Yeah, it's a good question. And thanks for having me. So when I was in middle and high school, I spent five consecutive summers, um, helping to build homes in Tijuana, Mexico. And I was extremely impacted by the disparities and living conditions that I saw between, um, Southern California, just across the border and Tijuana. You know, when you cross the border, it was it was like entering another world, very different living conditions. And so it grew my interest in international development. I didn't know those were the words at the time, but it grew my interest in in better understanding, um, people and organizations and systems outside of the U. S. And the role that I might be able to play in helping improve the living conditions for people outside the US. And so when I was in college, I took about 15 language classes, um, starting with Spanish and then greek and then Arabic. And then, um, I also studied French and ultimately Moroccan, Arabic and Turkish. Um, yeah, yeah. I mean, I love language. It's it's incredible way to communicate with other people, um, and and to learn about their cultures and their backgrounds. So all of my summers were spent in, um, foreign countries. I spent December in Costa Rica, summer in Greece, a summer of Morocco and then a summer in the West Bank, doing different kinds of work. So I did education related work in the West Bank. I lead, Ah, summer cubes for refugee youth in Kim's outside of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus. And then after college, I moved abroad for two years, So I spent one year Morocco and then one year in Turkey and Morocco. I was working with non governmental organizations called Search for Common Ground and Innovations for Poverty, Action and a few others. And I was working in Casablanca and Robot, predominantly doing conflict resolution, poverty alleviation and community empowerment work. Um, and it was fascinating. And then in Turkey, I was there as part of the Fulbright program. I was teaching in the Southwest in a city called Antalya when I was doing research on the barriers to employment for Syrian refugee news in southeast Turkey and Kurdish Iraq, and I was able to use the Turkish that I was learning and the Arabic that I knew pretty well to communicate with folks in all those places. So it was an incredible journey. And then it took me to the Harvard Kennedy School, where I did my two year and PP master in public policy, and I loved it. I focused on statistics, um, econometrics and economics. And it was just Ah, wonderful experience. I met incredible people, and I learned a lot on DSO to your question. You know, what brought me to my work up was on Hamilton when I was there. I, ah, a team from booze came and and let a workshop on public sector consultant I attended. I didn't know anything about public sector consulting. I've never worked in consulting. Um, and I thought it was really interesting. I liked the idea. I've always found work between sectors public, private and non profit to be very intriguing. And I waas excited about the idea of working in a new space in the private sector for the federal government, which was space that I had long wanted to operate him. And, um, it just was a really interesting fit. I love foreign policy, and I was excited about the opportunity to be able to do that kind of work in a professional setting in the US, which I hadn't had as an experience, um, for such a great organization and ultimately for the U. S. Federal government. So it was a really cool opportunity. I after graduate school ST in Boston because I have just loved living here. And, um, it's it's been nice that I have been able to recommit Lee for the last four years, actually, So pre cope it. And um, yes, that's that's sort of the journey. That's that's how I got to the rule that I'm in now.

Yeah. So the nice thing about public sector consulting, as opposed to private sector consulting, I eat working in service of the government as opposed to another company as your primary client. Is that the hours air? Quite a bit more manageable. So we worked out a comfortable 40 hours a week and were able to flex our time, which means that it doesn't have to be a strict 9 to 5. I could work in the evenings, and I can work on weekends. Joe. Now, obviously, you have meetings during the roughly 9 to 5 time cream, but our team is geographically dispersed around the country I work on, Ah, a team that has folks all over. And so we work with folks in different time zones. Sometimes our clients are in Europe, and so the the time itself is a little bit varied. Um, in terms of the responsibilities and the decisions that I have. So, um, I consult two different federal government agencies and I specialize in, um, open source intelligence. So what that means is there are different kinds of intelligence collection. One commonly known type is human human intelligence. It means having personal conversations and gathering information from that conversation. I don't do any of that work. I do Lucent Open Source Intelligence, which means that we use, um, publicly available Resource is to to do data collection in an entirely open source fashion, which is really nice. It's a little bit easier. I'm not working in a classified space. And, um, it's also a lot of fun because you're able to use, you know, Twitter as, ah, information source. And there's a huge amount of information that's available publicly. And so what we do is we. Generally, the kinds of projects that I'm on involved data collection and then, um, analysis and ultimately cultivation in the form of ah, in extended were document or a Power point presentation that we then share with the client a za final bolivar ball. So that's generally the life cycle of a project. Since I joined the firm full time four years ago, I've been on over 30 project, um, on all kinds of subjects. I specialized in the Middle East or North Africa, but increasingly, I'm also doing work that looks at countries and issues in Eastern Europe. Um, it's become a bigger issue, and so our geographic focus has shifted a bit and, um, yeah, that's a little bit about the work that I've been doing.

so this, Really? I mean, the answer to this question range is based on the role that the person has up its Alan. So it's pretty interesting. We have a huge number of data scientists and software engineers, in part because, as I understand it, that the government has a harder time bringing that talent in house. And so it's Ah, it's an area in which we can provide additional about you. And so a lot of my peers are using just so you can get a full spectrum of an answer my peers air using, Um, you know, all kinds of of, ah data platforms generally ones that are publicly available soap icon and are for data analysis, Um, or Java script or C plus. Plus, If they're doing more software engineering, I do not do that work. So the work that I am doing is limited to excel. Um, I am a very comfortable Excel user. This point and Power Point Edward documents of pretty basic Microsoft products. Um, we do use ah license to a different commercial tools through which we are able to aggregate information in mass, um, and and then often served as the basis for a data collection. Um, by Yeah, they're the answer again. Range is based on the role that the person plays. That was Alan. Yes, but we use all kinds of tools.