rquick@localhost:~$ whoami
I am Ralph Quick. I care about what I do and seeing it’s done right the first time.
“My life has always been a Da Vincian-like balance’ of science and art which is the bedrock of my creative intelligence.”
My Short Story
I always had a passion for technology since I was an adolescent with my first home computer and learning to program basic. Years later, I was employed by Motorola in Fort Lauderdale and then transfered to their newer Atlanta facility during my twenties. I learned Six Sigma quality principles and all of the wonders of robotic assembly processes. Unfortunately, the infamous ‘Dot-com bubble’ burst, and advancing my career ended as opportunities were vanishing due to industry layoffs
So, I did what any person of character and confidence would do. I reinvented myself and discovered new opportunities. I took the quality tech skills I learned from manufacturing processes and applied these principles into the mortgage industry. It was all fundamentally relative. The end result is to always close a quality product by beginning with a quality origination point.
For 20 years I was quite successful with mortgage lending, servicing, and secondary market securities, but I never lost that thrill of working with technology. During those years I built multiple PC desktops for power-users, gaming, graphics, and video editing. I had adventures learning software and interfaces to produce videos, music, vector graphics, and building websites. I further advanced with WordPress in 2007 and learned about back-end hosting with services of some of the top brands like AWS, Google, 1&1, SiteGround, GoDaddy, and WP Engine.
As nice as the ride has been with the mortgage industry, I wanted back into technology but with cloud computing. It is too revolutionary to pass up this kind of adventure, and its long-tail value is excitingly exponential! I wanted in, so I signed up with Yellow Tail Tech in early 2022 and never looked backed as I need to be a Cloud Engineer. It is everything I wanted to do!
Loyal. Compassionate. Intuitive. Adventurous. Creative.
Ready to Rock & Roll.
Attitude
I do believe an individual’s attitude determines their altitude.
I am also an American rules football coach, and my specialty was coaching the offensive line. There are various traits a coach looks for in a young player becoming an offensive lineman. The number one characteristic I need to see from a player is they had to have “a case of the wants.”
Nobody is born to be an offensive lineman. What they do is very much an unglorified, critical position. Nobody sees them unless they make a mistake like getting a quarterback sacked. Their primary role is to block for whoever has the football. It is relatively a form of martial arts in this sport. Since blocking is not a natural skill, a player has to ‘truly want to do it.’
If a player has this attitude, they have an opportunity for altitude in becoming a successful offensive lineman… and even becoming whomever they want to be.
In the cloud services industry, my attitude supports my wants in becoming a successful professional in this industry. I will make this happen and contribute in making any team better. This is my attitude for altitude.