Lead Technical Architect, AT&T

>> My name is Joe Cool I work for AT&T. I've been there over twenty five years now. I'm part of their cloud group now so we're responsible for cloud design, our cloud service definition. My focus in now on network and network design as it accesses cloud platform services. A lot of it is meetings. Probably an average day is five to six hours of meetings. Sometimes we end up multi-tasking, so we end up taking care of other business while we're doing a meeting. And when I say meetings most of them are conference calls. We've got a very geographically distributed work force and we don't have the folks that you work with in the same location most of the time. So we're on conference calls most of it. The rest of it is e-mails, creating e-mails, responding to e-mails and then occasionally when you get time you actually get to think and formulate I'll say formulate solutions and most of the time that's articulated in like Microsoft Office, mostly Power Point stuff, occasionally you'll be cooperate on a paper, or cooperate on some design documents but most of it is more of a visually oriented thing and then after you're writing Word so a Power Point is often are deliverable. So cloud services is the idea of taking resources and virtualizing them so that when you're not using a part of it somebody else is able to use a part of it. The project itself is we've got a couple of cloud platforms now some of which we use internally for our own corporate use, some of which are being made available for us to sell as cloud services. They kind of grew up in different parts of the company and running them separately is not very efficient so we have a project and one of the leads on that project about consolidating our cloud infrastructure. So we're able to take advantage of the efficiencies of you do one set of designs, one set of certifications, one set of network access, technologies and then you're able to offer the services externally and offer them and use them internally too.