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I just recently obtained my Master's in information systems management.
From Indiana Wesleyan University.
So it's another progression that kind of works well with my role here at Wellpoint,
where I'm an IT program manager. Right now I'm actually
working with some of the coolest stuff on the market.
I'm the program manager for our Watson initiative.
And our partnership with IBM solutions
using artificial intelligence and medical management systems.
When you look at diversity in general, I think the best way to sum it up is equality.
It's really not anything be diverse as much as it is everybody being on a level playing field.
When you look at disability in diversity, that's just another element to add to it.
The same people who work hard to try to make something of themselves
will tell you the same thing over and over.
That they're not really looking for any type of special treatment
or a leg up by any means. They're looking for a level playing field.
And the opportunity to be on the same path as those folks who may not be all that different.
And by adding that element of diversity I think you also make your team stronger,
because you never really allow your team just to grow by one person.
You want somebody to bring a new element to the game.
And by adding any type of diversity... and disability is very highly attractive.
Especially in healthcare management.
You get that extra element of, just another angle of perspective.
In how people see things or how they might go about things.
Never limit yourself, because there's more and more technology
interjecting itself in everything. So, IT, yeah, that's a good career path.
But no matter what you do anymore it's going to be very technologically advanced.
Because that's just the way of the future.
And you're going to find ways with technology to help you
in any career path that you would choose.
Be it in communications, business, mathematics, anything.
So I would just advise people not to limit yourself. Go with your strengths.
And when I say strengths it's not the things that you're able to do with a disability you have.
It's the things that you're mentally capable of. The best advice I could say is,
do something that allows you to work with your mind and not your back.
Because that's going to put you in a position to excel.
I'm energetic, I'm also very pro-active,
and more than anything I would say that
the last word that you could use to describe me is progressive.