Hey, everybody. Welcome to another you've been heard. Today, we're operating at scale 20 years

in and just getting started with Rob Spelman. Rob, introduce yourself and welcome to the show.

Hey, thank you, Mike. I'm Rob Spellman. I'm the chief information officer with QTC health

services, a whole young subsidiary of Lidos. All right. So 20 years in, tell me a little bit more

about that. How'd you get to where you are? And what have you done to have been heard to become the chief information officer?

Yeah.

It's been a journey.

I just celebrated 20 years with LIDOs.

Before that, I did a five-year stent with what started off as American management systems

and then spun off. The piece I was

with spun off and was purchased by CACI. So I've kind of been in this systems integrator defense

contractor role for my whole career. When I started off, I was a database administrator. I started on

Oracle and then transitioned over to Microsoft SQL Server.

And I really loved it. It was one of those things as you go through and you're working your

undergraduate degree. Computer science was my major, but it's such a broad field. I really

struggled for the first couple years and I can write code. I don't really

love writing code. But when I got into a database class, I think it was my junior year. It was like

a light went off and I was like, I love databases and I love database architecture and data

structures, all this cool stuff that you can do with it.

And so it really started off as a DBA and then made over 25 years, took on different projects, different roles.

And about almost four years ago now, I moved into the CIO role that I'm in now.

So this is rarely people ever get to say that they're working their dream job.

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