He started from the ground up, working in the early 1980s as a programmer and manager at the Bleecker Street Cinema, a Manhattan art-film temple.
After serving in the Army, he learned the oil business from the ground up, working as a semiskilled worker and eventually as an accountant for Wanda Petroleum, a trucking and underground storage company.
Capra then took a job with a San Francisco film studio and began learning about filmmaking from the ground up, working as film cutter, camera assistant, property man, writer, and assistant director.
Jaber said they built the app from the ground up, working with Work & Co to design the app.
There is a lot of ground-up work that has to happen," says a source who declined to be identified.
Still, teams like The Thunder and Spurs have proven it's still possible to build a team the old fashioned way, and considering one of those two teams will represent the West in the finals, it's clear that building from the ground up can work.
I knew nothing about the restaurant business so I started from the ground up: I worked on the floor as waitress, behind the bar, in the kitchen.
They have succeeded in defusing violent tribal feuds and establishing weapon-free zones -- always the long, slow, hard way, from the ground up, by working with local peacemakers and convincing all parties that their best interests are served by cooperation.
Todd built the service from the ground up and it works using a Flash-based interface with plenty of additional features including on-the-fly video and audio recording.
Roxanna Holley, a merchandising manager at a business-to-business labeling and packaging company, learned retail from the ground up -- starting out working as a cashier at a Texas Sears store.
He explained last week that the new party needed to be built from the ground up, and that his government work would not allow for such an effort.
