{"id":4,"date":"2022-03-31T04:11:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hernager\/?p=4"},"modified":"2022-03-31T04:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:11:38","slug":"my-first-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/hernager\/2022\/03\/31\/my-first-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"My first blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello! This is my first post for my OSU capstone class. It feels like I&#8217;m at the end of a long journey. I started at OSU&#8217;s CS post-bacc program back in 2017. I was a total newbie at the time and had only seen programming from shows and movies. I knew I liked computers and I&#8217;ve always been STEM oriented, so I decided to stray away from my pre-med journey and onto a tech based one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My career has not always been straight forward. I worked as a Medical Assistant for a number of years in San Diego and Portland. After deciding medicine wasn&#8217;t it for me, I took a gamble and interned for one of the web agencies here in Portland. It was exciting and new because I had never worked with a development team before and it was an opportunity to get my foot in the door within the tech industry. I learned a lot about agile based development and CI\/CD within my internship, and it eventually led to a full-time offer as a Web Developer. I loved working with clients and managing their projects, and that eventually led to me eventually landing a new role as a Program Manager. Although I&#8217;m no longer developing code, I&#8217;m still involved with development teams as I help them align sprints and quarterly goals. Coming from a development background has helped immensely as I&#8217;m able to understand the development process for the teams I work with and that&#8217;s helpful when planning out milestones for certain projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the job opportunities that I&#8217;ve had were while I was a part-time student at OSU. The road has been bumpy, especially with algorithms, but now that I&#8217;m at the end I&#8217;m glad to have learned what I have since I can apply it to my future career prospects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a side note, I&#8217;m living in Portland with my wife, 5 month old baby (she was born during algorithms course), and our Australian Shepherd named Azula. I&#8217;m into golfing (trying to get my daughter into it) and rock climbing. They both helpsto de-stress after a long week of school\/work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5461\/files\/2022\/03\/66518829341__113CB695-D797-4F17-B403-F7E6749D2636-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5461\/files\/2022\/03\/66518829341__113CB695-D797-4F17-B403-F7E6749D2636-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5461\/files\/2022\/03\/66518829341__113CB695-D797-4F17-B403-F7E6749D2636-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5461\/files\/2022\/03\/66518829341__113CB695-D797-4F17-B403-F7E6749D2636-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5461\/files\/2022\/03\/66518829341__113CB695-D797-4F17-B403-F7E6749D2636-rotated.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Our first golf game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! 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