veterans studying on deployment – and all of them entrust the college with sensitive personal and academic data.
“ The trust that the institution and the students have in our ability to deliver is substantial,” Greg says.
He is candid about the personal quality that has helped him maintain that trust over a long career.“ I’ m extraordinarily stubborn,” he admits.“ In the technology world, things do not always go perfectly smoothly, and the best creative plans are often a wasted effort. Simply being stubborn – not quitting, not giving in, seeing what the end result is and moving towards it – that has been quite a utility in the technology environment.”
That stubbornness is tempered by a lesson he absorbed from a mentor early in his career, a technologist with 50 years of experience across large public companies and the US Government. The advice has stayed with him ever since.
“ What he would tell me is: don’ t lose sight of the end user. Just because you can do something does not mean you should do something,” he recalls.
“ We want the technology to improve, foster, and facilitate a more appropriate environment for our users. Once it becomes an impediment or too disruptive, it’ s simply a nuisance.” troy. edu 9