Well, I started out in wanting to be a software engineer, and I quickly realized that I didn't have the stamina for the math and the advanced stuff that you need for a computer science degree. And security had really been at the forefront of my career goals, right? I love playing around. I love hacking around finding vulnerabilities on DSO. I figured working in I t would be a better way to get there on DSO. I worked in I t doing mainline 90 everything from help desk to director of information technology. And then I the cloud really took off and people were looking to migrate to the cloud they were looking Thio offload some of that cost of their on Prem data centers. And so the next logical leap was for me to go into the cloud and become a cloud architect where I could help companies move their environments to that to that cloud platform and do it in a cost effective and secure manner. So I kind of get the best of both worlds playing with infrastructure, playing with new tech and playing with security all rolled into one different, um, all all rolled into one job path on DSO. That's where I'm at today, Um, after graduating with my master's degree in information systems from the University of Utah.

all right now, working from home is all ideo I mean, the office today because I had to do some hands on stuff with our on Prem Environment. A za principal cloud architect. I handle two different aspects of our business. I handle the Dev ops, which is a methodology for software programming Onda handling all of our internal cloud environments. But on top of that, I'm also on sales calls and in the procurement process, as customers were looking to buy our software for use in the cloud and I help come up with the architectural guidelines, I do system testing. I do the smoke testing on data environments and the beta software, um, to make sure that it works in the cloud and have recommendations on hand to, um to make sure that they were run efficiently in those cloud environments. Work Lee Weekly work hours. I work about 40 to 50 hours a week. It's pretty much 95. Sometimes I'm on call. Sometimes I have to pick up and work a little late just based on the workload. Um, work travel Right now. My commutes. About 30 seconds. I wear a lot of bed into my office and work from home. But when travel is a thing, I travel. I travel about a month, two months out of the year, visiting clients, going to conferences. Um, there's some international travel just because of how our business operates on DSO training employees, that remote sites going to conferences and speaking, going to conferences and learning, but about 4 to 8 weeks a year on the road.

So the challenge is that I run into because of how new the cloud is. Is understanding how the cloud, um, translates to an on Prem environment, Right, So taking it's a it's a big concept to say. Okay, we're gonna lift your data center into the cloud, and here is how we're going to do it. You have to do a piecemeal and so breaking it down to different job functions makes it a lot easier when dealing with that specific challenge. And the other challenge that you really run into is the challenge of technological knowledge, Right, The techno, how of how the cloud works, how to secure that workload. And so, just being up to date exploring new technologies offered by these cloud providers, um, I've had customers that say, Hey, we're gonna move everything to the cloud and they get everything in the cloud and it breaks and they forget that it's just virtual machines just running in a different platform. And so being able to go in and say approach this the same way you would a VM ware or hyper V or different virtualization environment makes it very easy for people to grasp those concepts