that's ah, a lot of information. So, um, I am an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, and I came to the U S in the fourth grade and, um, so I've had a lot of decisions that effected my career path, but I e I should say, eventually got into engineering because I really enjoyed math, and my teachers noticed that I had a special aptitude for mouth, and I was very fortunate in the fifth grade as I was going to middle school, actually, six grades of seven I waas identified to participate in a program called Times Two uh, which in Providence, Rhode Island Way I immigrated to, And it's a program that actually has grown into a whole high school hold school now. And in that school I got to me with engineers and learn about their drops, and I found it fascinating that every engineer was doing something different. And so it was something that I thought would be a great option for me, because at the end I could have many opportunities. And that's exactly what has happened to me today that I've been very fortunate to have had many opportunities, including pursuing a PhD to be a professor, which I have. I have taught that, uh, community colleges in constant Dominguez Hills, but did not become a full time professor. But I have not ruled that out, and that's a great thing about having a lot of education in a field that is highly sought after.

So when I initially in my last job, I should mention that I'm currently the vice president for academies and university alliances, S A P and I joined the company during the global pandemic, So I have mostly been a home with no travel. But previous to this job, I did work at Google Eyed lead university relations for Google Cloud, and when I first started, I was actually commuting every day, traveling to the Bay Area. I live in Southern California and would commute toe to that job and but broadly, probably 25 to 50% travel time, because I would visit universities and learn and meet researchers, academic researchers. So a lot of my job is I've always been the connector. It's all about relationship building, so I usually connect the scientists to the business folks and and identified opportunities to transfer technologies from the lab to the marketplace. Ah, lot of my career has been in the technology transfer space. So what is a process when somebody developed something in a lab, whether you are an academic or researcher for an institute, that process of taking that scientific discovery and moving into the marketplace. One example that I love to give, especially because it comes from JPL. Is the CMOs imager on your camera? It was technology that was developed by NASA toe look far out into space and had to be. I had to work under low light condition, had to be light and wait and inexpensive. And now it's on everyone so far. Um, And to get to that, by the way, on that career path, I did eventually also become a U. S. Patent agent. So I would like to say that, you know, learning is that is never done, especially now.

sure, I think the most. The biggest challenge of any job is, um, and the biggest reward for me as well is getting to know your colleagues and coworkers and learning to work of the team, which I think is done in a lot of universities. But you don't underestimate that, and often one thing that I try to do is especially rewarding and effective to get toe get along with people who are are like you. It's very easy to get along with people that are very similar to you. But take the challenge to get to know people who are different from you, because that's really how you grow and learn and understand how other people work and what motivates other people cause what motivates you is not know shortly will motivate somebody else. So, um, I think working as a team and learning the folks that you're working with is really critical