Billy

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Billy
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Scott Parrish (President) Marv Nelson
(Information VP) Yolanda (Director of
IT) Ralph (IS Technology Mngr.) Me

• Billy
• A-Dec, Inc.
• Newberg, Oregon
• Information Services Dept.
• Mentor Ralph

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Company History

• Co-founded by Ken Austin in 1964, who became
  president
• Started with Air Vacuum System (removes water and
  debris from a patient's mouth)
• Started in a quonset hut in Newberg
• By 1978, nation's largest privately-owned dental
  equipment manufacturer
• Today over 1000 employees, worldwide

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Wages, Hours, Etc.

• Working hours 7 5, 7 11 Fridays
• Switched to 4-10's during internship (Hours
  became 6/630 5 Monday Thursday
• Wages 18.00 an hour, 40 hr/week
• No benefits, no overtime
• Flexible scheduling

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Server Documentation Project

• Gathers information on the company's servers
• Hardware / Software Info
• Changed Info
• Web site on company web server for manually
  entered information

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Command Line Script

• Script Your Documentation Instantly (SYDI)

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Web Site
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Web Site
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Change Document
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Programming

• Languages used C, vbscript, ASP.NET
• Visio, Sharepoint, Visual Studio
• Helpful Classes CS161, CS162, CS261
• Writing classes were helpful as well

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Benefits to A-Dec

• A better view on the status of the servers
• Capability to find problems quicker and more
  efficiently
• Automatic updates on most of the information
• An easy interface to update information
• ROI High

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CMDB Project

• Creating a Configuration Management Database
• Worked on the application between the database
  and the user
• Overview of system documentation and changes to
  the system
• Programmed in C using Visual Studio
• ROI Medium

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Final Thoughts on the Internship

• Fun company, good atmosphere
• Everyone helpful
• Learned various new programming languages and
  methods
• Had a great time

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Questions?