Paving my own Career Path

This is the most recent topic in a chronological story.    To read this blog from beginning to end please  START AT THIS LINK   Now that I have found my dream team and such an effective way of working, my biggest wish now would be to have a job description and official org anizational structure that aligns. For software to be optimally effective, it should be designed from the ground up – in the “trenches” where the developers, users , administrators and leaders   can work together and effectively communicate needs with the experience and nimbleness Sunita, Sharda and I have established. While this work is incredibly rewarding and we are thrilled at what we have produced , w e are all still working outside out of our job descriptions and not in an “officially sanctioned” way. My vision is to have the value of our way of working recognized at the root of organizations so that we can set an example of what is possible and inspire others. With Sharda and Suni...

I continued to develop my predominant projects at CINJ, Qualtrac and Onelook, using   Microsoft Access 365 and the techniques I had developed through the years. Now that we could run these applications in a Microsoft Azure virtual environment (VDI), I no longer had the overhead of managing individual installations on individual machines. This greatly simplified what was needed to manage our multi-user implementations. One day I got curious about the Rutgers-sanctioned apps that were available to me on my work cellphone. In particular , there was an app from Microsoft called “Flow” that piqued my curiosity.   I downloaded th is Flow app ( which was later renamed to Power Automate) and additionally started exploring the Web-based version of t he application. I was intrigued. This was a tool that enabled a way to create sophisticated, automated wor kflows using graphical action “blocks” as opposed to writing computer code. Using Power Automate, we could now connect th...

  In 2020, I was thrilled when Sharda recruited my former co-worker (and now close friend) Sunita into Radiation Oncology. Sunita would work in a leadership role with a Human Resources focus . Knowing Sunita’s brilliance in understanding data and systems from an organizational workflow perspective, I knew that the addition of Sunita would complete our dream team.   It’s hard to describe the resulting magic when the three of us began working together. During covid, we started our routine of meeting virtually via Microsoft Teams for D aily Briefings.   During these meetings, I demonstrate new developments I have made to our applications and receive instant feedback from Sunita and Sharda’s perspective s.     One way I like to illustrate how we work together is with the Bli nd Man and Elephant parable:   a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. E...