Sentences with phrase «spent some years as»

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

The two have already swapped staff in a number of cases, including Gawker editor John Cook, who spent a year as editor of First Look before returning to Gawker, and Alex Pareene, who worked at First Look before returning to Gawker.

«There's definitely a cap on growth at that airport,» says Steve Silverhart of HUBS Aviation Consulting, who spent a year as ground services manager at Billy Bishop, which handled two million travellers last year.

He spent years as a web developer and took a short detour into carpet cleaning.

Wesner spent years as a travelling book salesman, developing a specialty in Amish communities.

Having spent the past 12 years living and working in 10 countries on four continents, she is spending a year as an international student attending the executive MBA program at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Nikolay spent years as a currency trader with Credit Suisse so he understands the absurd level of fees charged by the current system.

After school, he spent a year as a stringer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, then moved to Texas to take a job as a metro reporter for the Ft. Worth Star - Telegram.

We asked how he and cofounder Michael Cheung — a McKinsey alum who more recently spent a year as a senior director with Tencent Holdings — managed to put the fund together and what they are aiming to do.

«We are proud of the robust and diverse faith outreach program employed by the Democratic Party that begins with volunteer faith captains in precincts all across the country and ends with a Chairman who spent a year as a missionary and has made faith outreach among our highest priorities as a Party,» he said, referring to DNC chairman Tim Kaine.

Spent years as a pastor frustrating myself with programs.

Additionally, Deya spent a year as an exchange student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

After spending a year as the Australasian Legal Counsel for a global packaging company, she returned to Adelaide to commence with Accolade Wines as the legal counsel for Australia.

This was my first experience being involved directly with foodservice after spending years as a golf professional.

He spent a year as TCU linebackers coach, then two in the same role at Arkansas before landing with McElwain in 2015.

Calhoun returned to Air Force to coach his alma mater after spending a year as offensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, in part because «I wanted to see, playing in a major conference (the Mountain West), if there were some years you could go to bowl games.»

Leonhard retired after 2014, spent a year as basically a staff volunteer for UW in 2015, then landed his first official gig — Wisconsin DBs coach — last fall.

To us it means spent some years as a good quality CD.

He spent years as a Freedom Rider, working with different groups to fight Jim Crow and the racism that makes up so much of the fabric of American history.

It never got that bad for Moore, but both spent years as the only threatening target on a team that had lousy QBs.

He has been head coach at Flanagan for the past three seasons after spending a year as defensive coordinator and played his high school ball at Hialeah - Miami Lakes.

Cech has fallen behind Thibaut Courtois in the pecking order at Chelsea this season but, at 32, he remains one of the Premier League's top «keepers and has made it clear he will seek a transfer in the summer rather than spend another year as an understudy.

She spent a year as parliamentary under secretary of state for public health and innovation before losing her Oxford West and Abingdon seat in the 2017 general election.

You spend years as a Naval Officer, tough Federal Prosecutor, and as a lawyer who took on Wall Street on behalf of thousands of defrauded investors, holding company officers accountable by making them pay out of their own pockets.

A system like this would discourage saving, the way to have the most available spending money would be to spend it every year as fast as you make it to avoid any extra tax on income.

David Grandeau, an Albany - area consultant who spent years as the state's top lobbying regulator, is advising the authority on «updating and amending» its code of ethics and financial - disclosure policies, according to Steve Coleman, a Port Authority spokesman.

Before that, he spent a year as the executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter school and education reform group.

Before taking that job, she spent a year as a state's attorney in Vermont, which is equivalent to an assistant district attorney in New York.

She spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at the Georg - August University in Göttingen, Germany, studying microbiology and traveling.

He then spent a year as a legal advocate for the homeless in New York City, cementing his conviction to make a difference in the world — somehow.

Glover, a senior sustainable agricultural systems research adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), spent years as a researcher at the Land Institute in Kansas.

I did well enough that when I was 17 I was selected to spend a year as an exchange student in the United States.

After spending years as a model, not knowing where her clothes came from («I was just unconsciously getting dresses every day,» she says), Dawn was inspired to start a company that told a story.

DowntoEarth.com was started by Jacob Solotaroff who spent a year as the Director of Product Management and Member Integrity at Match.

Stan is somewhat diminutive, with a permanent look of aggression (one wonders if he's spent years as the wingman who fraternizes with Richard's leftovers), while Dimitri is overweight and nearly mute.

Gary Oldman spent years as one of Hollywood's most quietly celebrated character actors.

The «Twilight» saga tainted his image as he spent years as a twinkling in the sunlight vampire that makes constipated reactionary faces.

Kenneth Longergan's quasi-masterpiece spent years as an unfinished film before emerging as one of the critical causes celebre of the 21st century.

After spending years as an actor, stuntman and stunt coordinator on various blockbusters, Leitch kicked off a career as a second unit director with 2003's In Hell, and a decade later, he snagged the main director's chair for himself overseeing John Wick.

In 1989, Adrian Hall passed the torch to Anne Bogart, who spent a year as artistic director before resident acting company member and associate director Richard Jenkins assumed the job for the next four years.

Prior to joining HGSE, Deming spent a year as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

She spent a year as an assistant principal in nearby Arlington County.

Though Bersin's undergraduate degree at Harvard was in government, and he spent years as a corporate lawyer and federal prosecutor, he made a career shift to education in 1998 when a group of San Diego civic leaders asked him to consider becoming the school superintendent in that city.

Singer had just spent a year as a Fisher Fellow in a program run by the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation in San Francisco, training designed to turn him into a school principal with an entrepreneur's skill set.

I started as a day to day substitute and then spent a year as a long term substitute in a 4th grade classroom and a 2nd grade classroom.

Mr. Wallace also spent a year as an assistant kindergarten teacher in Columbus, Ohio where he helped create lesson plans and educate children with elementary subjects.

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Previously, she spent years as a community organizer working on housing justice, school reform, and electoral, state, and presidential campaigns including the Obama Campaign in 2008.

Before becoming principal at Barton, Carter spent a year as a «principal - in - residence,» or apprentice principal, at Dodge, where he implemented a literacy curriculum, helped draw up the budget, and participated in meetings with teachers, among other activities.

After high school, like many aspiring teachers, she spent a year as a classroom aide to help boost her odds of getting accepted.