So how did I get to where I am today? And the honest answer it is? There was a lot of luck in a lot of opportunity, but I guess tenacity is probably the terms that we should throw in there as well. So when I was younger, I had the opportunity to actually be Arkansas's a regional Valley library assistant administrator at the age of 16 and that just kind of happened all It's my lap. I had experience in the tired to that report, but that really slingshot in my career owes it will start rendering shoulders with professionals. I would say we'll start making contacts. And while those specific individuals didn't result in me getting a job later on in life and he wasn't referral or anything like that, the experiences I heard about the problems that they were having in their careers for apparently so that later on when I ran into the state types additions, I was able to react and because of my experiences Regional Valley assistant administrator, other opportunities open that as a result of that. So just having that experience on my resume really opened up opportunities, and I started working at Fidelity Information Services when I was a little older, and that's the arm of Fidelity. So Fidelity National Financial that'll be if may have Fidelity Investments and other the Delhi companies that all of the relatives that tech born for it, I was able to start working for them in the security capacity. And as I turned my career, there was other opportunities that opened up from there. I became the security architect for Family Search, which is the genealogical department of the directive. These high splattered a sense and made some contacts that family search. And one of those contacts is Brian Que, who happened to be the senior vice president of Loose It start later on. In his career, Lucid heart had grown to a point where they needed somebody with a security background and assistance background. So he reached out to me and asked if I was interested. We went through the interview process, and I ended up just turned seven years here for seven years ago,

So when I doing lucid on I was employee number 23 in the office. I remember during my interview process, I brought in two boxes of donuts. Don't sell me is the person they wanted higher and there was dumb. It's left over. So it is a small office, a lot of fun as loose. It's grown. I've kept all of those responsibilities and I had the opportunity to grow out teams to serve it all of those depressants. So right now, a security I t s sorry. Slash Dev off flush This administration internal business systems are still sports administration and our analytics teams report through me. So my bait did they use a mixture of individual contributor tasks, a long term roadmap and vision. Pasts as well is just general mentor in for the employees that you report to me or report through on tonight. My day today, work depends largely on what's the biggest fire that's burning. I have a sent a virus that I go down in ordered list and those are often is there anything absolutely urge of this type? Sensitive, if not, are the things that I should be doing is a manager if not one of the long term roadmap visions that I can start thinking about and planning for. My work schedule is also very dependent on the week. One of the things that I learned early on that career my wife also funded this out is I have a tendency to feel my time. It doesn't matter if I give up. Responsibility is it doesn't matter if responsibilities are adjusting to different parts of the department. I have a personal tendency to fill up My baby thing worked to the point where it is too full. I always have to any things, that judgment. And when I was earlier on in my career that used to cause a lot of stress and recent cause dresses because I couldn't complete everything. I learned later on in my career is that I actually appreciate having too many things to work, and the reason is that I'm able to drop the things off the list that are not most important. If I have too many things, I have to make a constant effort that where the priorities are and I think it drives a healthier decision because I have to choose, not only what am I going to drop, but also how are we going to drop it? We're consciously making get rid off to not do X because we're doing what So hours of the day is kind of hard to answer because I personally have way too many things to do in a given day. It's really just how interesting, ganged Emma. Normally it's supposed to 95 but even in the 95 always answering emails and questions, I when there's large projects that I it's you quite a bit.

the challenges of my dog. Honestly, our I'm learning it as I go once you have experience that you can rely on that experience. When you have do look at scenarios proper, you're going to rely on that experience to make the same decision or make a better decision than he did last time. So much of my job, especially in the startup world, is learning as you go. I don't have a mentor that I could look to, so I rely on Block post. I reliant on particles and other stories. I rely on Conference Fox of people that have been there and done that, but it's difficult especially to start up to work in an environment where you don't have been for So what is the I say that the flip side and it is. I probably happened where I'm at because I like those challenges. I like doing things for the first time. I like figuring them out and not necessarily readmitting will, but everybody feels through something. For the first time, a student's you're going to have a first interview. You have your degree, and that's going to be a different experience than interviewing at your tears. So everything has things, first time experiences. I really enjoy those I enjoyed. That is part of my informant. Honestly, that's what drives me more than so. It's important for the success of the business that I am. Results Britain and Canada treaty to the bottom line from customer attention foreign guest scores. But for me personally, what drives made is that constant growth. And I don't think that the constant internal growth has to be different than on a company's goals. It's just how I take the company goals in a fight into myself in firmly in a way that that gets me motivated inside. The way that I deal with change and challenge is, I always try to phrase it in a way that and I do this on paper, how does this map to the company objective and how does it map to me internally and a part of the reason I do that is, to avoid burnout. If I know that it's successful to the business and I can write down the results that are trying to achieve for business, and I can also map it to what motivates me and firmly then all the sudden I'm excited to work on it. It's not a burden. It's not something that I just have to drag myself to do. So for me, the way that I deal with these challenges and work setting is I literally write down what it is. I'm working. I map out the results that I'm trying t from all of the different stakeholders, and I include myself is a staple in everything.