You are curious about SharePoint and KPI dashboards. You are still trying to determine the difference between SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint 2010, WSS and MOSS. You are not quite sure what KPI stands for. You also don’t have 7-10 extra minut...
Cesar Pena: Senior Project Engineer You have had the opportunity to live and work in several different countries; what have those experiences been like? It broadens your view of the world and opens your way of thinking. You d...
Eric Anderson, Project Engineer You were a TA in graduate school. What was the experience of teaching classes like, and what lessons have you carried into your career? A class about PLCs (programmable logic controller) was my favorite as ...
DMC Employee Spotlight is a new feature for our company newsletter. Each month we will take a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the members who make up Team DMC. Kristie Simon, Project Engineer Can you...
Team DMC competed for the fifth straight year in the Shamrock Shuffle, an 8K (4.97 mile) race in downtown Chicago. This year the weather was a little wet and chilly but nowhere near as bad as last year. There was a lot of internal and external com...
Team DMC has once again made a strong showing at a Chicago area athletic event. As a team, we placed 8th overall out of nearly 150 teams. Several of us even improved our times drastically from last year's competition. DMC is always looking to ...
DMC was happy to be a part of the FIRST FTC (First Tech Challenge) high school robot competition here in Chicago. John Sullivan and myself with Chris Weaver of NI braved the fierce field of competition to assist as, you guessed it, ...
DMC held our periodic all-day off-site company meeting on February 8th at Melrose Park Grand Prix. Business topics covered included: Checklists - motivated by the book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. A simp...
A lot of us here at DMC like to get outdoors and stay active, even during these brutal Midwestern winters. This Saturday, five DMC employees, including myself, braved the cold to spend a great day out at Alpine Valley ski resort. Jody Koplo,...
I am getting questions like "you are from Russia, it must be cold there" quite often for obvious reasons. Despite the fact that Russia is huge and includes geographic zones from subtropics to Arctic circle I've decided to compare climat...