WEBVTT 00:08.640 --> 00:11.270 I have worked for D . L . A . for in 00:11.270 --> 00:14.830 September it will be 39 years . Um 00:14.840 --> 00:17.180 right out of college I took the civil 00:17.180 --> 00:19.950 service test which was the thing to do 00:20.440 --> 00:24.430 back at that time and um expecting to 00:24.430 --> 00:26.597 go to work for the post office that my 00:26.597 --> 00:29.650 father worked for . Instead I received 00:29.650 --> 00:32.500 a job offer from the defense supply 00:32.500 --> 00:36.060 center columbus and um 00:36.640 --> 00:40.380 I accepted a temporary GS three clerk 00:40.380 --> 00:44.380 typist position there . What the time 00:44.380 --> 00:46.500 it was D . C . S . C . Defence 00:46.500 --> 00:48.980 construction supply center . It was 00:48.990 --> 00:51.650 electric writers with carbon paper . 00:52.140 --> 00:54.362 And truth be told I was not a very good 00:54.362 --> 00:56.490 tightest and it was a very stressful 00:56.490 --> 00:59.760 job for me which thankfully after three 00:59.760 --> 01:01.927 months I was reassigned to the D . L . 01:01.927 --> 01:04.240 A . Systems asian center there in 01:04.240 --> 01:07.350 columbus as an input output clerk where 01:07.350 --> 01:09.517 I did not have to use making skills as 01:09.517 --> 01:12.070 much . I was made permanent as a G . S . 01:12.070 --> 01:14.540 Three and put output clerk there . De 01:14.540 --> 01:17.800 Sac clump and now I am a GS 14 . I 01:17.800 --> 01:21.540 worked my way up two , two GS 01:21.540 --> 01:24.260 4 and then I began I accepted 01:24.940 --> 01:28.790 I I was able to into the intern program 01:28.790 --> 01:32.760 there at de Sac you . So that was a 579 01:32.760 --> 01:35.990 event progression After completing the 01:35.990 --> 01:38.470 intern program I became a UNIX 01:38.470 --> 01:42.330 administrator in D . C . T . Uh as a 01:42.330 --> 01:45.250 GS 11 I was promoted to the G . S . 12 01:45.260 --> 01:48.730 there and then from de sac T . 01:48.740 --> 01:51.350 I um accepted a position over in de 01:51.350 --> 01:55.200 l'europe and and meets . We spotted 01:55.350 --> 01:59.090 the Spotting and minds starting out of 01:59.090 --> 02:01.180 the clerk typist using the electric 02:01.180 --> 02:04.500 typewriter and carbon paper . Um now to 02:04.500 --> 02:07.760 where we have instant messaging 02:07.770 --> 02:10.940 and um teams and virtual 02:10.940 --> 02:14.890 meetings . It's just The last 02:14.890 --> 02:17.250 39 years . I mean technology has just 02:17.250 --> 02:20.110 exploded and I can only imagine it will 02:20.120 --> 02:23.070 continue to explode while I was in 02:23.070 --> 02:25.160 europe . Um we deployed the first 02:25.160 --> 02:28.790 firewalls over there protecting , you 02:28.790 --> 02:31.820 know , the DLS computers and networks 02:31.840 --> 02:35.550 from the outside . Um and 02:35.560 --> 02:38.650 so that created the crunchy shell if 02:38.650 --> 02:41.070 you will , that protects D . L . A . 02:41.080 --> 02:43.590 From the outside world . Um with the 02:43.590 --> 02:46.660 firewalls and the firewalls have 02:46.660 --> 02:50.110 only increased and we've only 02:50.110 --> 02:52.680 added more defense and death measures 02:52.680 --> 02:55.340 to protect the de Ella computers and 02:55.340 --> 02:56.950 networks . Since then 02:59.340 --> 03:01.670 we brought our desktop computers , this 03:01.670 --> 03:04.730 the ethernet cables , the satellite kit 03:04.740 --> 03:08.460 and we we deployed the neck 03:08.470 --> 03:12.030 and got that the communications set up 03:12.040 --> 03:14.900 for the contingency team uh so that 03:14.900 --> 03:18.860 they could Communicate back to what 03:18.860 --> 03:21.390 was at the time since before this was 03:21.390 --> 03:24.180 before our enterprise business system . 03:24.180 --> 03:27.760 So Sam's and DS two 03:28.240 --> 03:31.960 uh make the process the purchase orders 03:31.960 --> 03:35.920 for the supplies for the um war 03:35.920 --> 03:38.198 fighters that were deployed down range . 03:39.540 --> 03:42.370 We didn't have the Internet um when I 03:42.370 --> 03:46.090 started back in the 80s , uh that 03:46.090 --> 03:48.750 really came into play during the 90's 03:49.140 --> 03:53.010 when , you know , the boom really 03:53.010 --> 03:55.950 happened and we were interconnected . 03:56.340 --> 04:00.060 Um that that changed way . Um 04:00.740 --> 04:04.560 we looked at processing our 04:05.340 --> 04:08.060 our um procurement 04:08.940 --> 04:12.480 and and our trade actions 04:12.480 --> 04:16.180 over . It was no longer a 04:16.190 --> 04:19.570 batch system . like we have , we were 04:19.570 --> 04:23.170 able to do it connect are 04:23.180 --> 04:25.910 are applications so that everything 04:25.910 --> 04:28.280 flowed seamlessly over the internet 04:28.290 --> 04:31.710 that that we didn't even realize 04:31.720 --> 04:33.750 the processing what's happening 04:35.940 --> 04:39.610 from the supply side . Um What 04:39.610 --> 04:42.900 what my perspective was from the 04:42.910 --> 04:46.860 side , what we first saw it 04:47.740 --> 04:51.200 really at um During 911 04:51.210 --> 04:55.060 because by that time um the joint 04:55.840 --> 04:58.120 joint task force glow network 04:58.130 --> 05:01.360 operations uh J T F G N O . 05:02.040 --> 05:05.980 Was set up under the U . S . 05:05.980 --> 05:08.360 Cyber com . Um 05:09.840 --> 05:13.280 I'm Brooke at the D . O . D . Level so 05:13.280 --> 05:16.450 that during that time they had also 05:16.460 --> 05:20.290 there did directing the agencies and 05:20.300 --> 05:24.140 and services on how to react to certain 05:24.140 --> 05:26.890 events and what protections needed to 05:26.890 --> 05:30.860 be in place . So we really saw it 9 11 05:30.870 --> 05:34.820 where Mhm . It was unknown 05:34.820 --> 05:38.100 what the adversary was and what they 05:38.100 --> 05:41.250 were trying to do and um 05:41.940 --> 05:44.910 we received directions to close down 05:45.340 --> 05:48.960 ports on the firewall in and access 05:48.970 --> 05:52.650 and um but yet for de 05:52.650 --> 05:55.770 LA whose business is very much with the 05:55.770 --> 05:59.350 commercial world , we had to 05:59.940 --> 06:03.060 work with JTF GTmo and disa 06:03.240 --> 06:06.740 to to figure out that operational 06:06.740 --> 06:09.040 balance well we can't shut down to the 06:09.040 --> 06:11.910 internet because our mission requires 06:11.910 --> 06:15.890 it . So it was , it definitely 06:15.890 --> 06:19.260 a learning time , I'll be 06:19.260 --> 06:21.890 honest when I started as at GS three 06:21.890 --> 06:24.850 temporary types . This was my 06:25.540 --> 06:28.720 job to keep money in my pocket and 06:28.720 --> 06:31.960 something better came along and then 06:32.840 --> 06:36.260 the opportunities that I've had here at , 06:36.740 --> 06:40.660 at LA , my college major was accounting 06:41.740 --> 06:45.420 a cybersecurity . So everything I've 06:45.420 --> 06:48.560 learned I've learned from , through 06:48.560 --> 06:52.010 like and at every 06:52.010 --> 06:54.660 point I can look back and see 06:56.040 --> 06:59.990 people who were interested in 06:59.990 --> 07:03.200 me , interested in me and kind and 07:03.200 --> 07:05.530 showed me things that helped me 07:05.530 --> 07:07.750 progress to the next level . 07:09.340 --> 07:11.590 The opportunities I lived in Germany 07:11.590 --> 07:14.460 for five years . I've been to Hawaii 07:14.840 --> 07:18.630 I've been to every Major J six 07:18.630 --> 07:20.680 site Conus . 07:23.340 --> 07:26.750 I time and and actually I blinked and 07:26.750 --> 07:29.660 here I am 30 years , 38 years later . 07:30.040 --> 07:33.220 So , but the work is always 07:33.220 --> 07:35.760 challenging . It's always interesting . 07:36.240 --> 07:38.400 Uh , people have been wonderful . I 07:38.400 --> 07:42.330 mean , it just , I never really had an 07:42.340 --> 07:43.750 inclination to leave .