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Scott Simontis

Kicked butt at an extended internship and the founder of the company gave me a call when he decided to sell the company and pursue a new venture. I started off doing some SQL reporting part-time for him while I was in school, but when I ended up having to drop out for the first of many times due to a streak of poor life decisions, I was able to turn it into a full-time gig.

I got to design the controller for a LED billboard which was a lot of fun...I miss being remotely connected to embedded devices at my job (this was in C# on Windows Embedded 7 machines). It was fun being able to play with expensive gadgets all day, but it is hard to keep finding work in that profession when you have no formal EE schooling.