Hi, nerds. It's Michael Moore, and I'm here with Travis Pierce, Director of Information Technology, Atillamook County Creamery Association.

Welcome to dissecting popular IT nerds. Hey, Travis, how's it going? Great. How are you doing, Michael?

I'm doing really good. As the audience is aware, we do a quick icebreaker segment called

Random Access Memories. The idea here is I ask a question. You respond back with the answer

that comes to your head first. So your first question is back in the

day, what was your favorite computer-based music player application? I don't know if I'm going far enough

back, but I loved Napster. I was sad to see it go.

That's necessarily a player.

I tried to avoid like the Apple products, I think, as long as I could and then switch to them.

So I had all kinds of different like older MP3 players, some of them made by sports

companies and some of them just random.

It's amazing now that we just kind of move past that and, you know, onto the other apps.

What do you wish everyone understood about IT?

Oh, that's a great one.

I think probably the thing that comes to mind first is that there's a lot of really good

business people in IT that drive a lot of benefit for companies, whether it's through automation

or just, you know, clear data to make decisions.

But it's a lot of us have like a really good base of

business knowledge to apply the technology. I'd say, I mean, it's a great question. That's a

great piece. I think we'll explore that a little bit later about the business knowledge. But yeah,

you're 100% accurate on that. And if you had the opportunity to name a search engine, what would you name it?

Help.

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