 I like to joke that San Francisco stole my heart. I love the exciting mix of people, of applications, of industries. It's a really exciting place to work. Pretty much anything that you want to accomplish within a particular product or service or area, it's possible. It's just about talking to the right people. It's about getting some traction on your ideas. I think that's what is refreshing about working in Silicon Valley. Growing up, I was always interested in technology and computers and kind of the intersection of like IT and people. I think I'm a little bit unique in that I came to Syracuse really for the iSchool. My junior year, I spent interning in San Francisco for a company called Cisco Meraki which focuses on cloud-based computer networking products and that kind of sparked my interest in infrastructure. So after I completed that internship, I was looking for jobs and I came across a role at Google. Now that looked exciting, so I ended up applying for it. I've been at Google now for about six years. Today I work on a team that focuses on supporting Google's employees allowing them to get their work done through our internal systems and tools and I really enjoy my job. I think I'm so fortunate to be passionate about what I work on. It's such a large company with such impressive internal infrastructure that some of the challenges that we have to work with are just really fascinating. My job while it entails supporting and building out and scaling infrastructure it also involves working with people, setting up a project plan, defining project milestones, kind of sorting out what it takes to get something done from start to finish. So it's kind of a perfect match, right, because I got kind of this really interesting blend of coursework from the iSchool that was relevant to my career. I'm really excited to see how the iSchool continues to grow and kind of what the next step is in terms of curriculum, in terms of student experiences. I feel strongly that students should have really great opportunities. So one way that I like to stay involved is by hosting Spring Break in Silicon Valley. Students of all majors get to come and spend a full week in Silicon Valley touring different tech companies. And it's so refreshing because all I have to do is reach out and say, hey, a group of students would like to come and immediately I get so many responses. It's like we can barely handle the number of alumni who want to kind of connect with these students and give back. I'm always willing to help students, students who want to get their career started out here. Students who are interested in roles at places like Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix. I want them to be able to get those roles, right? I want them to be able to experience things like life in the Bay Area. I'm pretty happy with where I'm at in my career today, but there's no way that could have happened without the help of a lot of different people. In the spirit of giving that back, I look for any opportunity I can get to kind of help a student get where they want to go.