Doug Sullinger

Well, thanks for the time, Brian.

I started my career in Midwest Ohio as a farm boy, hardworking, understood the value of a hard day's work.

I was supposed to go off and be a farmer when I went to college and I found software and computers.

And I realized back then that

that it doesn't really matter what kind of technologies you're looking at.

Technologies are there to improve human processes.

And so as I went through college, I quickly switched over to technology world, ended up with a company called Dun & Bradstreet, which a lot of people know.

Moved from there off into some of the largest corporations in the world.

At the time, Gartner, which is like a large

Consumer's report for technology picked me up because they were owned by Dun & Bradstreet.

And then I got to kind of drink from the fire hose.

And that was what technology on every topic, whether it be networking, software development, application development.

And I got a really strong understanding of how technology was put together and then ultimately how it was applied to different business problems.

That then took me into working for IBM, ultimately working with General Motors as one of my clients.

And at one point in time, I was responsible for all the software that went into those companies.

And so I really understood what the difference was of...

being a developer and what the business problem was.

I was the guy that sat in the middle.

I was never the guy that did the coding.

I understood what the coders did, but I also tried to understand what the business processes were that people had.