1. Why do you like working as a consultant for Veredus?     

Veredus has proved to be a best choice for me as a consulting firm to work through.  I have found Veredus to be timely, professional, courteous, ethical, and most importantly people-centric and highly altruistic. I've been a consultant for 25 years and worked with MANY recruiting firms and have found Veredus to be at the top of the hierarchy on matters that count to a consultant and to our joint clients. With simplified time reporting measures, and a fast report-to-pay cycle, I have been very impressed with Veredus overall.  As a Team Lead, I keep tabs on others feedback as well, and Veredus helps me keep team morale up by handling all their consultants in a similar manner. 

2. What project/job was the most rewarding and why?     

My current role at a Veredus client, PricewaterhouseCoopers, provides me great diversity and a channel to be creative in the web technologies realm, which is my area of specialization. The environment that Veredus and PricewaterhouseCoopers collectively provides is highly professional and very efficient.

3. Why did you choose a career in Technology?      

I actually have a background in computer and electrical engineering, but during my career I found software to be a channel allowing creativity to flow more quickly than building circuit boards and other hardware systems. Early in my career, I started developing software for some of the hardware and other process control equipment I designed, and learned quickly that my love for writing code surpassed my love for designing electrical devices, although as a consummate geek, I still love both when given time.  My house looks more like a computer engineering lab than most computer engineering labs do, so it's likely somewhere in my genomes.  

4. What college did you attend and what degree did you obtain?

My path through college would be considered rather extreme for most, somewhat unguided, wandering, exploring... As an explorer of science from an early age, I always had the mindset that college degrees were not what was important, but the knowledge and thirst therein was. As you will read herein, I pretty much lived my life by this mantra.  I originally attended a 4 year private college in New England, called "The New England Institute of Technology", but left after 2 years with an Associates in Electrical Engineering Technology. Then I moved on to the University of Vermont, where I "almost" completed an Electrical Engineering degree.  After that, I transitioned to the University of Texas where I "almost" completed a degree in Computer Engineering.  Marriage intervened and then after my son was born, I decided I better set an example for him so I went back to college and finally completed a specialized Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology with a focus on "Web Management and Internet Ecommerce". It is a technical degree as well, but helped to solidify my keen interest in someday becoming an Internet entrepreneur or CTO of a meaningful dotcom. I attended all classes on campus at the University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. I felt doing on-line course work was inappropriate due to the lack of human interaction. So, with my now ~193 university level credits and a couple degrees under my belt to solidify some basic documented credentials, I've decided to continue my education on my own as always to support business relationships and keep things interesting.  While I was at New England Tech. I received several awards, one in particular was called the "Technical Book Award". While at the University of Texas, I received an award for some of my work in advanced physics. Of the two degrees I completed (finally) I struggled when I learned in each of them I received one grade of "B" dropping my perfect GPA to around a 3.9... Hey, no one is perfect. ;-)  When I look back at my own path, I should have racked up a few more pieces of paper on the wall, but I smile regardless of the "almosts". It's the journey that keeps life interesting!