My name is Thomas Daniel George and I’m sometimes referred to as being the guy with three first names. I hate it, but most people seem to get some sort of thrill from it so I deal. I was born on April 10, 1986 at 2:29PM in Worcester, MA. I only lived in Massachusetts for six weeks, so I like to say I’m a New Hampshire native.

I’ve spent much of my life in Charlestown or Claremont, but moved to Keene in October of 2008 to be closer to work. I work for a company called C&S Wholesale Grocers, the second largest wholesale food distributor. They supply a number of grocery chains, including A&P, Stop & Shop, Shaw’s, Dagostino’s, Bruno’s, Bi-Lo, Demoula’s, and Target to name a few. I’ve been employed by them since August of 2006. I started in their warehouse in Brattleboro, VT as a grocery selector, and in June of 2007 I was lucky enough to find an IT internship opportunity in their office. I worked furiously to learn the various aspects of the job and in October of 2007 I was offered a salaried position as an Associate Programmer/Analyst.

I work on the enterprise data warehouse team (eDW), which is a Teradata database. One of my responsibilities is data integration (ETL) development. I utilize a combination of DataStage and hand written Basic Teradata Query (BTEQ) scripts to achieve this task. Since we have ETL processes running virtually around the clock, I also participate in the on call rotation for production support. I’ve also done some Oracle ApEx development, written some Unix shell scripts, and tested various systems after a major upgrade occurred. One of the bigest projects I’ve completed is the Oracle ApEx Service Level Adjustments and Comments application. It allows buyers to enter adjustments and comments which then appear on a Flash MicroStrategy Dashboard which our customers (the grocery stores we supply) see.

I’ve found some success, but I don’t think I would be where I am today without my grandparents. It’s easy for me to say that, because it’s obvious that if a component is removed from your life it will have a different outcome; but I truly believe my grandparents have made me who I am. I’ve received some positive and negative shaping and molding over the years from various other sources, but my grandparents have always been there for me, have always loved me, and have always been supportive no matter what. I hope they know that even though I don’t get to see them as much, I feel truly blessed to have them in my life. They have often hoped that when I have kids they are as obnoxious and disobedient as I once was. I only hope that when I have grandchildren, I can be the grandparents to my grandchildren that they were to me.