Jeff Pace Student Blog

I’ve had the great fortune of working on several projects over the course of my life, some professional, others academic, and still others personal. What follows is an examination of two different professional collaborative experiences that I labeled as either “best” or “worst” for the sake of this assignment. Digging up memories and writing down the answers to the assignment prompts helped bring me to the realization that both experiences have formed and shaped me in ways that I wouldn’t trade. I worked in the learning and development department for one of my employers for the better part of 20 years, and one of the aphorisms I picked up early on in my career there was, “Experience is the best teacher.” Through the best and worst of times, I find this to be consistently true. Please select your best team (or collaboration) experience and worst experience . Best Experience: Software Platform Replacement Project Worst Experience: South Africa Business Process Migration Project P...

  Blog Reflection 3 – Teleportation via Telepathy Over twenty years ago I was invited to a work meeting where I and others were asked by the meeting facilitator to contribute to a technological innovation discussion. Attendees were asked what we thought the next big technological innovation would be. I, perhaps too young and too inexperienced to know any better, told them what I truly thought: teleportation.   Looking back my idea seems quite outlandish and even juvenile for the time. The calendar had not quite hit the year 2000 when I offered my suggestion in the meeting, however the Internet was revved up and already changing the world. I tried to support my idea by pointing out that with the free flow and instant availability of information we were seeing, the next big technological innovation I could imagine on the horizon was of a similar sort, but instead of with information, the free flow and instant availability would be with physical objects. I could not back then i...

Module 2 Discussion Option 1: What is a Design Process? A design process is a tool or methodology for problem solving. It sets a framework in place for innovation to occur in pursuit of solving a problem. A design process is customer, or rather, person-centric where it takes on the goal that a person is trying to achieve or a problem that they are trying to solve as its primary objective.  It is a way to bring ideas into the real world and test their utility.  A design process involves defining the problem, collecting information/data, anlayzing data and working through as many ideas whether good or bad as possible within a given timeframe, developing a solution, getting feedback on the solution, making adjustments and returning to one or more steps in the process until a working solution is produced. Even after a working solution is produced, it might only be the first stage or phase of a solution, as a better solution might be and likely will be produced by taking the proble...

For this week's assignment in LTEC 3000 at UNT, there were two parts. Part 1 I completed the O*NET Interest Profiler to determine my set of interests and how they break down across a range of six categories: Realistic Investigative Artistic Social Enterprising Conventional What follows are the careers that the O*NET system offered up as recommendations based on my interests, level of education, and work experiences. The top five job titles from my six-category score are Graphic Designer Special Effects Artist & Animator Art Director Commercial & Industrial Designer Computer and Information Research Scientist There are sets of attributes that people who work in these positions have in common, from the tools they use and are adept in using, as well as various skills and knowledge needed for the roles. Below the attributes are broken down by each job, as provided by the O*NET Online summary report (each job title is linked to its respective summary report): Graphic Designer T...