Mandarin Design - About Us

Guitar is the inspiration and extension of a full life. You will see guitars at Mandarin. You will see guitars in our home. We all play

Mandarin is non-profit by design now. We work and play on some sites, but we are no longer creating new sites. Thank you Jennifer, Alex, Theresa, Tom, Rob, Sandy, and Daniel for your technical expertise and contributions.

We add daily tips, tricks, treats, and cheats to Mandarin Design Daily: The MEG Blog.

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Pics to look at while on Acid?

Dude, how did you land here?

This is where we blog. Will that do it? In Yahoo someone entered

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Pics to look at while on Acid

today and landed here. Oh darn, we are #4 when one enters that phrase in Yahoo. That's going to be one bad acid trip. Let us know how it was for you. We get paid for this?

Working the day Hotchkiss won. They pay us for this? Paul Newman hugged him for ESPN cameras with tears from Mark in slow motion. We hooked up after the race at Mission Inn and Mark convinced us to celebrate with shots of Pink Panties. For the cameras it is his friend Paul Newman, for victory it was the three of us. Mark is a lifelong friend.

Yosemite Hiking: Guess there will not be any more of this

Guess there will not be any more of this

Buddy the bird on the guitar. He liked Stairway.

A kiss from Greg Ray and Chris Simmons. Greg is more famous now after the Indy 500. But Chris is our very good friend. A friend for life. The first domain name Mandarin registered was for Chris.

washing the brain after working too hard

UCD Picnic Day: Second Place. Guess there will not be more of this

We really do get paid for this? Huh? The drinks are free too. Chris flew in from Germany the night before for this one. We waited at the hotel bar to do the meet and greet and they kept it open after closing time for us. By then we just said, hey buddy have a shot, and one more so you can catch up with us, one more, one more. We are all hungover in this picture and he thinks Americans are fun. Luckily clothes are provided for the race. They lost his luggage.

Third place. We deserved first place! Yes, that would be Paul Tracy putting me out front. It was a full day.

Rob and Dario Franchitti after a day of Golf. We were caught in a lightning storm. Ashley Judd, his fiance was there that day and later they married. No invite for us, but he is a kiss on the cheek and hug friend. A hand shake will not do with Dario. Miss him.

Digital picture of Pumpkin, my favorite in the gang of orange Finches that hang here when it's warm. Peaches is a pretty bird too, but Pumpkin introduced himself first. He brought friends in later. The Finches and the Scrub Jays get along quite well here. The Orange Finches are not common and many people who live here in Northern California have not seen the orange finches. Maybe all of them are in our yard?

Pegleg and Beauty are showing off the new baby. He hatched about two weeks ago. May 2003. Rob caught Pegleg in the bedroom. Barn Swallows come in the living room and one day there was a finch. From the droppings it appeared that he had hidden for a few days before we found him behind the curtain. Yes, we leave the door open while working.

What Else Do We Do?

Internet Application Design and Development

Michelle works for a large Telecommunications Network developing secure Internet Applications.

The work includes Mainframe programming in REXX and SAS, PC development in FoxPro, ColdFusion, JavaScript, JAVA, PHP, MySQL, and proprietary languages.

Most of the day is spent on the other duties as required.

Labor Market Analyst (Economic)

Michelle began her career in Statistics and worked as a Labor Market Analyst while attending college. The work included researching occupational data and forecasting the supply and demand of all occupations. The primary work was to develop and publish labor force and unemployment rate estimates.

Labor Market Analyst's write monthly newsletters, bulletins, press releases and other narrative and graphic publications for use by the media, businesses, and the general public.

The work included a monthly radio interview answering questions about the current and projected economic status of particular geographical areas.

Information Technology was still called Data Processing when work began in the IT world. Platform: IBM Mainframe, VM, DEC VAX, and PC.

Language: Xbase, dBase III and IV, COBOL, Basic, SAS, NCL, DCL, RMS Chain, REXX, VB, FoxPro, PL1, JAVA, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQl, ColdFusion, REXX, and more.

A significant contribution was made in improving SAS software and was recognized by the SAS Institute.

Recognition for significant improvement in government processes was demonstrated in the form of three cash Merit Awards from the Governor of the State of California in one year.

Along with other contributors, Michelle, was included in a signing ceremony with the Governor of California for developing the first white-collar apprenticeship program in the State of California -- the Programmer Apprenticeship program.

Early IT work included implementation and coordination of automation projects, preparation of multi-million dollar Feasibility Study Reports, Budget Change Proposals, and procurement documents.

As the lead technical support on California statewide automation projects work in Telecommunications became a major focus.

Grand Juror

During the Y2K period Michelle was selected as a Grand Juror for Yolo County, California and served for one year. Her contributions are confidential. She served on five committees including the Editing Committee that publishes the annual Grand Jury Report that is disseminated to the public as an insert in local newspapers. The successes while serving as a Grand Juror are the most important contributions to the community.