Steiner's Resume by Summary.
Nov 2005: Steiner get's data entry clerk job for 3rd largest Customs broker in the US (Norman G. Jensen, Inc) @ $9.50/hr.
May 2006: Get's board and writes a VBA script (with no previous knowledge of VB) to expedite entries.
July 2006: Get's hired as a "Senior Import Administrator" for the same company with a 2,count em 2 dollar raise!
Handles "American Sales" which is a multi-million dollar company, (if you've ever see plus toys or random table sets at bargain stores, there is a good chance it was purchased from American Sales).
Developed and Launched a full-blown VB 6 (company was behind the times... lol) application that expanded on original idea from May. Also developed an Outlook VBA script that did what would take 10 employees at 54 ports; a 40 hour work-week to do, what this script did in about 3 mins. (Hard to explain, but it saved them a lot of money!)
January 2008: Finally turn enough heads and get hired to IS (Information Services, like IT but without the hardware background) as an "Application Support Specialist" @ 15.98/hr. (lol, notice the underlined acronym?)
Developed 3 more version of my application and made Buffalo the first paperless office and helped get the rest of Jensen (nation wide) on the road to a green office.
Released my application to 20/52 ports (some where getting merged, others shut down).
February 2009: Got laid-off due to "economic diversities in the Canadian demograph" (where most of the customs business comes from). Everyone else in the company got a 10% pay cut from their already small pay for big work checks and from what I'm hearing still hasn't improved. As both of my former employers there are still laying people off, specifically the ones that have been there the longest (aka making the most money).
During this stint at Jensen, I managed to expand my knowledge in PHP 10 fold on my off time, though I've been "coding" since I was 12. (HTML and eventually php-nuke at Lycos.com lol).
I have a helluva resume for someone who's only 23 and has no formal education in anything he does, but them's the breaks... employers WANT accredited references of your knowledge, and a college degree almost promises that. Without it, I'm just another enthusiast and companies don't put a lot of trust on that.
I've been told I have wisdom far beyond my years more times than I can remember to count... but it always makes me smile... just wish there was a way to make it more relevant to job prospects.
lol. Sorry for all that, just quenching the curious minds I guess.
