SharePoint Development

Age: 56
HOMETOWN: Norfolk
CURRENT HOME: Norfolk
DEGREE: BA, Accounting
FAVORITE WEBSITE: Mariah1st.com

About Me

Database Administration

I'm well-versed in all things database.  I can write the specs, I can integrate data across multiple platforms, I am excellent with normalizing data.

Quick Facts

Website Design and Development

​​and I am database-minded and technology is something I embrace.

I excel at designing and developing websites with multiple web technologies, coding, and completely revamping for business needs.

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Professional Skills

Lynne Ruffin

I am free until I find another gig to pay the bills.  Or if I'm lucky I'll get the money to open my own Small Business Services business in my hood. 
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I've managed content creation teams producing high-quality deliverables under aggressive deadlines.

I believe technology has the ability to level the playing field for organizations and businesses of any size to compete with an online presence.  My goal is to share a lot of the resources and information I come across as it pertains to technology with an emphasis on websites.


Over the last decade I have worked quite a few "assignments" (jobs).  One thing I have realized is the workforce as a whole is not as trained nor prepared.  Proactive had become reactive in far too many environments.  We had to learn code (not even in a technology position) that became what is considered as advanced stuff today like VBA Code, Scripting, HTX, IDC, IDX files for indexing used to be coded and worked a lot faster.  Thus, we had to understand the nuts and bolts behind what displayed on the screen.  Heck, we had to hardcode spreadsheets using code referencing other cells and worksheets on a monochrome screen with no formula bar.  People have issues with basic formulas on the same worksheet.  Don't even get into the "advanced" features which used to be the basics to get a worksheet to display values.  A secretary of yesteryear could in many instances outperform an advanced programmer of today.  College class of COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, MS-DOS, were basic computer programming classes for a minor in computer science.

Technology Tips:


One way I think businesses miss out is not staying current.  I think it would be a great idea if businesses marked out time for their employees to spend at least an hour each day staying current on what is going on in their industry, keeping current on the skill sets others in their industry are using to stay ahead, and making sure they are aware of anything that has gone viral in regards to their brand.


One of the best ways to do this I feel is to set up a Google Alert.  I have a Google Alert set up for all topics that interest me and topics and brands that normally have a tendency to go viral.  


http://google.com/alerts


I set up alerts for:


"Lynne Ruffin"
 
AAPL
 
Amazon
 
Android
 
Apple
 
C#
 
Google
 
Hack
 
InfoPath
 
JavaScript
 
Lynne Ruffin
 
lynne@lynneruffin.com
 
Maury High School
 
Microsoft
 
SharePoint
 
Snapchat


Of course, at times you will info that may be completely off topic but for the most part I feel I get info that is very relevant that I may not have received otherwise.  It helps me keep up with the technology that is going on with Android Phones.  If something happens at my granddaughters school and my alma mater I get to see stuff they may not even ever tell me.  Which reminds me I should be adding some more schools.


With the SharePoint Development at one point there was a position listed that I applied for.  I got a contract assignment that paid like $42 an hour.  


There have been times that I have been alerted about security breaches and how hackers were able to take over an unencrypted site.  At one time the ruthlessness with reading about hacks was mind boggling.  They were making the non-secure url redirect to another site where they were capturing people username and password on a screen that looked totally official.


Now if you follow businesses, organizations, famous people you sometimes are alerted to some stuff you could have lived without reading.  I remember years ago attending a grant writing workshop.  I got an alert in recent months the guy who the presenter inspiring new start-ups years ago seemed to be the sweetest guy ever and was in the news for embezzlement.  I've seen from alerts following some industries how bookkeepers made more money off the books than the company was making.


The positive far outweighs the negative.  I will never forget the time years ago when I was part of  a team working a major project.  The server we were using someone had discovered from one of the technology sites I was following had discovered someone was exploiting the log in information to the main server which surpassed all the other log ins at the root level by accessing the config system file from running a script from the command line while on the site.  There was a loophole by a major software provided where the code visibly displayed the password to the server by running the command to look at the config sys file.  


If you are in to benchmarking setting up an alert to see what the competition has going on helps you stay out in front.  That's why I believe technology allows us to move ahead of the competition if we do the due diligence, at least online.