All right. Hey, everybody. Another episode of dissecting popular IT nerds. And today we've got

John Lay. So John, if you'd like to introduce yourself, please tell Tell us a little about who John is and what he does.

Happy too.

So, yes, as you've said, I'm John Lay.

I like to consider myself a long-term technology leader with extensive background and software development and building technology teams.

I'm currently the VP of IT for a specialty retailer and RV dealership group.

My focus is on applications and those teams that are delivering and supporting applications for the organization.

All right.

So tell us a little more about your beginnings, your humble beginnings in IT, you know.

What was the thing that helped spark that interest for you?

They got you interested in these damn machines.

So I'll go back to take a trip here in the way back machine.

I did not originally think I would have anything to do with technology as I left high school.

Back then, technology was something locked away in a glass room.

And phones were mounted to walls.

But things have changed and so have I.

I'm still a small town, Tennessee farm boy at heart, but blessed with the ability to work with technology and be successful at building technology teams.

And a lot of that has to do with communication and being able to understand technology and related to those

non-technical folks, but also to tell stories and help the technical folks who need to actually

do something with technology, understand what the business needs and how to solve their

problems.

I have had a long, varied history, but probably pretty much all of my jobs had something to do with software or applications, either supporting them, running them, or building them.

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