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Hi, I'm Don Capelli, and I am the director of O.T. cert at Dragos.

When I was a kid, I was a kid I wanted to be a rock star. As a little girl playing with her Barbie dolls, my Barbie doll was always a rock star.

But then as I got older, I got a little more realistic as to my realistic

career aspirations.

I always loved math.

And so in school I was always good at math it was my favorite subject

went to college and finally I realized I should do something with math if I'm going to pick a career.

But my guidance counselor at the University of Pittsburgh said,

if you're going to be a math major,

you have to make yourself take one computer class.

And I said, I do not like those computers.

They scare me.

And he said, you have got to take one class. So I took one

class and I loved it. So for the rest of my whole junior and senior year I took two to three computer classes each

semester so that I had a joint major in math and computer science.

I went to Westinghouse and I got a job as a software engineer programming nuclear

power planes and nuclear power was booming back then.

After Westinghouse, I went to Carnegie Mellon University

and I just did various kinds of software engineering projects.

What really changed the course of my life was when we did a prototype of a portal for collaboration and emergency response in case of a bioterrorism

attack.

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