Questions and Answers

What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

Wait, is my career going to end?!

Where do you go for inspiration?

My colleagues and friends provide endless inspiration. Just asking a question provides a flow of answers that I never expected, and that can take my thinking in new directions.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

Make the architecture as flexible as possible without endangering the product or delivery date. But be realistic. Nothing we’re building in the Mobile can’t (or in many cases shouldn’t) be rebuilt in 3-5 years, so don’t get too attached.

What keeps you up at night?

Dance parties.

What gets you up in the morning?

I work with the smartest, coolest, best people ever. I wake up eager to talk to them, ask questions, and offer suggestions.

How is your work cross-cultural?

I don’t really think of my work in this way. It’s more about the task than the person doing the task. The platform is the same.

Questions and Answers

What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

If I succeed, I’d hope people would say that I provided value, that I always strove for the most elegant, simple solution, that my knowledge was broad enough to match the right person, tool, or technology up to the need, and deep enough to build a world-class solution with those resources.

Most importantly, I’d hope to be remembered as someone who took care of what matters most — the people involved in the work.

Where do you go for inspiration?

Talks with my 5 year old daughter can be pretty profound — If we could all learn to live in the moment like a 5 year old this would be an amazing world.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

Place the people at the forefront. There’s no stopping a group of Intelligent people who are empowered, driven, and focused on providing value.

What keeps you up at night?

The insomnia has abated for some time… but I often have lucid dreams which put complex problems into abstract concepts that my mind can work through. I’ve solved many a dilemma (work or personal) in my sleep.

…that’s the long answer.

Short answer is — I try not to worry & just keep focused on the solution… everything always works out in the best possible way once that rule is respected.

What gets you up in the morning?

Service. — Serving clients, solving problems, fulfilling promises I’ve made to others.

How is your work cross-cultural?

Our quicloud team is spread across the globe — Tokyo, Prague, Berlin, Colorado, and San Fran. By doing “smart sourcing” in this way, we can essentially work a client project around the clock — fluidly passing assets and deliverables from one time zone to the next via productivity software.

I can also pull out some very dusty business Japanese upon request