I spent a lot of time when I was in school trying to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up. I think, like a lot of students, I really didn't know at first. I didn't know anything. I started out at BYU, Brigham Young University, and I came in declared as chemical engineering, which was something I just chose off of a sheet of paper. It didn't mean anything. My father was an electrical engineer, so I actually quickly changed to electrical engineering in school just because I knew what that was and thought that perhaps I could follow in those footsteps. But, in pursuing electrical engineering, I quickly found out that I enjoyed software a lot more than hardware and started looking into things like computer science and information systems---those kind of things. Then was disrupted, so to speak, by getting married and starting a family. So, I left school and didn't get any of those degrees. I got a job in software quality assurance at that time, even without having a degree or being able to pursue being a software engineer or anything like that at the time. I still made sure that I inserted myself into that industry in any way that I could. And software quality insurance was the route for me at that time. So I started working in that capacity. A few years later, I went back to school and finished up at Utah Valley University. Even then, I switched majors once or twice. I mean as information systems switched to a software engineering degree that they had at the time. And then found out that Information Systems was better suited towards working students, which I was at that time. Then got back into information systems, graduated from UVU with that bachelors and then came to the University of Utah to get a master's in information systems. It's all right. With all of the scattered coursework that I did, it was enough to get a minor in computer science. So there was a bonus for all the flip flopping that I did along the way. As far as career goes, I stayed in software quality assurance for several years, moving up in that capacity. I got into software quality assurance automation. I started writing software that tested software. I did have some personal projects and a few software engineering projects of my own along the way. I eventually did get into a software engineering role. And today I am a senior software engineer at Intermountain Healthcare.

In a regular situation. Ah.. So my my role is a little bit different than most software engineers at Intermountain Healthcare. Most software engineers work under the CTIS department of Intermountain Healthcare, which is computer technology and information systems. They develop systems that support the providers like doctors and whoever else. My role is in the marketing and communications department, so I work on the Intermountain healthcare ".org" websites themselves. So I work on things like the hospital informational websites. Most recently my my projects were things like Primary Children's Hospital and cancer care (oncology). So things like that. In a normal situation, I would be traveling to downtown Salt Lake, and I live in Eagle Mountain, which is a bit of a drive for me. And so with COVID happening, I get to work from home. So no commute. So it works out for me. Engineering is a very versatile position to be in, even in times like this, because you can actually do it from anywhere. It's just nice.

So I work mostly with Angular on the client side. We have Angular on our client side, C# and Sitecore CMS on our back end. Most days, in working with that, I am working with VS Code, git, and Visual Studio. Anything that fits into that environment.