All right, I'm just going to get started.

Hey, everybody.

My name is Scott Smaster.

I'm the CEO slash CTO of CIO Mastermind.

I'll give you a little bit of a,

well, you probably heard a little bit of my spiel before,

but I'm here with Tim Jackson.

Your whole full name on LinkedIn is Timothy Laudel Jackson.

I like the whole name, man.

Tell me about yourself, Tim.

So I'm originally from Chicago.

I grew up.

I'm a native.

I've been here, though, on the Gulf Coast for almost 22 years now.

A brief stop in New Orleans for about four years. That's where I met my wife and we started our family in New Orleans. And I moved the family here to Houston to become a

GIS consultant, full-time consultant. A little bit about my middle name. That's my dad's name. So very proud to carry his name as well as my son,

as well as my nephew and my great uncle. So I'm the same same thing. I carry my father's name

as my middle name. One of my sons has it as well as his middle name.

And well, so does a number of my cousins and nephews and stuff. So cool. Yeah.

So a little bit more about myself. I started out as a cobal programmer coming out of college,

attended SIU University.

I did some grad school in last five years,

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