Zach

"concurrently I'm by Lieutenant Colonel and a veterinarian in the Civil Affairs Command"

"One of the things that the vet's done from its inception was looking really at the evidence base that's out there and base the decisions and the guidance of what we do from the ground up in that medical evidence."

"Every day I'm looking at ways that we can improve the medical care that we're trying to deliver out there."

"You need to be a good communicator. You need to be able to be a good listener. You need to have empathy. You need to have compassion."

"Feeling like I make a difference. Feeling like people want to hear what I have to say."

"The competition's really tough out there right now, and people could be fickle."

"The best thing about the industry is the people that you work with."

"And when opportunity knocks, I would say answer that door. At least have the conversation because you never know what's going to be through it, and it might lead to the next career for you."

"if you've got 10 people who are all graduating, all excellent dbms, and you've got one of those that has a, an MBA on top of it, well if that one's gonna work its way to the top,"

"There's a lot of different things that people can do."

"I keep an open mind. You just never know what things are going to bring."

"So looking for diverse activities, diversity in class, diversity in people, break out of the things that you normally do and the people that you would normally hang out with."

"People coming from everywhere are going to bring something unique."