What is your occupation? My job is hard to define, I've been trying to write my job description for my managers so that they know exactly what I do. lol. I'm a "network architect" for IBM, I design and implement connectivity between IBM and various business process outsourcing customers. I'm the guy that gets an IBM employee sitting in an IBM office in India, Brazil, Philippines, etc. connected to internal applications on our customer's (multiple) networks without actually being on their network. For example, If you need to be able to connect to SAP at another company without actually being onsite at that company, I'm your guy. If you are sitting in Chicago, but need to print in Bangalore, India... I'm your guy.

Put your location, if you like. I work from home in the Houston, Texas area and travel about 20% of the time.

How did you get into it? I've been into computers since about 1985, had every switch of every DOS command memorized before most people knew what DOS was... and I still go back to the command prompt when I am in a hurry to do something. Nowadays there are a lot more commands and a lot more switches, so I no longer have them memorized. I started out in desktop support and worked my way up from there. I have always been a logical thinker, and feel it is my responsibility to solve every technical problem in the world whether it is my job or not. lol. (The logical thinking seems to get me in trouble with religion though... truth should always be the truth, not this, if 2+2 doesn't equal 4 then you just don't pray enough stuff... if you pray more then it will equal 4. If something is the truth, it should be the truth whether you pray 0 hours a day or 24 hours a day).

Is it what you were originally trained in/got your degree in? I went through the US Navy Advanced Electonics school in the early 90's, and refined my troubleshooting skills there... this has naturally carried over to computers and networking.

Any interesting career moves/changes along the way? Nope, steady progression within the technical arena.