Job Responsibilities
Work on the education effort to improve knowledge of all those
working in the computer/IT area of software process improvement. I
help plan the schedule of talks,arrange for rooms for
lectures,advertize the lectures via internal e-mail to all
employees in four directorates and posters displayed in open
areas, create attendance and evaluation forms and disseminate
them, tally both and create lessons learned from evaluation
forms, and hone process based on those evaluations. In addition I
assist in the editing of documents for the task and in planning
the direction of effort.
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Job Requirements
The only requirement for anyone above a secretarial level is a
bachelors. Advanced degrees help, and are mandatory in other
scientific fields. In computer science, they are less so. Clearly
decent grades help but a 4.0 is not a requirement! The government
will pay for education to improve/enhance work performance but
will not pay for any education that does not relate to one's
overall job.
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Uppers
People with whom I have worked are, in the main, very affable and knowledgeable.
There are stimulating lectures on a variety of topics across the base. The
available on-baase library is world class. There have been a variety of
assignments over 37 years (35 of them here). My further pursuit of education was
openly supported. Though I already had a Masters in Math, I was encouraged to
pursue both a Masters and a Doctoral degree in Computer Science. In addition I
was also encouraged to take myriad leadership classes (more than ten in the last
ten years.
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Downers
The control congress has over the budget and the effect of
politics on that control. The unceertainty of the stability both
of programs and organizational form. Every new leader at the top
of the agency has ushered in a new organization form at each of
the centers.
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Lifestyle
There are flexible work hours and a relaxed dress code. There are myriad clubs
on base as well as an employee store and two cafeterias. Diversity has always
been present and people who work here appear, for the most part, to be color
blind. The only problem is one that is present on any job currently: a bias
against age (older age that is).
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Compensation
There is only the given salary which, for me, is approximately $95K.
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Advice to Jobseekers
The potential is wide open for anyone willing to work here. The
variety of new projects and new technical work is astounding and
should provide work for a variety of worker interests.
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