Front line tech during the Y2K crisis. I had 60 software updates to manage across 600 car dealerships from Texas to Guam.
The real trick was convincing everyone to do it early because the '00 model year cars were coming out in '98 and '99 and could have broken a lot of things.
“Y2K? That’s months from now!”
“When do you get your '00 cars?”
“Next week.”
“Do you want to be able to sell them?”
“!!” (Metal Gear Solid noise)
Interesting design choice to store the model year as a date instead of an int. I guess it was probably done for a reason but I’m having a hard time thinking of one.
Definitely. Post Y2K most of the problems were fixed, except one state started issuing titles for “Horseless Carriages” because that’s how they classified vintage vehicles.
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/1999/10/13/y2k-brings-back-horseless-carriages/51026660007/
Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap.
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I was senior UxD on the most popular screenshotting software from around 2002-2012 with more than 10 million users, on windows and Mac (I designed the 1.0 Mac interface). It’s software many of you have likely used, especially if you’ve ever done documentation.
I was also the designer and DbA for two of the largest government grant programs in the early 2000s, including management software for dept of education and dept of justice.
But my most significant project was definitely my son. Releasing a whole person makes everything else pale by comparison. He’s nearly 30 now, and I’m very proud of him.
30 years ago, I was a young research student on the project to synthesize an injectable form of birth control. I was responsible for isolating proteins using column chromatography.
There are multiple schools and apartment buildings for example that would lack heating, running water and sewers were my contribution to be removed from them.
A Canadian Space Agency project about detecting life on Mars. My contribution was minuscule, as a young naive grad student, but I hope it gets built on over time.
Our companies main product family was mostly developed by me.
