I have had a great career in what I call "Advanced Decision Support" applications Tools leverage mathematical optimization techniques to provide *hints* of better solutions to decision makers. I have had the ability to apply these techniques to marine shipping, inland trucking, package warehouse design, lube oil blend plant parameter optimization, offshore fleet planning, bulk liquid inventory management, sales & operations planning, and global strategy development. While advanced optimization techniques and ML algorithms are a base requirement to provide prescriptive solutions, I have learned that those skills are table stakes. To really make a differnce, it is critical to know how business work processes can be redesigned to take advantage of those technologies, then be able to deliver fit-for-purpose user interfaces that guide decision makers with the words and logic flow for how they like to run their business, then finally be able to design a data model to support all of that!At the end of the day, I personally derive the highest level of job satisfaction when I can make some ones life easier: that hell week at work during business planning cycles is now an easy 9 to 5. When the hurricane changed course and shut down our shipping docks at 3 o'clock on a Friday, they were able to use the tools we developed to rapidly reverse the supply chain and re-optimize inventory and shipping schedule, in time to still have dinner with their family. Second to that is my passion in seeing the people I mentor or supervise grow in their skills and confidence. I have always believed that I should not be using my team to do work, instead I should be using the work I need done to drive the skill and growth of my team. Challenging my teams to learn new skills, challenge the way business is done, step outside their comfort zone, and then watching them move to new roles and have successful careers brings me a lot of joy in my life.