Hello! My name is Mitchel and I recently graduated with a Computer Science and Commerce degree at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n
Raised in\u00a0\u00a0Alberta<\/a>, I moved to Kelowna, British Columbia\u00a0<\/a>with my family at the age of eight.\u00a0 If you are unfamiliar with the Okanagan and Kelowna<\/a>, I would strongly suggest taking a look to see what the region has to offer. I can assure you, it will be time well spent.\u00a0 I am also very fortunate to have spent my\u00a0winter weekends\u00a0up at Big White<\/a>.<\/p>\n After what seemed like an eon in teenagers eyes, I graduated with honours from the Kelowna Secondary School<\/a> completing the French Immersion, Applied Science and Career Science programs.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0then left my family to study Biology and Economics at the University of Alberta<\/a>.\u00a0 During this program, I also studied abroad at Lancaster University <\/a>in Lancaster, United Kingdom<\/a>.\u00a0 Here I attended courses (modules) in Biogeochemistry, Microbiology and International Economics.\u00a0 Upon completion of the degree, a decision was made to take some time from school to gain experience in a professional environment.\u00a0 After two years working as a Coordinator for Ledcor Construction<\/a>, I decided my next educational step would be in Computer Science.<\/p>\n Current Goals and Their Application In Professional Environments:<\/em><\/p>\n Academically, the completion of my Computer Science degree was at the top of the list.\u00a0 I am now hoping to utilize the knowledge gained\u00a0in my program\u00a0in a position at a high-energy, fun, and creative firm. \u00a0 I have spent a considerable amount of time learning object-oriented computer programming languages such as Java and Python, and am excited to demonstrate my abilities. I also believe my time at Sauder School of Business has provided me with the tools to operate in many disciplines. My Entrepreneurship class is an excellent example of this as the course amalgamates the theoretical information we have learned in Finance and Marketing, and applies them in real world scenarios.<\/p>\n Aside from expanding my knowledge of computer languages, another personal goal of mine is to learn as many spoken languages as I can.\u00a0 I currently speak advance\u00a0French, have a year and a half of University level Spanish under my belt and have taken a\u00a0basic course in\u00a0Mandarin.\u00a0 I have also spent some time living in Germany where I took evening classes learning the language (up to A2). Moving forward I would love to learn a bit of Japanese and Russian.\u00a0 Why the languages you may ask? Meeting\u00a0new faces is\u00a0important to me. \u00a0I feel you can develop a stronger connection with others by communicating with them in their native language. Having the opportunity to backpack in Europe for a few months only further reinforced this idea.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello! My name is Mitchel and I recently graduated with a Computer Science and Commerce degree at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Raised in\u00a0\u00a0Alberta, I moved to Kelowna, British Columbia\u00a0with my family at the age of eight.\u00a0 If you are unfamiliar with the Okanagan and Kelowna, I would strongly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36641,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mitchelsharko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}