{"id":4285,"date":"2019-02-01T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digm.drexel.edu\/uxid\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2019-01-29T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:18:28","slug":"lee-dash-class-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/2019\/02\/01\/lee-dash-class-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Dash &#8211; Class of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What are your thoughts about Drexel now that you have been in industry for a while?<\/h3>\n<div>Drexel has such an advantage over other schools in the Philadelphia area in the form of their co-op program.\u00a0 The skills, lessons, and insight gained from even a single six month co-op is invaluable to an undergraduate student looking to start their career.\u00a0 I was personally very lucky in that regard to have a great co-op experience that turned into a great career&#8211;I&#8217;m essentially still working for the same company!\u00a0 Starting as an interactive designer shortly after graduation, I&#8217;ve learned and progressed over the years to my current role of VP, User Experience.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>What do you like about the industry you work in?<\/h3>\n<div>I work for a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/apothecom.com\/\">ApotheCom<\/a> which is a medical communications agency serving clients in the pharmaceutical industry.\u00a0 As a medical agency, our focus is communicating scientific knowledge and findings to health care providers and other stakeholders.\u00a0 Knowing that our work could have a positive impact on a patient and their life is extremely rewarding.\u00a0 Additionally, our company and the industry as a whole is very global, and as such, I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to travel all over the world to support my colleagues and our clients.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>What is one quote that describes you?<\/h3>\n<div>I&#8217;m not sure I have a quote that describes me per se, but the great Spock once said,\u00a0&#8220;Change is the essential process of all existence.&#8221;\u00a0 That applies well to our field, specifically the technology and development side of things.\u00a0 While I was at Drexel we had several courses on Adobe (Macromedia) Flash!\u00a0 The technology will always change, but it&#8217;s actually the history, theory, and design knowledge you also get from Drexel that will benefit you for years to come.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are your thoughts about Drexel now that you have been in industry for a while? Drexel has such an advantage over other schools in the Philadelphia area in the form of their co-op program.\u00a0 The skills, lessons, and insight gained from even a single six month co-op is invaluable &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}