One of the most popular questions that I get is, How many years are you in Amdocs? And the answer is almost twenty three. I'll be with Amdocs April will be five years. And people ask me, so many years, high-tech people move from one place to another. I am working as a software test manager here in Amdocs. I'm leading a team of thirty five people. In Amdocs, I feel like I've been in several companies, not just several companies, not just one. I've been here for eighteen years. Been to consulting, delivery, marketing, sales. I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, in a community that was always about helping each other, about justice, about coming together and doing things. So I just kinda, can we get a few of those laptops and maybe give them out to people? So when typhoon audit hit, around twenty five million plus customers were affected. They were unable to communicate with their families to community, and it impacted the rescue operations. We had one young lady in Atlanta that was able to finish her certifications, apply for a job at Google, and got the job. And it all started with a laptop from Amdocs. We built a disaster recovery site so that no operations are affected. And on top of it, our customer, which is Globe, has no impact on their services and their reputation. Through the course of my career, I had a chance to navigate in between different domains and different roles and giving the customers a solution through the generative AI technology. The feeling of being significant and important gives you some kind of rush. Amdoc's technology is being touched by three billion people on a daily basis. So that feeling is a feeling of empowerment. Two years ago was when my mother passed. So that was the big life change, you know, both parents die. And then now I'm the legal guardian for my little brother. And Jason is Down syndrome and hearing impaired. He requires full time care. One day, know, out of the blue, my kid at the age of ten lost all her hair. I don't know how to express this feeling, it's kind of like shocking because you don't know what is happening. The first time I heard my baby's heartbeat, the doctor and the technician said that my wife has to be on total bed rest for six to seven months. And I couldn't go to office. I had to be with her. And so my worry was how is work going to handle this? Because we were just coming back to work after COVID. And I just remember the feeling I had when I came to work, you know, the emotional hug I got from my managers. I have six amazing teammates. They said just one thing, don't worry. Don't worry about work. We have it all sorted out. The worry immediately melted away is the best way I can put it because they gave me all the options possible to stop coming to work, to come as much as I want. You take care of your family. You do what you need to do. And it's not only me. I know it's not today. I know a lot of friends here at work that Amdocs had their back. So I think it is the openness that we have in Amdocs. It's not in the books. It is there to be witnessed and people do feel it. But it's also around my personal feeling that I'm being trusted and I'm being also accountable to make the right impact of my role and the right impact of what I deliver. I'm able to take care of my work, but I'm also able to take care of my family. And the flexibility that Amdocs has provided me has helped me to thrive. Nineteen years later and still rejuvenating my career with an internal nonprofit, it has been amazing. It blows my mind still to this day. Amazing.
