My IT career has been filled with an incredible variety of technical and personal challenges. Because IT is all about people, it is never just about equipment and codeI have been in IT project management, governance, audit automation, devops and coding. Creating change that is visible, transparent and accountable. working and managing teams, helping everyone get across the finish line.Before my time working projects for a large bank and my family company, Trinity Cabot, I enjoyed an approx 10-year career working as an L3 IT engineer for Enterprise Automation, mostly out of Charlotte, NC. Before that, in Oregon helping offshore teams work into automation. Being one of the first on the ground as DevOps trainer in India 2x in 2006. The goal is automation, minimum alerts and exception reporting, as much as possible!In Florida, work as an developer, (title was Programmer Analyst, back in the day!), building databases of proprietary company data that I later uploaded into SAP R/3, crafting requirements, design documents, scripting, coding and working those raw data loads, coding ABAP, running Basis uploads, and working as Oracle DBA.Is there a finish line? Once you are over it, there is another race to run, but unlike the ‘no finish line’ philosophy, after a race well run, is there time to relax, to take stock, train and prepare for the next race. There is work life balance, we individually are not continuously running … but your systems are ... For sure, there are times when your team needs to work every weekend and holiday for a while to get the job done. Is your company up to the task ? Are your systems ready to take on a 24x7x365 operation and pass compliance & audit gates cleanly and correctly ?Personally, my online reviews using Google Maps have currently positioned me as a Global Online influencer. I am currently a top 10% Google Restaurant Reviewer worldwide. Also a top 10% Campground reviewer. Worldwide.My photographs currently have over 2m views. I can provide screen-shot documentation via Google Analytics. The concrete pour I worked for our Vermont cabin foundation marked 40 years since I had slung mud in Medley, Florida in 1981. Calculating yardage, ordering the pumper and mixer truck, and actually running the end of the nozzle, filling the ICFs (insulated concrete forms) with mud and vibrating & tamping down. A summer job with lifelong skills, even if not used in a very long time!There is more to my busy life, such as my recent trip to Ireland with my wife Sheri, on the trail of her DNA, searching backwards through time.