{"id":96,"date":"2021-09-07T17:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2021-09-07T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:11:00","slug":"james-conti-93","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/first-generation-students\/james-conti-93\/","title":{"rendered":"James Conti \u201993"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"James

James Conti \u201993<\/p><\/div>\n

I graduated in 1993 from Saint Peter\u2019s College with a BS in Computer Science. Ironically enough my career has predominantly been in finance and not in the Computer Science field. However, my educational background in CS certainly has given me a leg up over the years as the world became much more technically adept and focused.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically with regard to being a first generation college student at Saint Peter\u2019s College (SPC back then), I certainly had my world and peripheral career vision expanded tremendously while attending classes and much more after graduation.\u00a0 The nurturing environment at SPC and special attention paid by the Jesuit ethos to me as a person was something very new to me.\u00a0 Coming out of a predominantly \u2018blue collar\u2019 world growing up , I was used to a daily grind in all aspects of life and paying close attention to trying to get and keep my slice of the pie in life.\u00a0 I had not been around an environment where collaboration and a focus on me becoming an overall better human being were at the forefront of things.\u00a0 Teachers and students alike all seemed to be on the same page and attempting to move forth as one and not so much on an individual basis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

That mindset and caring (Cura Personalis<\/em>), has not ever left me since.\u00a0 I saw the power of a team and the goodness of people and defined my own success in that framework.\u00a0 Helping others and giving back to my community are my success measuring tools.\u00a0 I truly am a blessed man for having gone to Saint Peters and becoming enlightened (so to speak).\u00a0 I hope I can add those things to others\u2019 lives as well in some small way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I graduated in 1993 from Saint Peter\u2019s College with a BS in Computer Science. Ironically enough my career has predominantly been in finance and not in the Computer Science field. However, my educational background in CS certainly has given me a leg up over the years as the world became much more technically adept and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/firstgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}