About Me

    Introduction

    Hi, my name is Jason Fisch and welcome to my personal website/ blog. I have been online with this site since about February 2001 and have just recently upgraded it to a blog in December of 2006. I have designed this site to produce information about myself and my life experiences, to express some of my views, and to distribute different career related experiences and gained knowledge (both firefighting and web development). So basically it is your typical personal website/ blog, except I will also throw in some tutorials of things I have learned on the way.

    Bio

    I am a 22 year old full-time professional firefighter and web developer. I was born and raised in the Hudson Valley, New York City’s northern suburbs and have a lot of pride in this region. It is great to live in a diverse region that features urban areas and rural areas, with everything in between and to be able to go to our nation’s largest city when ever I want. I still live in the Hudson Valley and live in an apartment with my beautiful fiancee (and dog). I graduated from my local high school in 2003 and then attended Dutchess Community College. I graduated from college with an AAS Degree in Computer Information Systems in 2006. While attending the college, I was hired as a paid full-time professional firefighter in 2005. Now as a firefighter and web developer my hands are full of different things going on, I look forward to buying a house and getting married to my fiancee.

    My Computer Background

    I have been online since the young age of about 14 and have enjoyed growing up with the Internet since it’s main public release during this time. I am proud to say I used AOL as a dial-up ISP, in fact I even used the text with minimum GIF graphics AOL version of 3.0, lol! Coupled with my 1997 Compaq Presario 4800 (Pentium MMX @ 233mhz, 32MB SDRAM, and a whopping 6Gig HD running Windows 95), I was off into the Internet world! Although my first computer before my Compaq was a donated 486 running Windows 3.1, it had no Internet and served as a word processor with one airplane game. So now being a 10 year Internet veteran, I am happy to say it has come a long way.

    From my birth days of Internet usage in 97, I was interested in making web pages. With AOLs built-in web page maker, I made myself my first home page in 97 with some learned HTML. From there I progressed to helping my community by making my hometown fire department a website (City of Beacon Fire Department) in 1998, followed by my hometown itself in 1999 (City of Beacon). From here, in 2001 at the age of 17, I founded my first business, Fisch Website Design. The company helped me expand my knowledge in website design and business by dealing with creating websites for local community groups, labor unions, and businesses. This brought me to my present company, founded in 2006 as an expansion of my web design business, Fisch Internet Solutions was created to expand into computer technology consulting and small network design.

    My Emergency Services Background

    If there is anything I have been into more, it would be the emergency services. From the day I was born, I was placed into this club by my family being a member of it. My uncle is a retired FDNY firefighter for Rescue 3 and is one of the fire industry’s most renown firefighters, my other uncle is a volunteer firefighter/ past chief, my cousin in a paid professional firefighter for Arlington Fire District, and many more of my family members are volunteers for various departments. I was also around the firehouses because of this since I was a little kid and is the reason why I have choose to make firefighting my career.

    I enjoy not knowing what is going to happen when you go into work. I love the feeling that you have the potential to save someones life in a moments notice. It is a great job and I recommend it to anyone who loves the same. I originally started my experience in the industry as a volunteer back when I was 16, in 2000. As a volunteer I gained the basic knowledge of firematics and the basic experience needed as a firefighter (If there is one thing you need in the industry it is a. common sense and b. hands of experience!). As a volunteer I also gained some leadership experience as a volunteer lieutenant. I loved it and even though I was torn between law enforcement and being a firefighter, I knew this is what I really wanted. So in February of 2005 when I got my call to go in to an interview to become a firefighter, I went for it and the rest is history.

    My first few months as a firefighter were great. I started like any newbie, probie in the industry, I was sent to school or the fire academy. Usually my department ships us off to Westchester County Fire Academy, however when I was hired no classes were running, so instead I was the first of my department to attend the state’s fire academy. I attended the New York State Fire Academy’s Recruit Firefighter Training Program (RFFT) for 11 weeks. The sleep away academy was a great 3 months in which I learned A LOT! We learned the basics of how to put on our gear all the way to learning how to set up rope systems to rescue someone. It was a great time and when June 2005 came for graduation I was ready and excited to start.

No tag for this post.