...am now reaping the benefits of my hard work and dedication, yet there still burns a desire to further explore my educational opportunities. I know in my heart that an MBA from the University at Buffalo will ensure future professional success at GEICO and further develop my potential growth in the workplace. Over the next three years, my career has a well-defined and structured path. Recently, I completed two management-training courses at GEICO, the Associate Development Program and Mentorship Program. These programs have instilled solid leadership skills needed to take my career to the next level. Over the next year, I will complete a supervisor preparation program, leading a small team consisting of ten new hire associates. Following the team’s completion of required goals and training, I will be promoted to a full-time supervisor position at the conclusion of a supervisor preparation program. As supervisor, I will take advantage of my strengths of goal driven, team oriented and hard working to produce consistent and strong results for my team and for the company. By doing so for the next 12-18 months, I will be ready to take on my next challenge at GEICO as a member of the competitive advantage leadership group (CALG) in our corporate office. The completion of the University at Buffalo MBA program is the most critical component for achieving this position. As a member of the CALG team for the next two to three years, I will be conducting process reviews to...
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...Richard B. Chase, Nicholas J. Aquilano, F. Robert Jacobs McGraw-Hill Higher Education ISBN: 0-07-232315-9 COURSE EVALUATION: Attendance 30% Final Assignment 70% Total 100% Case 1/4 BSB, INC.: The Pizza Wars Come to Campus Renee Kershaw, manager of food services at a medium-sized private university in the Southeast, has just had the wind taken out of her sails. She had decided that, owing to the success of her year-old pizza service, the time had come to expand pizza-making operations on campus. However, yesterday the university president announced plans to begin construction of a student center on campus that would house, among other facilities, a new food court. In a departure from past university policy, this new facility would permit and accommodate food-service operations from three private organizations: Dunkin’ Donuts, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. Until now, all food service on campus had been contracted out to BSB, Inc. CAMPUS FOOD SERVICE BSB, Inc., is a large, nationally operated food-services company serving client organizations. The level of service provided varies, depending on the type of market being served and the particular contract specifications. The company is organized into three market-oriented divisions: corporate...
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...of Management Science & Systems 82 Prestonwood Lane School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo East Amherst, NY 14051 Buffalo, New York 14260 Ph: (716) 688-6360 Ph: (716) 645-3258 Fax: (716)645-6117 E-Mail: rramesh@acsu.buffalo.edu Web: http://mgt.buffalo.edu/faculty/academic/systems/faculty/rramesh Education Ph.D. Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) (1985) State University of New York at Buffalo (GPA: 4.0. Awarded Ph.D with Distinction) Advisors: Mark H. Karwan and Stanley Zionts M.Tech. Industrial Engineering (1977) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras B.Tech. Chemical Engineering (1975) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Research Streams • • • • Economics of IT – MSP and Cloud Computing Markets Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies Database Systems and Distributed Computing Supply Chains & Decision Analysis Employment Professor Department of Management Science & Systems School of Management State University of New York at Buffalo (September 1998 - ) Associate Professor Department of Management Science & Systems State University of New York at Buffalo (September, 1990 – September 1998) Assistant Professor Department of Management Science & Systems State University of New York at Buffalo (September, 1984 - September, 1990) 1 Research and Teaching Assistant Doctoral Program in Operations Research Department of Industrial Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo (January, 1981 - September, 1984) Entrepreneur SYMBIOSIS Consulting Madras, India...
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...Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Recycling: Why Should You Do It? Attention I. How many of you actually recycle? Recycling has been a topic that has been brought up and thought about by many different people, but the problem the question of whether people are taking action or not on this. Recycling will save many different very important aspects of the environment and economy. II. By learning how to recycle we will be able to develop a much stronger and healthier environment. III. I would like to encourage my classmates to realize how important recycling is and why they should do it. If you do not recycle, in the future this could potentially have devastating...
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... 2013 Mr. Steven Jones School of Management Undergraduate Program Committee 205 Jacobs Management Center University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Dear Mr. Jones: The UB School of Management undergraduate program has been very successful, innovative and well loved by students. Among all the benefits, students find e-assignments and digital access courses to be extremely convenient, since these can be access through laptops and other electronic devices. While students are enjoying privilege of doing assignments online, they suffer from moving heavy and expensive paper textbooks around the campus. Currently, many colleges benefit from the use of technology. For example, in Northern Michigan University, every student is granted a laptop to improve quality of study. The cost of the laptop is covered in their tuition. In this laptop campus, students can easily access eBooks, course materials, as well as homework assignments through the web, without carrying anything extra. However, in our program, students spend significant amount of money on textbooks every year and receive very little pleasure using them. Some students end up with going through the semester without having a textbook because they cannot afford one or don’t have the time to sit down and read. This often causes negative impact on students’ grades. The best solution of this problem is to build a laptop campus. Collect a one-time laptop fee and return the students with heavily discounted e-textbooks...
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...Gene Marker Identification Targeting Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4), Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1), and Adenosine Triphosphatase 1 Alpha 1 (ATP1A1) Genes: Assessing Their Association With Subclinical Mastitis Cases in Dairy Water Buffaloes, Bubalus bubalis Thesis Proposal Cyndi Candelaria Biendima Patricia Malapit Cabatit Submitted to the Department of Biology College of Arts and Sciences University of the Philippines Manila Padre Faura, Ermita, Manila In partial fulfilment of the requirements for Undergraduate Thesis (BIO 200) TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page1 Table of Contents2 Introduction3 Review of Related Literature6 Proposed Methodology14 Presentation of Results20 Literature Cited22 Line Item Budget26 Project Timeline27 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Cases of intramammary infections such as mastitis in water buffaloes contribute to large annual losses in milk production and net profit for smallholder farmers in the Philippines. Social and economic factors might prevent households from diagnosing, treating, and eliminating from circulation those animals or animal products, such as milk, that are afflicted with mastitis or which came from individuals afflicted with mastitis; this is especially true in the case of the asymptomatic subclinical mastitis, which tends to become chronic and difficult to eradicate by conventional antimicrobial therapies (Brouillette & Malouin, 2005; Ng et al., 2010). With the advent of technology...
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...To: Mayor Byron Brown From: Laura Speier Date: 23 March, 2013 Subject: Parking Modernization Plan for Buffalo Terms for Proposal The Greater Buffalo Development Authority - Lessee and owner proposes a more efficient Parking Modernization Plan for Buffalo. This will be the solution to the problems we have with parking in Buffalo. The public partnered with the city, so the parking system remains in the public realm. The on-street parking will be operated by a contractor - in this case, Meter men, who operates 30 parking systems across the country. Off-street parking will continue to work with buffalo’s facilities will be operated by a contractor, Buffalo’s Finest Parking. The parking has become more and more a problem and we suggest that it is done so that we can service the public’s parking issues. We recommend that you approve the proposal so we can get started before the winter since there are many areas that need to be addressed. Over $20 million in initial capital improvements for meters and Stanford Parking garage * Construct Stanford Parking garage * Immediate on-street improvements * Overall capital investment estimated at $98 million over term of the lease * Term: 30 years on-street, 50 years off-street * Agreement with the City contains operating standards * Ability to alter provisions over time, if necessary, through the Advisory Committee * The City retains the ability to terminate the agreement if the operating standards...
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...Teaching Mathematics to Visual-Spatial Learners Mathematics presents a number of challenges for learners that are challenged with auditory-sequential processing. Many topics in mathematics are often presented within a very verbal classroom environment. Solution methods are commonly presented in a stepwise process and build on previous knowledge. Visual-spatial learners identify with the presentation of an entire idea over a sum of its parts, and so adapting instructional methods with these learners in mind can help contribute to their success. VSLs also value seeing over listening, and actively create visual images when processing speech, so when only auditory queues are available, using very descriptive language is helpful. (Dixon, 1983) Various higher order outcomes revolve around problem solving, which can be a difficult task for anyone facing learning challenges, but for visual learners spatial reasoning can be used to their advantage. Presenting problems in two or three dimensions can allow students to visualize the problem in real space. Using physical manipulative, such as a mira for geometric reflections or algebra tiles for polynomial representations, provide concrete benefits. Pattern seeking and functional reasoning can be native skills in VSLs, so emphasis on graphing functions over strict numerical expressions can provide more meaningful insight into mathematical expressions. However, monotonous tasks like plotting ordered pairs will cause these students to struggle...
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...“In Coddling of the American Mind” microaggression is defined as small acts of aggression, such as word choices that seem to have no spiteful intent. The Article also defines Trigger warnings has a warning that offensive content may be included. As the article states crime rates in the nineteen sixties through the early nineteen nineties grew, causing the generational shift hearing stories of children being abducted triggering the parents to keep a closer eye on their children. A few statistics showed that in 2013 the number of severe mental problems was rising in students also a statistic that was taken in “2014 showed that fifty four percent of college students said they ‘felt overwhelming anxiety’ up from forty nine percent in the same...
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...Community Development Vol. 41, No. 3, July–September 2010, 298–322 Incorporating social justice in tourism planning: racial reconciliation and sustainable community development in the Deep South Alan W. Bartona* and Sarah J. Leonardb a b Downloaded By: [University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY)] At: 06:29 3 November 2010 Social Sciences, Delta State University, DSU Box 3264, Cleveland MS 38733, USA; The College Board, Chicago, USA Tourism can serve as a vehicle for sustainable community development by contributing to equity and social justice. This happens as tourists learn about marginal groups through educational tourism, engage in development projects with host-area residents, undertake pilgrimages that bring greater meaning and cohesiveness to an ethnic identity, or encounter stories that transform their view of social injustice and spur further action to reduce inequities. Tourism planning can produce a sense of reconciliation when it brings historically divided groups together. An example is found in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, where a group of white and African American residents are collaborating to develop tourism projects designed around a narrative of reconciliation, while they use the process of tourism planning to work towards racial reconciliation within their community. This case illustrates strategies tourism planners employ and challenges they face when they envision tourism as more than merely a means of economic growth...
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...I. SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS On March 24, 1989, residents near the waters of Prince William Sound awoke to the catastrophe brought by the tanker Exxon Valdez spilling more than 10 million gallons of crude oil. This incident caught the attention of the public and received many and different criticisms. Eight of eleven cargo tanks were ruptured during the incident. ARLIS or Alaska Resources Library and Information Services with the help of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council released a collection of materials on Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. It included the following information: * The crude oil spread approximately 1, 300 miles. 200 miles were heavily oiled. The impact was obvious while the remaining 1, 100 miles were lightly or very lightly oiled. * Aerial observations were used to determine the size of the oil spill to give immediate response and clean-up activities. It includes the estimation of the thickness and volume of oil on the water. * Exxon spent more than $2.5 billion on clean-up expenses. * Caption Joseph Hazelwood was the captain of the ship, a senior officer. He was convicted of a misdemeanour charge of negligent discharge of oil, fined $50, 00 and sentenced to 1, 000 hours of community service. * Exxon was fined $150 million, it was the largest fine imposed for an environmental crime. The court forgave $125 million in acknowledging Exxon’s cooperation in cleaning up the spill. During the clean-up, Exxon hired thousands of workers through several...
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...entrepreneurship." “Be a Gamer, Save the world” by Jane McGonigal is about how playing games can help the world. McGonigal also wrote about how gaming can improve our lives. "My research over the past decade at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute for the Future has shown that games consistently provide us with the four ingredients that make for a happy and meaningful life: satisfying work, real hope for success, strong social connections and the chance to become a part of something bigger than ourselves." In this quote from the essay, McGonigal argues that people who play games will have happy and meaningful lives....
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...given other fellow student(s) access to my code, script, diagram, etc., in any form. Complete the Picture Troy Baillargeon Kaplan University IT 332 Principles of Information Systems Architecture May 4, 2014 Table of Contents Abstract 4 Introduction 5 Operating System 5 Servers 5 Computers 6 File System 7 Processors 9 Servers 9 Computers 10 Cluster Architecture 11 Network Architecture 12 Network Topology 14 Conclusion 15 References 16 Abstract This paper will discuss the suggested solution for our new network architecture. With our insurance company moving to new headquarters in Denver, Colorado and the expansion of our company to include satellite offices on both the east and west coast we will need to have a better system architecture which would include new processors, new operating system for our computers and servers, proper data backup, cluster architecture and use of RAID. All these details are important to make sure we have the proper infrastructure in place to continue to have high availability and productive employees. Introduction With the expansion of our office into multiple locations, it is vital that we set up our architecture correctly so that we optimize our ability to process work and keep our data safe and secure. There are many options out there and many of the solutions would work just fine, but we need to make sure the options we decide on work best together...
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...My thematic pathway consists of three classes: Introduction to Music, Introduction to Sociology, and Digital System. The first two classes were taken at John Jay College and the last one was taken in my first semester at Buffalo University. These classes came together to qualify my global pathway under the topic of Design and the Build Environment. Nevertheless, I am still not sure how they assimilate into the topic of developing our critical thinking skill and analytical skill to approach problem solving. Furthermore, it really gave me a tough time to make these classes correspond to each other. However, I do intend on connecting these classes together and explain how these classes correspond to each other and how they have made an influence...
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...College tuition price is like buying a new car every year. The Average college tuition is around $30000 - $60000 Per year. The average car price is around $30,000 to $50000 for a new car. College is too expensive sometimes, especially for parents that earn $30000 per year. College will become their yearly income. The Problem this is is because others don’t want to have a big debt, then they just not attend college. The Effect is later in life when they don’t have a good yearly income, as they would with a college degree. College tuitions cause people not to go to college. Since the tuitions affect the ones who can’t afford the college tuition. A possible solution would be cutting the tuitions by at least 50%. College is too expensive...
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