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1		-I started in tech at the age of 15 as an MIS Technician in a Microsoft shop. Windows NT 4.0 was brand new. This was my first job in tech and I was having a blast, but I felt limited by the software. Fast forward three years, I was working for an internet service provider when I discovered Linux (Red Hat Linux 5.1 was my first distro). It felt liberating to have a standard toolset that included 90% of the tools I needed to do my work.
	1	+I started in tech at the age of 15 as an MIS Technician in a Microsoft shop. Windows NT 4.0 was brand new. This was my first job in tech and I was having a blast, but I felt limited by the software. Fast forward three years, I was working for an internet service provider when I discovered Linux (Red Hat Linux 5.1 was my first distro). It felt liberating to have a standard toolset that included almost all of the tools I needed to do my work out of the box.
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3	3	The dot-com bubble burst and with no other options, off to the US Air Force for a technical role I went. Once in technical training, it was surprising to see how unstable and insecure the systems were (these were government systems, right?). Months later, at my first duty station, a role in Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2000 was my assignment. This Experiment was to test new ways to adapt to changing conditions in the battlespace, which included red/blue infosec teams trying to ward each other off. We hit a problem with some new network gear and the monitoring system we were using. We knew attacks were imminent. There were many interfaces across the network that we couldn't monitor because our monitoring system required additional licenses to monitor SNMP devices. Enter open source software: I ran an idea I had up my chain of command. My mentor and I went off and grabbed a handful of parts off an equipment self. We built a modest Red Hat Linux server. I spent a week carrying around a book titled, 'Unix Hints and Hacks' much to the chagrin of senior leadership. "Who was this hacker in our NOSC experimenting with new equipment and that evil Linux thing?"
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