Power BI Dashboards Are Only as Good as the Person Who Understands the Data
At T-Mobile, our Power BI team could build any chart or visualization you asked for. Brilliant coders who loved data. However, they had no idea what the data actually meant. For example, they’d build a dashboard showing network incident trends by region. Beautiful color gradients. Interactive filters. On the surface, it looked polished. Yet the […]
What I’m Looking For in 2026
After 25+ years across Navy electronics, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Ericsson — plus a recent healthcare detour — here’s what I’m looking for next. The Fit Matters More Than the Title Over the years, I’ve worn many titles: Network Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technology Architect, Sales Agent. Yet titles never defined me. What matters is the work […]
From Latchkey Kid to Navy Electronics Technician — The Start of a 25-Year Career
Growing up, I was a latchkey kid who barely scraped through high school. College felt like the next step, so I enrolled in community college and earned an associate degree. Honestly, it was all I knew at the time. Eventually, I started looking at the military. The Coast Guard was my first stop, so I […]
How I would answer some common interview questions.
Could you tell me about yourself and describe your background in brief? I was a latch key kid who grew up in a small town, joined the US Navy as an Electronics Technician and married my high school sweetheart. After leaving the military, I have spent the past 20 plus years working for Sprint, Ericsson […]