 The three small steps in my career have been to move to the industry after my doctorate in industrial engineering from Purdue in 1977. The second step was to move to Jamaica, West Indies from India to start a new career and the third step was to give up the thousand member software engineer team that I had built up to set a new brand new business domain group within the firm. The giant leap in my career came 28 years later when I moved back to academia to start building the bridge between industry and academia. I am Parasuram Balasubramanyan, Purdue doctoral degree holder in industrial engineering in 1977. I am a Purdue engineer.