Krzysztof's Klues
In the Cloud or On Prem?
Found in CrushingIT
VMC IT Staff
AI
100
Often representing an obvious problem, this mammal sits on KS's desk.

What is an elephant?

100

Masergy

What is "in the cloud"?

100

This, our most ambitious digital transformation project yet, focused on transforming and modernizing key areas of our business, including Human Capital Management, Finance, Source to Pay and Operations & Plant Maintenance. 

What is VANTAGE?

100

Has two daughters, Makayla and Meagan, and a grandson named Carter.

Who are Michael and Elise Johnson?

100

This British mathematician, often called the "father of computer science," proposed the "Turing Test" to evaluate machine intelligence.

Who is Alan Turing?

200

KS served this many years in what branch of the US Military?

What is 6 years in the Marine Corp?

200

Disaster Recovery

What is "on prem"?  (but moving to the cloud this year)

200

IT’s Webworks team partnered with Business Sponsor, Vulcan Communications Director, Jack Bonnikson, to launch the newly expanded and redesigned this, our new internal employee intranet.

What is the Vulcan Hub?

200

According to LinkedIn profile, "I truly enjoy collaborating across organizations to build effective teams and serve as a connector and integrator of people and technology capabilities."

Who is Deb Carter?

200

This type of learning involves training a model on labeled data, enabling it to make predictions or classifications.

What is supervised learning?

300

While dating Lorie, KS referred to her homemade pasta as this.

What are noodles?

300

APEX

What is "on prem"?

300

This launched in 2022 as part of our digital transformational journey to integrate a new, best-in-class technology suite to accelerate our Vulcan Way of Selling.

What is VulcanX?

300

Before joining Vulcan's team, worked as Director of Software Engineering for Enterprise Data Systems at Salesforce.

Who is Raj Sivakumar?

300

In the film "2001: A Space Odyssey," this AI, known for its calm voice and sinister intentions, controlled the spaceship Discovery One.

Who is HAL 9000?

400

LEAN IX

What is "in the cloud"?

400

Vulcan chose this product for email encryption to protect sensitive data.

What is Virtru?

400

Was in NYC on 9/11.

Who is John Barbosa?

400

This Google AI, named after a constellation, is designed to be multimodal, handling text, code, images, and more.

What is Gemini?

500

ProcessIT

What is "On Prem"?  (But totally out of support!)

500

Introduced in June 2024, VIBE - which stands for this - was introduced as a groundbreaking early career program designed for aspiring tech professionals.

What is Vulcan IT Bootcamp Experience?

500

aka Peaches.

Who is Gary Farmer?

500

This type of AI, capable of generating realistic text, images, and other media, has seen rapid advancements with models like GPT-3 and DALL-E.

What is generative AI?