Daniel LaRoe:  

Life After High School, I went to college at ACC (Anch Community College). For the next ten years, I alternated between working and taking classes. I began as a Political Science major with a minor in Foreign Languages, but after an introductory class in Data Processing, I realized that I loved computers and changed my major to Computer Information Systems (CIS). Once I got my Associates Degree in CIS, I moved to Fairbanks to finish my Bachelor's in Computer Science at UAF. As a student, I got a job helping to build the University's Library computing system, GNOSIS. Several years later, I moved to UAF's Administrative Computing department, where I helped build UAF's Purchasing Management Information System (PMIS). When the purchasing system functions were taken over by the Statewide Administration of the University, I built the first World Wide Web server at UAF (tied with the Statewide Administration's web server for the first at the University), which is now the system you see at the UAF main website. I now work with four other System Administrators to maintain the myriad central computer servers at UAF. During the past thirty years, I h...Expand for more