Tales of two centuries and 25 years.

October 4 was my second 10 year anniversary with a major corporation.  I began this IT career in the late 20th century as a project manager, desktop support engineer, network administrator, and finally a Lucent PBX and Videoconferencing engineer for smaller companies like Hoechst Celanese, AZ Photoresist and Clariant corporation... as a contractor and IT leader.  As I learned to solve problems(both the real ones and the political ones), and lead teams, I progressed up the ladder as you might imagine.  I feel lucky to still be working and contributing.. Blessed profoundly.  
The 21st century has largely been a tales of two companies.  Capital One and then Cisco Systems have each provided me fantastic opportunities to learn and contribute to their growth as I continued to grow.   Two decades... and roughly 20,000 career hours later... I am focused on wildly different priorities from that Y2K project that put me on the map as a technologist, leader and success corporate citizen.
I have at least another 15-20 years of this IT and corporate leadership work ahead... The future of work is as certain and uncertain as it has ever been. It is filled with opportunity and unbelievable challenge mixing tools, processes and people above all. Collaborate, Create, Communicate, and Deliver at Scale over duration... That is the record.  I feel like I'm in a groove now, and I plan to continue to push the envelope of expectations, making changes, innovating and getting stuff done and most say can't be done.  

​ Let's Roll.   

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