Ian

"I was fascinated by it. I loved it."

"I essentially am doing a lot of research and development work."

"I try to keep a tasker list going of what I need to accomplish that day, what I need to accomplish that week, and some of the other milestones that I'm working towards."

"Asking questions and asking the right questions, and clearly communicating what you need, has been instrumental in my success."

"there's a lot of ways to, uh, be able to attain knowledge or to, uh, fix something or to present something"

"Getting the workforce to kind of understand cybersecurity and security in general from both sides, integrating them together is a huge challenge."

"you constantly have to learn and ask questions"

"It's a willingness to learn. It's a willingness to fail, um, and to continue on."

"it's okay that you don't know everything. There's just too much to know. You cannot be an expert on day one, and that's absolutely fine."

"Leveraging, if there're career fairs, I'm sure there are a ton of, uh, uh, those can open up opportunities like internships."

"It's okay not to know everything. It's okay to start from ground level, and it's okay to build upon your experiences, your failures, your successes."

"Learning how to maintain and foster relationships that are mutually beneficial, whether it was schoolwork, projects, and then eventually into a career, I was able to use some of those relationships in my network to help me get my first job."