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Hi, My name is Jeremy Yazzie.

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I work for the NRP with the USGS.

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I am a lead IT specialist for the whole OU
and NRP.

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The new innovative stuff that I bring to it
is security, new ways of - new technologies

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of virtualware, virtual machines, virtual
storage, cloud services and ways that people

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can utilize their operating systems, their
daily tasks a lot easier.

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This work matters not just to me, but to everybody
that utilizes water and I think it's very

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important part of society because we use it
every day, not really knowing we use water

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for everything we do and this group really
provides that type of service and I'm very

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intrigued with how they make sure that everything
is protected in what we do because we take

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it for granted.

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So I feel I'm a big part of the picture for
helping them get that data out.

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Well, coming from a different sector of the
government, the challenges were pretty big.

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Backups, archiving, changing the way things
are on the network, securing stuff from teaching

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people how...from outside and inside the network
is different from remoting in and different

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things like that.

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So, it's teaching them new technologies and
how it's supposed to be utilized and how to

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secure our network.

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It was a big challenge and so pretty much,
I had to start from scratch, and I like that.

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I like innovation and it's always exciting
to come in each day and say: "Okay, how can

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I improve this?

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How can I make this better?"

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And then you talk to people and you see what
they've been doing and sometimes, you might

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bring something to their table, or they'll
bring something to your table, but it's always

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good.

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It's always good to feel that way.

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And it's always nice to feel that, you know,
there's somebody smarter than you out there

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sometimes, and you can always find them and
reach out to them and hopefully somebody thinks

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of that same way of you sometimes.

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So, that's always a good feeling too.

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But, all in all, sharing the knowledge I've
learned in the last 18 years makes me feel

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good that I can pass that on.