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We hope you enjoy this trek down memory lane as we present some of the best bits from Season 1 of ASCII Anything. Grab the cheesecake out of the fridge and meet us on the lanai as we channel our inner Golden Girls to squeeze one more episode of Season 1 out of our existing material. Host Angel Leon does his best Dorothy Sbornak and keeps everything organized and on track while Producer Brian digs deep for his best Sophia Petrillo, "Picture it...Indianapolis, 2021..." Season 2 will premiere in July. Until then, so long everybody!

S1E22: Best of Season 1 - A "Golden Girls" Style 'Clips' Show

Organizations face increasing pressure to fast-track the introduction of new products and services to maintain their market positions. This could mean that It is time for executives to look at enterprise-level solutions to get results with digital transformation. Today, host Angel Leon is joined by Moser expert Marcus Reed and Atlassian's Ken Urban to discuss this pressure and the solutions Atlassian can provide.

Ken has twenty years of experience in the IT industry. He started his career fixing computers at the University of Pittsburgh and held several different positions there. He then did a short stint as a defense contractor, writing code on various projects ranging from simple signal deconfliction to complex control systems. Just before joining Atlassian, he served ten years in public service as a civil servant within the Intelligence community working to build and maintain one of the largest and most complex multi-tenant Hadoop cloud systems. He has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and is a certified flight instructor. He also serves on the board for his local flying club. 

Ken Urban

Atlassian Solutions Engineer

Marcus specializes in offering and providing technology and methodology evolution together as a holistic and internally cohesive solution. His clients range from start-ups to Fortune 50 and TOPIX 70 members. Within this program, Moser offers Production Ecosystem Design, Solution Architecture, Tools Administration, Workflow Automation, Agile coaching, DevOps Coordination, Implementation of Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) and more.

Marcus Reed

Leader of Moser Consulting's Operations Design

S1E21: How To Modernize Collaboration Work Management Tools At An Enterprise Level Regardless Of Industry

Listen in on one of our Tech Talk Thursday panels as Ansible Experts answer questions submitted from our Tech Talk Thursday audience.

Jim is a Chief Architect at Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source software solutions. He is part of the North American channel solutions architecture group, responsible for helping customers solve the most difficult and challenging problems they face. 

Jim Garrett

Chief Architect at Red Hat

Estelle Lissouck is a senior consultant and Linux system engineer at Mosher consulting, focusing on the Red Hat Ansible automation platform and is a Linux systems engineer, having expertise in Red Hat, CentOS, and Solaris. She has been working as an IT professional for over nine years and she enjoys using her skills to contribute to the exciting technological advances in her community. Estelle also has expertise in virtualization techniques using AWS, VMware and Red Hat tools.

Estelle Lissouck

Senior Consultant and Linux System Engineer at Moser Consulting

Lewis Gordner is a principal consultant and technology lead for Unix and Linux systems at Mosher Consulting. He has 17 years of experience as a solutions architect for open systems focusing on system infrastructure, cloud architecture, server automation, and software deployment and administration, both operationally and dev ops. He's a Red Hat certified engineer and an AWS certified solutions architect. Louis is also a certified specialist in Ansible automation. 

Louis Gordner

Principal Consultant and Technology Lead at Moser Consulting

S1E20: Red Hat Experts Answer Your Ansible Questions

In this week's episode we explore the favorite vacation spots of some of Moser's consultants.&nbsp;We sent out an employee survey to learn our colleagues' favorite spots when it comes to taking time off and unwinding. Producer Brian joins Angel to discuss the survey and they are joined by 3 of Moser's consultants who drop in to discuss their favorite places.

Brian is the producer of ASCII Anything. He records and edits all of our episodes while also creating other audio and video projects at Moser. 

Brian Gentrup

Multimedia Creative Specialist / ASCII Anything Producer

Jennifer O'Quinn

Consultant

Marc Brickley

Director

Sheri Garvin

Senior Consultant

S1E19: Discussing Destinations: Where Do Tech People Go to Take Some Time Offline? 

Moser's VP of Data &amp; Analytics, Shaun McAdams, talks about the evolution of Data Architecture for Analytic Workloads with Tim Lortz, a Senior Solutions Architect from Databricks, a data and AI company that helps data teams solve the world’s toughest problems.

Tim Lortz is a senior solutions architect with Databricks' federal team. He works with government leaders, architects, engineers, and data scientists to harness the power of their data by leveraging open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and the Python and R machine learning ecosystems. His current focus is primarily on federal healthcare agencies. Prior to Databricks, Tim practiced as a data scientist and led data science teams at Defense and Intelligence agencies for over 15 years. He holds an MS and PhD in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Tim Lortz

Databricks Senior Solutions Architect 

S1E18: The Evolution of Data Architecture for Analytics Workloads: A Discussion with Databricks

This week, Shaun McAdams and Warren Sifre continue their discussion of the pillars of Data &amp; Analytics. This time their focus is on the people who fill the teams that address each of those pillars. Who to recruit, what to look for, and how important keeping those people is once you find them are all covered in this week's episode of ASCII Anything.

Warren Sifre has been involved in the IT community since 1998 and has worked in a variety of industries.  Warren is Chapter Leader for a couple of User Groups and speaks at many conferences and user groups throughout the United States.  Warren has a passion for data architectures and solutions.  Serving as Director, he is helping advance the adoption of true Data Strategy in every engagement.

Warren Sifre

Director of Strategy

Shaun McAdams came to Moser in 2015 to help establish a division focused on Data & Analytics.  Serving as a Principal Consultant, Engagement Manager, Director and now Vice President, he has helped advance the Data & Analytics services to over 80 clients, 100 engagements, across many diverse platforms.

Shaun McAdams

Vice President of Data & Analytics

S1E17: Data & Analytics: People, People, People-Who To Recruit, How To Find Them, And How To Keep Them

One advantage of having so many tech experts at Moser Consulting is that a lot of us have cool friends in our network. Debbie Schilling is one of those friends. Debbie retired a couple of years ago after spending her career in development. She's a former VP of Development at Orchard Software, a world-traveler, and a gardener. She joins us today to talk through the evolution of opportunities for women in the tech field over the years and we even delve into making a smooth transition into retirement.

Debbie spent more than 30 years developing banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, and laboratory software applications, She spent the final 18 years of her career at Orchard Software in Carmel, Indiana where she focused on software for laboratory information systems and rose to the level of Executive Vice President of Development before retiring in 2017.

 

Debbie Schilling

EVP of Development at Orchard Software (Retired)

S1E16: Interest and Aptitude, Lists, and The Ability To Interrupt- A Women's Guide To Tech Success with Debbie Schilling

Moser's Director of Learning, Lou Russell is joining us again. This time, we're discussing emotional intelligence or EQ as it's commonly known. What is EQ? Who invented it?&nbsp;Can you change your EQ? Those are some of the questions that we will be discussing in today's episode.

Lou Russell

Director of Learning at Moser Consulting

S1E15: Knowing And Respecting Your Limits -  Emotional Intelligence with Lou Russell

President and CEO of Moser Consulting, Ty Moser, joins us today to talk about our company's 25th anniversary and how Moser has evolved throughout the years as one of Indiana's powerhouses in IT consulting. We cover his origins in tech, what led him to start his own consulting company, and some of the lessons he's learned over the past 25 years.

After graduating from a small, northern Indiana school, Ty Moser went to Purdue University to major in Computer Technology.

After graduation, he moved to Midland, Michigan, to work for Dow Corning. Later Ty and his wife moved to Indiana where he worked for Boerhinger-Mannheim as a senior data engineer.

Ty founded Moser Consulting in 1996 after leaving corporate life. As the business has grown, Ty has kept the company ideals the same: work hard, serve happily, and give back generously. Today, Ty spends his time developing client relationships, mentoring leadership in the organization, and focusing on the company’s mission and long-term growth.

Ty Moser

President and CEO - Moser Consulting

S1E14: Flannel Shirts Have Gone Out Of Style And Come Back In Again - 25 Years of Moser Consulting

In this week’s episode of ASCII Anything, we talk to Moser Consulting’s resident expert, Estelle Lissouck, about IT Automation.<ul><li>Reasons to Choose IT Automation</li><li>Improve What Already Works Through Automation</li><li>Making Clients Happy, Keeping Clients Happy</li><li>IT Automation Helps Teams of Any Size</li><li>Driving Costs Down Through IT Automation</li></ul>

Estelle is a senior consultant and linux system Engineer at Moser Consulting, focusing on the red hat ansible automation platform. Estelle is originally from Cameroon, in Central Africa.  She has been working as an IT professional for over 9 years and she enjoys using her skills to contribute to the exciting technological advances in her community.  Estelle is a Linux System Engineer, having expertise in Red Hat, CentOS, and Solaris.  She also has expertise in virtualization techniques using AWS and VMWare and Red Hat tools.  Estelle loves teaching, and she volunteers at a nonprofit organization where free IT training and equipment are provided to less privileged individuals and minorities, mostly in developing countries in Africa. 


Senior Consultant, Red Hat Ansible and Linux

S1E13: Automatic, Systematic, Hyyyyydromatic... Discussing IT Automation with Estelle Lissouck

This week we are joined by two of Moser's top Data and Analytics experts who are going to talk about the mindset a company should have regarding data and analytics strategy. Shaun McAdams is Moser's Vice President of Data &amp; Analytics and Warren Sifre is the Director of Strategy within Moser's Data &amp; Analytics group.

S1E12: Mind The Gap - Plugging The Most Common Holes In Data & Analytics Strategies

This week's discussion is with Moser's Director of Quality, Alphia Stephens.&nbsp;It may sound simple, but quality is a complex and ever-evolving challenge. In today's episode, we take a deep dive into Quality and some of its components.&nbsp;And we're very fortunate to have Alphia join us.

Alphia is the Director of Quality Management for Moser Consulting. She is an accomplished Sr. Project Manager and Sr. Systems Business Analyst, leveraging an extensive technical background to guide strategic decisions within an organization. She is an experienced federal contractor with notable expertise in the healthcare arena. She also has several years of successfully overseeing software application development and quality assurance; managing technical and non-technical employees and contractors, including mentoring and personnel development.  

Alphia Stephens

Director of Quality Management

S1E11: QS & QA & QC Oh My: Finding Our Way To The Emerald City of Quality With Alphia Stevens

This week we talk with Dr. Carlotta Berry about increasing diversity in STEM. ﻿Dr. Berry co-founded Rose-Hulman’s Building Undergraduate Diversity (RoseBUD) program, which encourages students from underrepresented groups to seek STEM careers; helped student scholars organize an annual SPARK! campus event that brings together high school and college students to work on hands-on projects (this year’s virtual event is scheduled for March 20); and has been co-director of the institute’s multidisciplinary robotics academic program.&nbsp;At Rose-Hulman, Berry has taught courses from mobile robotics to human/robot interaction to electrical engineering design. She has encouraged students to learn by tinkering, hacking, and making mistakes. She has even shipped low-cost kits to students’ homes to facilitate online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp;

Dr. Berry is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Spelman College, a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a master’s in electrical engineering from Wayne State University, and a PhD from Vanderbilt University. She is one of a team of faculty in ECE, ME and CSSE at Rose-Hulman to create and direct the first multidisciplinary minor in robotics. She is the Co-Director of the NSF S-STEM Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) Program and advisor for the National Society of Black Engineers. She is also the President of the Technical Editor Board for the ASEE Computers in Education Journal. She has taught undergraduate courses in Human-Robot Interaction, Mobile Robotics, circuits, controls, signals and systems, as well as freshman and senior design. Her research interests are in robotics education, interface design, human-robot interaction, and increasing underrepresented populations in STEM fields.

Dr. Carlotta Berry

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

S1E10: Dr. Carlotta Berry of the Rose-Hulman Institute Discusses Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

It's not easy being Green. Especially in Technology. A technology company has all of the normal environmental concerns as any other office such as using paper, resources like lighting and heating an office space. But tech has more responsibilities. Computers use a lot of power. Data centers full of Servers use a lot of power. They produce a lot of heat that has to be cooled all year round. And computer hardware uses a lot of resources in their production. Parts of computer equipment are made from toxic materials such as lead, mercury, and PCBs. Those need to be responsibly sourced and&nbsp;disposed of properly. Green IT is a complicated ball of string to unravel.

Malinda is Moser's marketing team manager. As a creative specialist in Indianapolis for the past 25 years, she has done marketing work for retail stores, non-profits, radio stations, and technology companies. In addition to leading the Moser marketing team, she has also supported conservation initiatives and started green programs at Moser.

Malinda Lowder

Marketing Team Manager

S1E9: Green IT - Malinda Lowder Discusses Dramatically Reducing Energy Usage To Save Money And The Planet

Shaun and Warren return to continue their discussion and dive deeper into Defining a Data & Analytics Strategy for your organization. Today, the focus is on how that process works.

Moser Consulting Vice President of Data & Analytics

Warren Sifre has been involved the IT community since 1998 and has worked in a variety of industries.  Warren is Chapter Leader for a couple of User Groups and speaks at many conferences and user groups throughout the United States.  Warren has a passion for data architectures and solutions.  Serving as Director, he is helping advance the adoption of true Data Strategy in every engagement.

Moser Consulting Director of Strategy for Data & Analytics

S1E8: Building A Data & Analytics Strategy - Progress Through Process with Shaun McAdams and Warren Sifre

This week's guest is Marcus Reed, Moser's Operations Design leader. He's going to help us better understand Radical Transparency and how it helps improve performance from a company and individual perspective by increasing autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Marcus is the leader of Moser's Operations Design Team. They provide technology and methodology evolution together as a holistic and internally cohesive solution with clients that range from start-ups to Fortune 50 and TOPIX 70 members. The program offers Production Ecosystem Design, Solution Architecture, Tools Administration, Workflow Automation, QA Automation, Agile Coaching, DevOps Coordination, Implementation of the Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) and more.

Moser Consulting Operations Design Leader

S1E7: Radical Transparency: How Winning The Information Lottery Shifts Focus To The Value We Create

Managed Services, Part Deux: Jim Timberman and Chadd Wheat had so much fun during their first podcast appearance they came back for more!

This eposide deals with disaster recovery and backups for your business. Yes, you should probably have a business continuity plan, but what should that plan entail? How often should you backup your data and how do you determine what is critical and what you can get by without?  

Jim has been at Moser Consulting for 6 years and is a results-oriented business professional with an outstanding track record of delivering cost-effective Technology Solutions. He has led Moser Managed Services in becoming a trusted resource for IT Help Desk and Managed Services solutions for dozens of companies, from small to large and in many industry verticals.

Jim Timberman

Managed Services Managing Director

Chadd has been with Moser Consulting for 10 years. He's currently a Principal Consultant with a background in Infrastructure Services Enterprise Monitoring and Team Leadership. 

He was recently promoted to the position of Service Desk Manager at Moser and is responsible for managing our ticketing system and processes, while also ensuring that Moser Managed Services meet and exceed customer expectations on a daily basis.

Chadd Wheat

Principal Consultant and Team Manager

S1E6: Disaster Recovery and Backups - Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't After You

Two of Moser's top Data & Analytics experts talk about defining your organization's Data & Analytics strategy and the origins of our approach. 

Shaun McAdams came to Moser in 2015 to help establish a division focused on Data & Analytics.  Serving as a Principal Consultant, Engagement Manager, Director and now Vice President, he has helped advance the Data & Analytics services to over 80 clients, 100 engagements, across many diverse platforms.


S1E5: Defining a Data & Analytics Strategy - Lessons Learned and the Evolution of our Approach

Red Hat expert Jim Garrett joins us to work through the ins and outs of Red Hat's Quarkus, a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that's made for Java virtual machines (JVMs) and native compilation, optimizing Java specifically for containers and enabling it to become an effective platform for serverless, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.

By the end of the episode, you'll know what that means and you'll have learned about the advantages that serverless computing brings to your business operations and your bottom line.

Jim Garrett is a Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat. He's part of the North American Channel Solutions Architecture Group and is responsible for helping customers solve the most difficult and challenging problems they face. 

Jim believes in using technology to empower others through open communication, sharing of knowledge, and the liberal use of open-source.

Principal Solution Architect - Red Hat

S1E4: Red Hat Expert Insights: What is Quarkus, Anyway? And What Do I Need to know about Serverless Computing?

Host Angel Leon talks about the IT Helpdesk with Moser Consulting experts Jim Timberman and Chadd Wheat. Their discussion covers IT stereotypes, maintaining constant vigilance against hackers, and good ways to avoid security breaches, such as trusting absolutely nothing you see, hear, or read...

Principal Consultant and Service Desk Manager at Moser Consulting

Managed Services Managing Director at Moser Consulting

S1E3: Spam, Scams, and Sabotage: Tales of Adventure from the IT Helpdesk

Host Angel Leon welcomes Lou Russell, Moser Consulting’s Managing Director of Learning, to talk about the challenges and learning opportunities that exist for IT Leadership. Their discussion covers a wide range of topics, including failing your way to success, no one being born a leader, and some of the demands and decisions those who aspire to lead will face. For example…letting go of the day-to-day programming or other hands-on IT work in order to have the time and focus to lead.

Lou Russell is Duchess/Practice  Director of Learning of RMA, a Moser Consulting company.  As an executive consultant, speaker and author she channels her passion by creating  growth in companies through their people. Lou inspires greatness in leadership, projects, emotional intelligence and teams.  She is the author of 9 popular books on IT, HR and Project Management including IT Leadership Alchemy.

Practice Director of Learning Services

S1E2: Discussing IT Leadership, Leadership Training, and Other Leadership Trends with Lou Russell

Host Angel Leon takes you through some of the tech gift suggestions we gathered by surveying the tech experts who work at Moser Consulting.  From high-tech drones to kitchen gadgets and even the best thing since sliced bread, because it was inspired by sliced bread, we'll take you through our favorite seven options that represent a wide range of price points. 

You might just find the perfect thing to give the technology fan in your life!

Brian is the producer of ASCII Anything and a Multimedia Creative Specialist at Moser Consulting.

Multimedia Creative Specialist

S1E1: Gifts That The Technology Fans In Your Life Will Like

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