Colton Bybee

2/7/2015

Ist

Module 11

 

            For this assignment, I have chosen to write my IT job interview on a man named Mike Wiser. For Mike Wiser’s job, he creates apps from his computer for cell phones. He is the product manager which means he is heavily involved in the programing for the apps. One thing that I really think is awesome is that, even though he gets to work home Monday through Friday, his brain is working twenty four seven on new ideas for apps and ways to get people to use the apps he has already made. Here is a little back ground on Mike. He graduated from Brigham Young University with his bachelors in engineering. Right after graduating, Mike landed a job with Iomega and help develop their overseas department traveling all over Asia. He also helped out with creating new ways to store memory to things such as floppy disks and SD Cards.

            Before sitting down to interview Mike, I did a little research about apps and how to make them and what all goes into the process. As I started to do the research, I was amazed at all the pieces of the puzzle that have to come together in order to make an app for a phone and the storage that has to be used so that a person could continue to use the app daily. For example, let’s take a basic gaming app. It first starts off as an idea. The next thing you have to do is draw it out and come up with an initial plan. The company then has to hire all the right people for the process to begin, including a product manager, computer programmers, IT people and the list goes on and on. This is just the beginning of the whole process. There still has to be someone who to run all the data and servers to hold all the users and make sure the app runs successfully, not to mention all the tweaks and fixes that are constantly being made for the app to run smoother.

            As Mike and I sat down for the interview I first asked him about what drives him every morning to want to make apps. Mike said “I have always loved coming up with new ideas and watching them come to life” he goes on to say “every day I get to turn on my computer and just do what I love”. Mike’s right. Many of use to work each day and have limits on what we can or can’t do, but Mike is always able to start with an idea each day and then he takes that idea and expands on it to see if it works. The next thing I asked Mike was what the hardest part about his job was. He said “It can be hard sometimes to get all the pieces of the puzzle meaning all the people involved on the same page” I think this part of jobs and of life in general is important is always a little difficult, especially when we are not all on the same page. But Mike said “it is also good to have conference calls and hear why people don’t agree with others ideas. By doing that we can come up with a lot of ideas and some may or may not work for one specific app but might be the start of another one.”

            I really enjoyed interviewing Mike and, by doing so, I was able to learn a lot about the IT world and how to make apps. As I open apps on my phone from now on, I think I will think more about the process of what went into making the app and how it is running and operating as I use it.