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My name is John Morris. I am a musician turned programmer turned system administrator currently employed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, but on the weekends, I let my retro 70's ponytail down and play rock and roll with a local "Oldies" band called Streetkar. I was born in December of 1952 and was reared in a little community on the outskirts of Birmngham, Alabama called Minor Heights. I attended McDonald Chapel Elementary School, and later graduated from Minor High School. I studied music from the time I was 6 years old and upon graduation from high school, went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano from Birmingham-Southern College. After Graduation from college in 1976, I went to work with my Dad in his dental laboratory business. I worked there for 9 years, all the while playing in local rock and roll bands. My Dad retired in 1985. I didn't want to continue in the dental laboratory business, so I went back to school part time and learned a little about computers and programming them. The rest is history. From 1985-88 I was employed by the Bruno's food store chain, working in their data processing department as first, a data processing clerk and then later as the night shift computer operator. Beginning in January of 1989, I went to work for Cycare Systems, Inc. as a Junior Programmer. Cycare closed it's Birmingham office 8 months after I started and that's when I went to work for Blue Cross Blue Shield. I managed to progress up the ranks in the Systems Development department as a Cobol programmer until I maxed out as a Systems Analyst. Then I moved into the Claims Department to help inplement a new imaging system, and that is where I remain today. Administering that original system, along with a couple of others that I helped put together over the last 5 years. |
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