{"id":2684,"date":"2021-03-09T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uptimes\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2021-09-15T08:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:36:01","slug":"thank-you-andy-peterson-for-your-35-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uptimes\/thank-you-andy-peterson-for-your-35-years-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Andy Peterson for your 35 years of service!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Andy\u00a0will be retiring and his\u00a0final day with ICIT will be Friday, March 12th. On behalf of the entire ICIT organization, we would like to say thank you for 35 years of service and dedication to UW-Whitewater. With 2 years at UW-Osh Kosh, that is a total of 37 years with UW-System!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200bAndy’s first position at UW-Whitewater was being a Cobol Applications programmer for the Financial Aid Office. He was responsible for the installation and integration of one of the campus\u2019s first large third party software products that processed student financial aid information. The software was from the company, Sigma Systems, and called Student Aid Management (SAM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second position Andy undertook at UW-Whitewater was what was called System Programming. This position was a technical support position and at the time UWW was still using computer punch cards and lots of green & white bar paper. His position was created when two of the three key punch people left just as UWW was to migrate away from punch cards. He is probably the only person to help migrate two UW campuses away from computer punch cards. His position spent much time expanding the IBM green screen\/3270 terminal environment, this eventually gave way to integrating IBM, DEC, Wang, Gandalf, token ring, fddi, atm, and Ethernet systems. Eventually Ethernet became the unifying environment and replaced all others. This is the position that he is currently involved in as he has gone from 80 character punch cards to 40 Gig Ethernet while working here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among some of Andy’s many accomplishments while here at Whitewater:<\/p>\n\n\n\n