Welcome back to today's episode of dissecting popular IT nerds.

I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Cindy Novak, the director of R&D

and technical operations business partner at Abidity Biosciences.

Welcome to the show, Cindy.

Thank you very much, Douglas, for having me. That is a mouthful.

It's a great title, but I'm struggling to get it out because there's a lot,

there's a lot packed in there, isn't there?

There is, and it has grown significantly since the beginning of the year.

So I started out supporting research and I just keep tacking on more and more and helping the rest of the business.

So pretty soon, like, you'll have a business card that'll just, like, it'll go front and back with your title, right?

It'll be like, you know, this, we have digital business cards.

You know, comma this, comma that, comma, you know, just be batting to the list, right?

Well, I hope not because this is already quite a bit to handle, and I'm a team of two right now.

Oh, yes.

Yeah, so it's that challenge.

So we asked this before we got on the interview part of the podcast, but your title, you have business partner in your title.

You're working for a company ofinity biosciences, you have business partner in your title, you're working for a company

ofinity biosciences. And sometimes business partners are not necessarily exclusively in the IT

realm, and they don't always come from the IT realm. But you consider yourself and you are a part

of IT. Your background is in IT, and that's how you came up in the world. So can you tell us a little

bit about that? Sure. So my background originally is actually quality.

So I started my career 30 years ago as a quality engineer.

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