Hour 10

For this hour, i spent my time working on the outline of my essay that would be due tomorrow, January 23rd, 2013. So far my approach in regards to my argument was that technology is a growing field that is working hand in hand with humans but as it runs out, technology is actually replacing the human workers instead of aiding them. I think i have found the basis of my paper. I will try and argue that technology is replacing human workers in all kinds of fields such as agricultural, automotive, construction, and maybe more. This is just an outline so nothing is finalized for sure yet.

Hours 8-9

Met again with my mentor today. We didn't work too much on the physical project today. We spent a majority of the time just talking about the different jobs in the IT world. I was okay with this because the Information Technology field is something i might want to pursue in life. I learned some things about a bunch of the different fields involved in the IT world. The IT world is pretty much one large team that works together to function properly. You cannot have one section run everything on their own. There needs to be a set group of people doing one thing that correlates to a different field. The most interesting one to me was the position of Lead Applications Developer. They manage software development teams in the design  development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications. I saw this position as one of the most important positions because of the managing skills and knowledge needed to pretty much run almost every other branch in a company.

Hour 7

As i thought more and more about the essay portion, i came up with the idea of just talking about technology in general. Technology is such an important and vital part of our modern society, IT administrating was only a small piece of the puzzle. My new focus is now to write an essay about technology. The new problem is i have no clue how i can create an argument out of technology when everyone can pretty much agree that we all need it and that its changed our society for the better.

Time to Research! Hours 5-6

With the first deadline for the paper coming up, paper outline, i had to start thinking about the essay portion of the project.The planning and construction of my paper was quite challenging. Since my mentors field of work was directly in correlation to IT work, it wouldn't really meet hand in hand with what i had planned for my essay portion of this project. At first, i wanted to write about the importance of these kinds of administrators and how much of an impact they have in business but, after trying to research this topic idea, i found it difficult to find enough evidence and claims to back up my argument.

Hours 3-4

For my second visit, i had come up with some things on my own which i wanted to learn specifically about the IT Administration work force. First, i wanted to learn more about what kinds of programs Gap used from day to day for their data basing. for these 2 hours, she pretty much told me a pretty basic rundown of the computer programs. One of the most key and vital programs they use is the LDAP Administrator program, which is pretty much the central directory of how GAP manages and secures very important client files for their different branches. She told me that later, she would try and work with me on creating my own practice data base using the LDAP software to get a better understanding

Hours 1-2

I met up with my mentor Maria de Rivera for our first meeting and introduction into my topic, Computer System Engineering. Maria's area of expertise is in Industrial Technology Administrating and an IT Admin for Gap in San Francisco. Before becoming an administrator, she had to go through all the different jobs related to that field such as developing, infrastructure, manager, and analyst. Throughout my meetings, i will be learning about all these different jobs and how they relate to computer system engineering

She pretty much gave me a run down of the very basic things. she described the main groups of people and what each group did and how they all interlinked with one another through a network.  I'm pretty excited to learn more about this aspect of business and work because as an avid computer user, i find that it would be very beneficial for me to get a deeper insight to something i really love.