Seems reasonable. My name is Mat (yes, just one ‘T’ – but if you see typos, still let me know).

Way better question! I’m an IT Project Manager, and I started this journey as a Management Consultant – which was also my first IT congruent position.

My first dedicated IT position was with a Fortune 100 company in the Healthcare sector, where I gained an awesome opportunity to see DevOps cycles in a massive organization, and one with moves very quickly with creating subsidiaries in market gaps.

While I probably wont share the specific industry I’m in, major projects also can include large organizational change management, financial planning, business case analysis, and gaining technical knowledge quickly.

Getting to the deep questions here.

It’s completely free… So, why not?

My entire life, I remember hearing people say ‘if you can teach it, you understand it’. I never truly understood what that meant until fairly recently. 

I had never considered that to mean anything deeper than ‘if you can repeat it, you know it!’. I hit plenty examples where that punched me directly in the face.

I can’t say it hit me, but I started to slowly realize – while I was reading and trying to strengthen my IT knowledge, I kept tying ideas back to Business and Finance applications.

Once, we were hitting an insane misunderstanding on requirements between the Business and IT. The classic misunderstanding of timelines with Business requirements and IT processes – no one had the bandwidth to complete any of the processing applications, but the deadline to have the downstream systems was right on our heels.

Most of us have heard this comparison before, but I explained the issue by explaining it in manufacturing terms – you wouldn’t believe the number of light bulbs I watched go off in that room.

Am I an expert? No.
But this helps me learn, and help you stay up to date. And hey, you might even understand more of those weird words in your next meeting.