Jeran and I met at Utah State University in Biology class. He had just gotten home from his mission and it was the first semester for both of us. We finally got around to dating and were married the next summer in Logan, UT. Both of our families live in Cache Valley so we got to live near both of them while we finished school. We both graduated from USU in 2007, Jeran in Biochemistry and I graduated in Management Information Systems.
Jeran was accepted to graduate schools all over the country but decided he wanted to be a
Tarheel, so we moved to North Carolina in July 2007. He is currently attending the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to get his PhD in Pharmacology. He works in a large research lab that researches pancreatic and colon cancer to "delineate the molecular basis for cancer". If you're into the science stuff, their lab studies Ras superfamily GTPases, oncogenes, signal transduction, and target-based anti-cancer drug discovery. I can't tell you which stuff Jeran specifically works on because it all goes over my head. Anyways, he is very good at what he does and is making some good friends there. After he finishes in 3 to 5 years, who knows where we will go. There are a lot of options and we would eventually like to move back to the west and perhaps to Utah, but we'll go where the jobs and opportunities are.While I was a junior in college, I started working at a software company, New Dawn Technologies in Logan, UT, that makes case management software for agencies involved in the
justice system. This includes Courts, District Attorneys, Public Defenders, Probation and Parole Agencies, etc. I do database scripting to move data from Legacy systems into New Dawn's system. This job has been a great blessing for me because it pays pretty well, is very flexible, and the company is young and well-managed. When we moved to NC, I was able to keep my job with them and telecommute from home all the way across the country. Now I am self-employed and have huge work flexibility and choices. In many ways it is a dream job and I was so blessed to have found it all those years ago.
justice system. This includes Courts, District Attorneys, Public Defenders, Probation and Parole Agencies, etc. I do database scripting to move data from Legacy systems into New Dawn's system. This job has been a great blessing for me because it pays pretty well, is very flexible, and the company is young and well-managed. When we moved to NC, I was able to keep my job with them and telecommute from home all the way across the country. Now I am self-employed and have huge work flexibility and choices. In many ways it is a dream job and I was so blessed to have found it all those years ago.
