Foreign Languages, Pharmaceuticals, and Pascal with Renee Richards

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Bill Kennedy

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5 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Renee Richards is a Programmer Analyst for Carepoint, Inc. Renee has been a software developer for two years after spending most of her life as a pharmacy technician. We hear about how she made the tough decision to make a career change and the tricks she used to pull it off successfully. It just goes to show it’s never too late to get into tech if you really want to. Connect with Renee: https://twitter.com/Renee7076 Mentioned in today’s episode: Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasca...

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Bill Kennedy with the Arden Labs podcast.
0:10.0	And today our special guest is Renee Richards.
0:14.0	Hey, Renee, how's it going?
0:16.0	Hey, how are you?
0:19.0	Everything, at least here in Miami, everything is good. I can't complain.
0:24.0	Where are you coming from today?
0:27.1	Charleston, South Carolina.
0:28.8	Oh, you just had the big PGA tournament over the weekend there in South Carolina.
0:34.8	I guess.
0:42.4	I guess. All right. So on this podcast, we like to talk to our guests and get a little bit of a background and a story on kind of where they are today and
0:50.5	how they got there. So why don't you give everybody like the two minutes, like two
0:56.3	minutes of kind of what you're doing today here in tech? Currently I'm a programmer analyst. This
1:03.1	is actually my first tech job. The company that I started with, they started me off in support,
1:09.4	and then I made the transition to basically a programmer
1:12.2	analyst as a developer.
1:14.3	But they wanted us to kind of understand the product before we, you know, started working on it.
1:19.5	It's a pharmacy management system.
1:21.8	It does everything from processing prescriptions, like dispensing.
1:26.4	We interact with third-party systems to take payments,
1:30.1	inventory, dealing with insurance and stuff like that. So we build apps that connect with the
1:36.2	APIs to do those functions. But the system that you're running on, is that running on like,
1:43.1	I don't know, like an AS- 400 or is this all like new computing platforms?
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