Yeah, so? So my name is Rick Urrutia. I am the founder, and, um, and executive chairman of a company in San Jose, California called house t a O s dot com. You could go there and and kind of take a closer look at what we do. I am originally from Guatemala in Central America, so I I might immigrated to the U. S. When I was six years old. My parents are both We're both professionals. They passed away. Now I'm 61 years old. I lived in Los Angeles from the age of six till about the age of 16. And then I moved to Guatemala for a, um, for a second time, uh, to finish high school and college in In what? The Maada as my father relocated there for for work. Um, and you know, in terms off, you know the questions here. What's my story? What incident? What incidents and experienced have shaped my career path. The first one that I would, I would tell you is that I had a neighbor in Guatemala. His name was Fernando Ortiz, and he was not a professional. He he did odd jobs for people, you know, he had, ah, business where he picked up people's dry cleaning on, do you know, took it to the dry cleaner and handle, liberated back to them, sold them eggs and dairy products along the way. And he actually made more money than my parents did. As a matter of fact, he was our landlord. And by 3 p.m. Every day he was done working. And I thought, Okay, how is it that my parents have gone to school, are professionals and are squarely in the middle class? And here's a guy that independently has made a lot of money and is wealthy. And by 3 p.m. Every day is done with his regular job, and he owns the house that that we live in. So that was very inspirational to me to kind of make a note that may be working for for the man wouldn't be as exciting as if I were able to work for myself long term. Um, further, when I moved to Silicon Valley in 1981 I worked for startups and there were a lot of fun. But, you know, one of the things you see in the Valley is a lot of people become millionaires working at startups. But what you don't hear is of the people that did not make it in those startups, right, that the startups actually failed. So for every billionaire that you meet from Google, there's a bunch of people that have worked for a startup that didn't go. So I decided that rather than chase another startup, I would get into consulting, which led to the idea that I had to start house in 1989.

So the first thing I learned being a consultant is that you are expected to add value immediately. You need to, As we say, land running and the expectation of what you are able to do and accomplish is, you know, very high, as opposed to being an employee where you could go through orientation, you know, and spend a month or two just kind of learning the ropes and understanding things. As as a consultant, you cannot waste time. So So that was a big quick lesson. And then, you know, over time, I think you start to realize how much more effective you've actually been as a consultant than you would have been as an employee, because you can stay focused on the task at hand.

So I'm 61. I'm beyond the age where I'm technically involved. I'm or on the leadership Eso you know, algorithms, languages. That was all a lot of my past. I'm kind of an old school guy today. Honestly, I use excel Power point Word, instant message email. Slack zoom. Right. That's how I live. You know, my my day these days, Azan executive, My consultants work a lot with cloud, uh, infrastructure as a service, primarily helping customers with those migrations. And they will use, you know, modern languages like python. You know, going, You know, those technologies?