Brian Sylvester

ENG 352

Interview: Juan Londono

Juan is a fellow student of ours at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a senior under the Biomedical Engineering department. I first met Juan from working with him at Instructional Media Services.

Outside of school Juan calls the Town of Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey his home. His family moved there from Elizabeth, New Jersey after his family believed that it was time to move to a safer township. He graduated from the Manasquan High School. When at school, Juan resides on the second floor of the Laurel dormitory.

Juan has many interests and hobbies including, but not limited to building and maintaining computers, video gaming, photography, and cycling. Gaming includes counter strike, battle field, and mine sweeper. His interest in photography has extended into submitting some of his shots to online groups for peer reviews. He hopes to purchase a SLR digital camera in the near future.

Juan is a very active cyclist. He has been in the last four “tour de techs” at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has showed up to several armature races. Come this spring, he will be attending the Hamton’s downhill cycling race. “Hopefully,” he says that he will have purchased a much higher quality racing bike by that time.

Holding the position of a “Delivery Technician,” Juan works for New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Instructional Media services department. The work details the delivery of classroom audio visual technology including, but, not limited to smart cart mobile computing stations, DVD/VCR/TV combinations, slide projectors, LCD projectors, public address systems, screens, and flipcharts.

Students that acquire this job are required to be able to troubleshoot windows based applications and servers under time constraints. Students should be knowledgeable in wired and wireless networks, pc hardware, PA systems, and LCD projectors. They are expected to partake in various and sundry courier duties, cleaning and maintenance of equipment, storerooms, assisting faculty, light clerical work, and some heavy lifting. It is key that the member be able to work as a part of a team, and must be able to arrive to work at a scheduled time.

Juan has put many quality hours in this job since his sophomore year. Instructional Media Services main office is located on the basement floor of GITC. The technicians work out of Kupfrian Hall on the first floor so that they have convenient access to the entire campus.

Juan’s most memorable moments at work have been being able to work special events including sitting events in the Campus Center Ballroom for presidential and governmental meetings. His worst memories are understaffed mornings where he has to run around the entire campus all by himself in a fifteen minute time span to get all of the campus ready for morning classes.

I’ve been lucky to know Juan Londono over the last three years. He has made a great friend and co worker on campus. He’s a very versatile student and it’s never been a dull moment around him.