St. Jude Medical

For those who wonder, yes, it's HDR. My first HDR. Far from perfect for now - there are noticeable merge artifacts here and there. Still, it's quite amazing what a computer can do to photos taken by an equivalent 4 year old point-and-shooter. Curious? Here's a good tutorial. Anyway, a bit about what I actually do in this building. St. Jude Medical is a US-based medical devices company focused on artifical pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. My job, along with a manager, two permanent engineers and another summer worker, is to conduct and analyze tests on the batteries used by these devices. There are a lot of numbers to crunch in Excel, but since the second week I've turned myself from a data monkey into a code monkey. As I have learned since then: you can't even scratch the surface of Excel without diving into some VBA macro programming. Anyway, I think I can say that much without getting into trouble (pacemakers use batteries; batteries need to be tested; tests are analysed in Excel. I don't think that's a secret to anyone).

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