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Yes, absolutely! To tell you the truth, it started a long time ago and for a small software development company. I managed to get on as a system admin and quickly learned that I didn't know as much as I thought that I did. The great thing about this company was that they recognized a lot of the challenges that I was experiencing, and took me under their wing and actually mentored me. And for the next almost two years, each week I produced a college paper on any topic that they provided. I think probably one of the most pivotol moment for me was when I was assigned the topic, "What is Association". Association is truly the core behind all technologies and that paper set everything in motion for me. After that point, I've had quite a few different opportunities, A lot of big name companies ranging from companies such as Sotheby's, the big auction company to Veritas and Symantec. Leading up to that I had actually been a developer for Sotheby's, with their real estate presence for the southeast region of America, and what we did was we created a platform that are similar to Realtor and Trulia. However, the great part with that was that we actually created 1.8 million Google indexes with first page ranking, and they were all organic. We all know what the price of Search Engine Optimization are and we did it all organically just by following the rules of relevance. Relevance is truly is the secret sauce behind Google's SEO and with all of their results, we provided that. We watched this platform just grow and essentially makes up pieces of my back story.
so responsibilities. I seem like I wear a lot of hats these days. Um, eso from from the as your side of things, I've actually found myself architect ing different solutions, um, rolling out d our plans and different recovery methods as well, dealing with different ways to deliver data to our clients. Um, ranging from different that technologies inside of Azure from actually were actually implementing some of Cosmo into this Because we have customers all the way around the world. That should be fairly interesting to see how that works. You know, you always deal with Leighton, See, And and sometimes timing is not always the best between here on the other side of the world. Yeah, a lot of trial and error because, you know, if you think about it, you're you're really it's It's a two sided, um platform, because you have to deal with the customer side as well your own side. So your site could be absolutely perfect. But if there's something you're not aware of on their side, there could be endless trouble from that. So we actually had a case where we were rolling out a bunch of equal upgrade across the entire planet, and we had one major site that did not roll over with us. So we ended up having to roll everything back just because of this one particular site, because we couldn't let the transaction database get mismatched in that type of way. So we just opted to roll back and turned out that they actually had a, um, a firewall issue on their side. No way on Earth could we have known that because every other site work. And here was that one state that didn't work. So it was a little bit challenges, and I actually had gotten there and identified that for them. I'm like, Oh, here it is all that work, planning, effort, failure. But we were able to overcome that by identifying the problem, correcting and then doing it again. So, you know, it is really just taking place and making sure that you know everything that all the moving parts.
um, so I actually do a lot of different roles. So, you know, software programs can range from, you know, different crm two. Um, you so that the frameworks for especially azure, we use a RM templates that there are armed templates that pretty much handled the majority of deployment configuration for all the systems. Um, you know, using armed templates, you can roll out, you know, tens of thousands of of host. Just like that, you know, literally the click of ah, keyboard versus having to go in and manually build each one over and over and over. Um, I like to call them disposable operating systems, and other people call them golden images. But the truth be is that you can, you know, stand up endless amounts of machines as well tear him down. It's, you know, we've come so far, you know, in the last decade or so, that really is impressive.