Vicki Riggins

Education

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  Virginia Western Community College

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  AAS Data Processing

  Programming languages learned included Basic, IBM 360-370 Assembler, RPG and Cobol. Limited experience with JCL. Courses included General Accounting, Cost Accounting, System Analysis and Design, and Business Law. Worked on teams to design and develop business applications. Graduated Magnum Cum Laude.

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  Lynchburg General Hospital

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  MT Medical Technology

  Graduated the top of the class with the Avie E. Phillips Memorial award. In August 1981 became certified as a Medical Technologist (ASCP) and obtained a 97 percentile rank on the registry.

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  Virginia Tech

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  MIS Computer Science

  Programming languages learned included Pascal, C, Prolog, VP-Expert, SQL and Visual Basic. Learned UNIX while working on a team developing operating system prototypes using C and Unix on AT&T Unix PCs. Other classes included relational database technology, artificial intelligence applications and user interface development. Application prototypes developed included a clinical imaging information system named the Simple Clinical Imaging Retrieval System (SCIRS) and a help desk expert system… Show more Programming languages learned included Pascal, C, Prolog, VP-Expert, SQL and Visual Basic. Learned UNIX while working on a team developing operating system prototypes using C and Unix on AT&T Unix PCs. Other classes included relational database technology, artificial intelligence applications and user interface development. Application prototypes developed included a clinical imaging information system named the Simple Clinical Imaging Retrieval System (SCIRS) and a help desk expert system named Application Systems Knowledgebase (ASK).My final project included research and development of demonstration Web Pages for healthcare and presentation of Internet tools to end users to demonstrate the application of Internet access methods in healthcare.GRE General Test scores. . 96 percentile rank in analytical ability (740 out of 800) . 95 percentile rank in quantitative ability (760 out of 800) . 65 percentile rank in verbal ability (540 out of 800) Show less

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  The College of William and Mary

  1972 - 1977

  B.S. Biology

  Activities and Societies: Golf, SCUBA, skiing Studies included Genetics, Physics, Animal Development, Organic Chemistry, Electron Microscopy, Microbiology, Anthropology, Psychology, and my first computer class (FORTRAN). I also attended classes at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester, Virginia.