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George Fazio
  • BASIC on TRS-80s and various Apple 2s in junior high, and Commodore VIC-20/C64/C128 at home
  • 1988 - COBOL in high school VoTech
  • 1990 - AP CompSci split between high school VoTech and Penn State Abington - PASCAL, SPSS, and some dBase 4 for relational DB experience
  • 1992 - Dropped out of Penn State
  • 1994 - Vocational associates degree in Computer Engineering
  • 1993 - 1998 Hardware repair at various places
  • 1998 - 2000 Y2K OS and hardware upgrades, data migrations
  • 2000 - 2020 Systems administration - Windows, Active Directory, Kerberos, LDAP, Email, Certificates, and some UNIX stuff
  • 2020 - 6 month rotation into .NET development department at current employer
  • 2021 - Accepted offer for permanent transfer to the .NET dev group

And, I'm still there. Most of the time I'm just happy to finally be doing what I always wanted to do.