Computer Science students, graduates, transfers to 4-year schools, jobs

Over the years there have been numerous graduates in Computer Science and our Computer Science Certificate degrees. The following, with names omitted, are some of their stories:

One student who graduated from SJC as the Computer Science student of the year and presented as the Student Graduation speaker transferred to Fort Lewis. After his time there he got a programming job with an oil and gas company in Farmington, and now, a number of years later is the lead programmer at the company. He developed a system to remotely monitor gas wells reducing the number of visits that have to be made by company field employees who drive endless miles visiting each of the companies wells.

Another student who graduated from SJC as the Computer Science student of the year and presented as the Student Graduation speaker transferred to New Mexico State University. After graduating from there he got a job programming for a major Fortune 500 company writing code for flight simulators for the U.S. Air Force.

Two professors (in black) and two Computer Science 2007 graduates ( in yellow).

The third student who graduated from SJC as the Computer Science student of the year and presented as the Student Graduation speaker transferred to Stanford University. After his graduation there he went to work for Google where he still works and truly enjoys his job and work environment.

One graduate, also Computer Science student of the year, transferred to New Mexico Tech where he graduated in Computer Science. He now is a Computer Scientist at Sandia Labs.

Many of our graduates transfer to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Many make exceptionally high grades there. One graduated Summa Cum Laude with all A’s (one A-) there. He is now the database administrator for the city of Durango managing all the city government databases from payroll to police to cemetery records and many, many more. He thrives on the daily challenges of the job, and there is an endless supply of those.

Another Fort Lewis graduate who made all A’s and one B works for a local oil and gas company in the IT department and manages their network and installs and maintains their servers and installs all the software used there. He loves his job.

Another Fort Lewis graduate is a programmer in a very specialized area of oil and gas production working for a Farmington company. He is one of 14 programmers in the world doing that sort of programming. He had to teach himself much of what was involed in developing the programs they needed. He was able to do that due to his training at San Juan College and Fort Lewis College which provided him with the skills and confidence to pick up a book, read it, and do what was needed to accomplish his assigned programming task.

Yet another Fort Lewis graduate is lead programmer for another oil and gas company in Farmington. He really likes the job.

Another graduate of that school works locally as the help desk person who trouble shoots all the computer and software problems employees encounter. She is very happy in her job and is outstanding in solving her never ending series of problems.

Another Fort Lewis graduate works for a local oil and gas company in the IT department.

Yet another of their graduates works for a local company which installs computer systems throughout the country.

At this time we have one of our graduates majoring in Computer Science at Fort Lewis who is graduating this summer and looking forward to a career in programming.

One of our graduates who did not transfer to a 4-year school is working as a programmer for another local oil and gas company.

Another student who did not attend a 4-year school is a programmer in a large local business.

One of our Computer Science students now writes software for children.

One of our graduates, who is responsible developing the Navajo/English dictionary the Navajo Word processor program we sell, is now majoring in Computer Science at New Mexico Tech.

There are many other stories of success among our graduates.

You should consider joining our program. With hard work and a subsequent 4-year degree you too may have a very successful career in computing.

Of course there is lots of hard work in our programs. Here are some of our current Computer Science students struggling with an exam.