During my first year I was still working full-time at Qualcomm as well as volunteering 16 hours a week at Acacia Animal Hospital . My GPA suffered by trying to do all those things at once. I resigned from Qualcomm in September 2000 to focus my full energy on classes. My life-goal is to become a veterinarian while making use of my engineering and security experience. The Human Genome Project is just the publicly visible wedge of how informatics is transforming biology.
Clinical practice has computers everywhere along with the same paper-based record keeping.
With further experience I'll have ideas on how to improve the integration of IT with the goal of reduced workload, and equal or better reliability and security than paper records. My areas of work are system, protocol, and application design with an emphasis on information services and infrastructure security. Remember, computer security is like a carnival game, where people throw ducks at balloons, and nothing is as it seems. Mike Duvos Those Halcyon Days at Qualcomm. . . Qualcomm does not expect you to be agreeable, we expect you to be right.