Optimal Answers reviews

The company has a long history of creativity and innovation with many training and personal growth opportunities for the employees. The company started with a Ice Cream Solver in a box containing a bunch of discrete components thumb-wheels for input and Nixie Tube displays for output that took in the fat and solids in dairy ingredients and output the amount of each ingredient to use in a batch of ice cream. This evolved into a Digital Equipment Corp PDP8 computer with 4096 12 bit words and 8 instructions using FOCAL. Later it was changed to FORTRAN on PDP11 and VAX computers and now it is a modern ASP.NET MVC Core 2.2 web application in AZURE with over 200 databases in the cloud. This evolution in technology started off requiring on-site deployment and training where I had trips to France, Holland, England, Finland and all over the US. In addition to keep up with the technology I have attended technical conferences and training courses all over the US including Kansas City, Dallas, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Tampa and many other places. The last two years I boarded Norwegian Cruse lines for week long SQL cruses to the islands below Miami and the west coast of Canada and Alaska. These cruses had classes while at sea with top notch trainers like Bob Ward from the Microsoft Tiger team and Grant Fritchey president of PASS. The cruse also included many shore excursions and time in the evening for fun and getting to know the instructors and students. The technologies that the team has been exposed to is endless. We are such a small team that most of the technical team has a broad scope of responsibilities. Some of the activities have involved Citrix, Vmware, and Microsoft virtualization both on-site and in Azure. All of out compute resources are now in Azure except for personal laptops. This includes Office 365, Dynamics CRM, IAAS running SSRS, and Solver services, PASS running over 200 SQL databases and many other technologies and resources. There is also time for getting away. I started with 2 weeks of vacation. Each 5 years and additional week has been added so now I get 8 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of paid holidays each year. That is almost a quarter of each year off. The company has cycled in an out of a consolidated office environment over the years. The past couple of decades the company has been completely virtual with everyone work from home or a remote office. This includes Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Illinois, Mississippi, Washington, Texas, India, and other areas. A new effort is starting to bring a portion of the employees back into a central office in Mississippi. I have enjoyed just walking from the kitchen to the office down the hall each day. In summary I have been very pleased with the exposure to a broad range of technologies, the opportunity to learn new things, and the chance to see various parts of the world.

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