Sentences with phrase «years at different companies»

I have worked as a call center representative for 3 years at different companies.

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Miller, chief investment officer at LMM, said he thinks the embattled drugmaker is «a completely different company» than the one that was under severe fire for jacking up drug prices, and could see returns of 25 percent to 30 percent per year over the next five years.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Being able to relate to two different cultures also proved to be an asset to Gimenez as he plotted the direction for his new company, which landed at No. 74 on this year's Inc. 5000.

«We look very different today than five years ago — for example, clinical and technology professionals are the first and third largest job categories across UnitedHealth Group — and we will look different again five years from now as we continue to evolve at an accelerated pace,» UnitedHealth CEO David Wichmann said on the company's first - quarter conference call.

Because this information is found on proxy statements that companies issue at different times throughout the year, some totals reflect security costs for either 2015 or 2016, depending on when they most recently filed.

«Videoconferencing is a whole different experience today than it was a few years ago, and it's more affordable, which is driving it down» to smaller companies, says Brett Shockley, CEO at Spanlink Communications, a Minneapolis communications reseller that markets videoconferencing and other communications networks to small and mid-sized businesses.

Besides clearing this year's bar of at least $ 5.1 billion in annual revenue, the companies in the Fortune 500 freshman class come from widely disparate backgrounds and took many different paths to arrive to the list.

And so have at least two other entrepreneurs who made it to No. 1 and — in different years — placed companies elsewhere in the ranking.

At any point earlier in the year, however, the two company records will look very different.

When asked which companies scored the highest by seven different criteria, Canadians ranked Tim Hortons at No. 10 this year (up from 29th last year), behind international heavyweights such as Walt Disney, Lego and Google, but ahead of big names like Honda, Apple and Amazon.

In the next 7 years I've grown a bunch of blogs in different niches, worked at a few companies and launched a couple profitable online businesses.

Follows Kevin Simpson, a second - year Harvard Business School 1990 student, through his job search to his final decision between two very attractive but different job offers: a job as an international marketing manager at Eli Lilly and Co., a leading multinational health product corporation; and a position as the assistant to the president of Haemonetics, an entrepreneurial company in the biomedical equipment field.

If you look at it, Panera has continued to transform itself - six different transformations over the 36 years I have run this company.

Sustainability Reporting: A Glass Lewis Issue Report discusses different sustainability reporting frameworks that have gained popularity of over the last several years and shareholder initiatives aimed at improving the quality of sustainability - related information provided by companies.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«Every organization is at a different point in the sustainability journey so our program allows businesses to use their own baselines to determine a set of goals based on their region, operation and other factors, and then focus their resources on the practices that will make the most difference for their company, the environment and the community, continually improving year after year.»

Both Jones and Woodcock entered the area of regulatory affairs from pure science backgrounds and attribute their extensive knowledge in those other fields to years of on - the - job training as they worked at different levels of their respective companies.

Through the TCIP, interns gain exposure to technology commercialization from at least three different perspectives: The 2 - year internship consists of three placements, each of 8 months» duration, in a technology - transfer office, a venture - capital organization, and a high - technology company.

«This is such a diverse organization, we want people who bring a different perspective and understanding, so we can expand globally,» explains Susan Bunz, human resources and corporate services vice president at Pioneer Hi - Bred, a Dupont business, the plant genetics company that ranked # 4 this year (a big leap from # 19 in 2010).

Tim Maclachlan, a postdoc at Penn who participated in one consulting project with Port company Plantgenix last year, said of the experience, «It really was something completely different from bench - top research.

«The rules of the game are different, and I think you really have to have a sense of who you are and how you like to do things as a scientist,» says molecular biologist Neil Howell, who spent 30 years in a university setting before becoming vice president for research at MitoKor, a San Diego, California, biotech company, in 2001.

«My internships helped me during my master's as I had already had 3 months of experience using different equipment and writing a lab book,» says Mike Stock, who began a Ph.D. in geology this year after doing internships with the Atomic Weapons Establishment, the international oil and natural gas company Petro - Canada, and a research assistantship at the University of Southampton.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

I started a new role at the start of this year (same company just totally different role / team) and had to revamp my wardrobe so it was a little more professional haha!

Each year when we participate at different dating and matchmaking conferences or when I communicate with my colleagues at matchmaking alliance, diolli.com is always the only Ukrainian matchmaking company.

The essential Kartemquin Films («Hoop Dreams») pops up twice this year at Sundance in two different forms but with works that both capture the company's deep humanism.

The Blue Oval is a regular presence at SEMA, and this year's no different, as the company is planning to unleash as many as 50 different custom projects at the event.

The next version of the Suzuki Sidekick will be larger, more powerful and more refined, the company said during the Tokyo Motor Show.Known in Japan as the Escudo, the next Sidekick's shape is much different from that of its predecessor.The vehicle's front grille and rear quarter window area hint mildly at the Kia Sportage, but the next Sidekick also has strong shoulder lines and a squared - off roof line.The Sidekick, scheduled to arrive in the United States next year, will have ventilated disk brakes all around.

In this year's Digital Startup Alley at BookExpo America, nineteen different companies featured their new products, some of which are live and others which are still in beta.

The fun thing about the Icarus company is that they will discontinue production of a model but still be selling the remaining supply for years on their website so they have like 10 different models for sale at any given time (many with only slight differences)

More than 40 companies, individuals and products have been shortlisted across eight different categories at this year's FutureBook Awards.

«But, I think now that we've had that initial blast and got our heads around things, we will start to see significant moves, and I think you can start to see the steps being taken here and there by different companies to put together... and it's certainly the case with PRH as we've spent the last year and a half creating an entirely fresh team at the centre of the business that have been looking at these questions... I'd hestitate to call what's happened a merger because in our function it's constant renewal, in that sense I think publishing has always been disruptive.»

Huawei is best known for making smartphones at a variety of different price points from entry to high - end, but over the last few years the company has also worked to build itself a name in the tablet space with its MediaPad range.

I set 4 goals for this portfolio in 2015: receive $ 1,500 in dividends, diversify across all sectors, own 30 different companies and have a portfolio value of at least $ 100,000.00 by the end of the year.

Barry Paperno, who worked in the credit industry for 40 years and now writes about credit in his blog, Speaking of Credit, explained that I was looking at least three different products, created by different companies.

The company offers various promotions at different times of the year, so you may want to check their website periodically to see if there is a new deal on your preferred plan.

To calculate the added cost in purchasing comprehensive and / or collision coverage we looked at annual insurance quotes for a 30 year old male from New York across four different insurance companies, and the ten best - selling vehicles in the US.

In 2016 the S&P 500 index switched out 29 companies which made up the index at the start of the year and replaced them with 29 different companies.

Over the past few years companies such as Asus, Google and Samsung have introduced tablets in different sizes, at different prices and with different accessories to gain a share of the market.

If they've been a Loan Officer for 10 - years, but have been at 10 different companies, you should ask why?

-- Between Jan & May last year, I published individual reviews / valuations for 73 different Irish companies, and kept a file recording each share price (at time of evaluation) & price target to properly assess performance.

At other times, she went with friends» recommendations and bought a mutual fund with one company one year, then a different fund the next year.

I have some mutual fund shares that I bought directly from a mutual fund company many years ago spread out over 20 + purchases at different prices.

Many women spent years in a profession, stayed home with children for months or years, and went back to work part time, or at a different company, or in an entirely different field.

As evidence, just look at Next Gen International Corp., which manufactures all - natural cat litters made from different species of wood; CEO Stan Yamamoto says the company has seen double - digit annual growth every year since 2005, when it was founded — even despite the poor economy.

I switched from a different insurance company that jacked up my rates 18 % in one year and my dog was 9 years old at the time.

After completing his studies in Tourism at the Americana Institute, he worked for several different local companies first as a porter, Assistant Guide and then, for the last 8 years, as a Head Guide.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

Specifically I started in QA in San Francisco in 2005, and was a tester for a year and a half at a couple of different companies.