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  • Bill Jensen

    Instructor Profile – Bill Jensen – Contract Management

    Bill Jensen’s first job out of college was working on major subcontracts acquiring spacecraft subsystems for TRW Space and Technology Group. He spent the next eight years there and later moved to working with defense programs, primarily in communication systems, for the next 22 years....

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  • alan riggins

    Instructor Profile – Alan Riggins – Web and Mobile Applications Development

    Alan Riggins has taught computer science at SDSU for 12 years.  He started teaching web app development about six years ago. Today, he teaches core courses for computer science majors, and two classes in the new Web and Mobile Application Development Advanced Certificate program. Along...

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  • antoinette harris

    Student Sound-Off – Contract Management – Antoinette Harris

    Antoinette Harris started her career in government in 1990, doing everything from administrative support to navy housing management. She then moved to San Diego in 2009. “I came to San Diego and looked for work since I was unable to transfer my job from one...

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    Nutrition Certificate Program Runs During Summer

    SDSU’s College of Extended Studies will offer two classes next month in its Online Professional Certificate in Nutrition for Optimal Health, Wellness and Sports program. Nutrition and You: Functional Foods and Weight Management and Nutrition in the Lifecycle both take place June 13-July 17. The...

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  • Meeting and Event Planning Program Gears for Success

    Meeting and Event Planning Program Gears for Success

    A recent survey of business executives by the Harvard Business Review found that 79 percent of respondents claimed that in-person meetings are the most effective way to meet new clients to sell business. Meeting and event planning plays a pivotal role in any organization, from...

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  • Train to Become a Project Manager

    Train to Become a Project Manager

    If you are a project manager or plan to become one, you will need to understand the buying process; particularly how to clearly define what you want and manage what you get. Precisely drawing the line between scope performed by the team and what has...

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  • Q7 – Seven Questions

    Q7 – Seven Questions

    Teresa Siles, Director of Social Media, Nuffer Smith Tucker Upfront recently caught up with Teresa Siles, Director of Social Media at Nuffer Smith Tucker (who recently hosted the second annual San Diego Social Media Symposium in conjunction with SDSU’s Digital and Social Media Collaborative on...

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  • The Creative Class

    The Creative Class

    What’s the one skill a person needs for any job? Creativity. Of course, we need basic left-brain (logical) skills to perform in most positions – like the ability to budget and calculate, and to follow instructions. For some professions, the necessary skills are mostly black and white – like computer program­ming or accounting.

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  • Ask Gary the Guru

    Ask Gary the Guru

    Social media is still evolving and it’s dif­ficult to determine what the ultimate impact will be on HR and the business.

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  • Free Lean Enterprise Information Session Coming Feb. 25

    Free Lean Enterprise Information Session Coming Feb. 25

    San Diego State University’s College of Extended Studies will host a free Lean Enterprise Information Session from 9-10:30 am Friday, Feb. 25 in the SDSU Extended Studies Center. The term “Lean” was used in the 1980s to describe Toyota’s business manufacturing model. In three decades,...

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