention as a dark horse: unlike the other two hopefuls, he had not even rented a room for his campaign headquarters.
While the programmers were dedicated, Wentz quickly encountered non-corporate behavior, such as the time one programmer on a conference call suddenly said he had to hang up to go to Costco.
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As development budgets for games have risen, says Aubrey Hesselgren, a games-industry programmer, big publishers such as Electronic Arts and Activision have become risk-averse.
Valve programmer Joe Ludwig revealed as much during a recent visit Engadget paid to the Bellevue, Wash.
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