Information Technology is not the same when I first started my career. When I started, 65536 bytes were all I had on my Atari 800 XL. Now 64k is about the size of packet over the air or on the wire. I built my own IBM-compatible computer like most people in my field but that has all changed.

Infrastructure is now code. No hardware needed...well almost no hardware. You just need a terminal that has a browser and can run HTML5, which you could run on a Raspberry Pi. You merely just need to define a piece of code to be anything: a network card, a virtual network, the number of CPUs, RAM and hard drive, which are mostly solid-state, and so on.

I.T. should stand for Infrastructure Technology. My career has switched from hardware to a software-infrastructure administrator. I can run packet traces, stream and record logs for performance and troubleshooting. I'm always learning with the ever changing pace of digital and cloud transformation.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing

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DeVry Technical Institute, Woodbridge-NJ

Electronics Technician Diploma