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    {"id":20054,"date":"2023-10-10T18:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crodev.site\/viedu_dev\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2023-10-10T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:06:58","slug":"full-circle-moments-a-spotlight-on-michael-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crodev.site\/viedu_dev\/full-circle-moments-a-spotlight-on-michael-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Circle Moments: A Spotlight on Office Staff Member Michael Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='flex_column av-i8vz7a-58fdb16e5633ba49c2fe8248dbc75316 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div '   ><p><div  class='hr av-lnko15bg-04fcf6b543b12065a2ffe5cb9e918ccd hr-default  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first  av-small-hide av-mini-hide'><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lnko1bh4-8e44d8a6bdc120ab6d7c4cf94cc42df2\">\n.avia-image-container.av-lnko1bh4-8e44d8a6bdc120ab6d7c4cf94cc42df2 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-lnko1bh4-8e44d8a6bdc120ab6d7c4cf94cc42df2 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-20056 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-20056 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/crodev.site\/viedu_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mike-miller-254x300.png\" alt='Michael Miller (staff member) in a red plaid shirt smiles for a staff photo.' title='mike miller'  height=\"300\" width=\"254\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crodev.site\/viedu_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mike-miller-254x300.png 254w, https:\/\/crodev.site\/viedu_dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/mike-miller.png 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lnko4zw4-3e6d7105d79a09a0b9cf02b5ead561cf'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8503500 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8503500\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #002d72;\">Full Circle Moments: A Spotlight on Office Staff Member Michael Miller<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d11811 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1d11811\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>In April of 2009, Michael Miller started working at Visions as a Programmer I. Three years later, he left Visions to take a job in Silicon Valley, working for a gaming company called PlayForge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a back-end server engineer and worked on a few different games like Zombie Farm, Eat Eat Hooray, Tree World and Zombie Farm Battles,\u201d shares Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Saban Brands, an intellectual property company known for The Power Rangers, had bought PlayForge, but subsequently shut down the studio and sold off its assets. Michael spent another six months with the company, then went to work for a women\u2019s apparel company called Tobi.<\/p>\n<p>Working in order fulfillment and warehousing, Michael found that he didn\u2019t particularly care for that type of work, or the people he was working for. So, after getting back in touch with some former colleagues, he returned to Visions as a Programmer II and worked his way up to his current role of Technology Services Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked in two different industries during his few years away, Michael saw some stark differences between companies like PlayForge and Tobi and organizations like Visions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a game company, it\u2019s about money. With the women\u2019s apparel company, I said, \u2018What am I here for?\u2019\u201d shares Michael. \u201cIt\u2019s not like there\u2019s anything wrong with those companies, I just didn\u2019t find fulfillment in the work itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, almost 10 years after coming back to Visions, Michael sees how impactful and important the work that we do is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho and what we\u2019re serving is much more localized,\u201d he says.\u00a0<strong>\u201cMy favorite part about working here is the mission, the projects, and the team.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #002d72;\">\u201cThe great irony of my life is that I\u2019m working here.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">Believe it or not, Michael was not a good student. In his junior year of high school, he got sent to a continuation school, and, because it was framed so negatively back then, he did everything he could to return to his old school.\u00a0What he didn\u2019t realize at the time was that the continuation school perfectly fit his needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\u201cI thrived at the continuation school,\u201d states Michael. \u201cThey let me do a lot of independent work. I felt much more engaged and well-suited to that type of learning style, but,\u00a0because of how the whole thing was presented, and my own 16 year-old immaturity, I couldn\u2019t see how good it was for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">One year after Michael graduated from high school, Visions opened. Now, as someone who has worked at the organization for over 12 years, Michael sees how a school like Visions, and a program like our <a href=\"https:\/\/crodev.site\/viedu_dev\/independent-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent Study Academy<\/a>, was exactly what he needed in high school.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><strong>\u201cI can see what we\u2019re offering to kids and going, \u2018That is what I needed\u2019,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0shares Michael.\u00a0<strong>\u201cStudents can come here without the stigma of an \u2018independent study\u2019 program.<\/strong>\u00a0I can still feel the shame I felt during that time, and I want to make sure the kids have the opportunity to experience this without those feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">After high school, Michael joined the Marines and spent three years in Okinawa as a telephone switchboard technician. Then, he returned home to pursue a degree in Computer Programming, first at <a href=\"https:\/\/arc.losrios.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American River College<\/a> and then at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Davis<\/a>. Despite his efforts however, he struggled to pass the, as Michael put it, \u201cnon-technical\u201d classes, necessary to graduate and did not receive his degree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\u201cI\u2019m actually really bad at school. The great irony of my life is that I\u2019m working here,\u201d he jokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">But eventually, with the support of his manager and Visions&#8217; HR Department, Michael returned to UC Davis and completed his degree while still working full-time at Visions. Now, he uses his \u201ctechnical\u201d expertise to lead our amazing IT team.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><span style=\"color: #002d72;\">Projects, PCs &amp; Pastries<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">Michael is most proud of two projects that he\u2019s worked on here at Visions,\u00a0<strong>the <a href=\"https:\/\/crodev.site\/viedu_dev\/home\/launchpad-student-support-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LPAD<\/a> rewrite that took place in 2018 and the transferring of LPAD to Amazon Web Services over the summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\u201cOur team looked at every aspect of LPAD and either rewrote it or got rid of it. We redid the entire system to be a more modern platform,\u201d explains Michael. \u201cWe also transferred LPAD to AWS, [which was] taking the server infrastructure and putting it into Amazon\u2019s cloud. This allows us to scale it a lot more and handle a larger load of users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">Aside from his work projects, Michael likes to spend his time gaming on his PC \u2013 Starfield, Fallout, MMO, Skyrim and Subnautica specifically. He also loves cooking and is venturing more into baking, recently taking a five day pastry class in the South of France on an anniversary trip with his wife. He would also love to get back into an older hobby of his, scuba diving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">Whether it\u2019s playing on computers at home or at work, Michael has found fulfillment again in what he\u2019s doing, and credits his team and the organization for helping him get back to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve been here long enough that I\u2019ve seen so much organizational growth and how much we\u2019ve not just grown, but improved,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0says Michael. \u201cI want to call out the team. 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