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Billy Wilson: Translating language skills to technical skills. [HPC] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, Daily News, News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this special encore episode, where we are joined by a High Performance Computing Systems Administrator at Brigham Young University. Billy Wilson tells his cybersecurity career story translating language skills to technical skills. According to Billy's employer, moving to a technical position at his alma mater occurred because Billy showed this potential and a thirst for learning. He is currently pursuing his master's degree from SANS Technology Institute for Information Security Engineering while working to secure BYU's data for their computationally-intensive research. Billy notes that not everyone has one overarching passion which gives him variety in his work. And, we thank Billy for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.5

My name is Billy Wilson.

1:07.0

I'm a high-performance computing systems administrator at Brigham Young University. Some of my earliest notions were actually writing.

1:14.6

I was really interested in being a writer.

1:17.6

And that still persists to this day that when I have opportunities in time, I like to write.

1:23.6

It kind of resonates with me.

1:26.6

When I was 19 years old, I went on an ecclesiastical mission from my church out to South Korea

1:32.3

and spent a couple years in that country, you know, learning a new language.

1:36.3

And then, after that, it came to BYU as a student, and I studied linguistics in Korean continuing that interest.

1:49.0

Learning languages, being able to communicate, that's a huge part of tech because those language skills translate to technical skills.

1:59.0

When you're sitting at a command prompt or writing

2:01.7

scripts so on and so forth we're trying to interpret data so i graduated and it was in the middle

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