My career at WGBH Educational Foundation

My first job out of college was with WGBH Educational Foundation. I started there as a Developer in the IT department. I spent two years with the organization; it was pretty exciting and eventful.

What Does WGBH do ?

WGBH is a public broadcasting organization based in Boston, MA. In New England GBH has various television channels most notable are WGBH 2 and WGBH 44. GBH can also be found on the radio at WGBH 89.7 and on Cape and Islands NPR stations.
Besides operating the tv and the radio stations GBH produces more of the PBS prime-time and Web lineup than any other station. For the Full line up of programs and furthur information check the website.

What did I do ?

As a member of the Software Development Group I worked on several Java Enterprise projects.

* Participated in designing, architechting and Developing a web application using the following technologies : Struts, Hibernate , JSP , JDBC, Tomcat and MySQL .

* Designed, Architected and Developed a Middleware using the following technologies : Spring Framework , Quartz , Tomcat , JDBC , Informix and Oracle.

* Introduced and Installed Jroller, A Blog Server and Bugzilla, A Bug tracking system.

* I created a MAC Dashboard widget specifically for the gbh TV schedules. Technologies used : JavaScript , AJAX , MAC Widget API. WGBH TV Schedules

Conclusion

Going into this job i didn't know what to expect. Result , I contributed heavily to a web application project, I wrote my first middleware application from ground up and did some other exciting little projects.