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Employee Spotlight: Intern Edition

Jul 10, 2015

Joe Duncan is one of the summer interns here at Grid Connect. He has worked on writing many of our recent blog posts as well as had a hand in our social media presence. In addition, he has spent some time weeding through the Grid Connect website to look for better ways to get across our message.

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