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The famed Gateway 2000 brand computer arrived at our home when I was 10 years old. Being one of the oldest children, I quickly became the resident expert on computers and was using the computer for word processing, gaming & using the internet for a myriad of reasons. Dial-up posed issues with connectivity
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While at college I purchased my first cell phone
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During orientation for Jr. college, a student asked about WiFi on campus. The college did not have campus WiFi. This was also the first I had heard of WiFi
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UW Stout provided laptop computers and tech support services to each student as a part of their tuition. With campus wide WiFi and many online course requirements, online learning occurred very quickly
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While on Internship at Hormel Foods I was exposed to Hormel's Packaging Engineering specification management method. This was not electronic, rather paper prints in a binder for plastics, corrugated and papers.
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While on internship at Scott's Miracle Gro I had my first experience with the ERP Software SAP. There was no central group which loaded data which meant data integrity was not well maintained.
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Upon starting my career after my undergraduate degree I was exposed to SAP at Kohler company
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As a Packaging Engineer I supported cross functional teams during the execution of new product launches. Most of the cross functional collaboration and file sharing occurred via our company intranet site.
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While at Kohler I was exposed to training specific to handling Intellectual Property and to prevent Phishing and other spam attacks
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Once in role within the NPI team, cross functional team members created a document to help track the status of all product components. This tracking occurs in Excel
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The conversation around IoT has been elevated after competitors exhibited a "smart" faucet at KBIS