John Got Schooled
Wahoo-Wah is the cheer of this university, John's undergraduate alma mater
What is the University of Virginia?
Home to over 18,000 islands in the South Pacific, this country is where John first learned underwater photography
What is Indonesia?
Claiming "The Network is the Computer", this company was the first to hire John as an SE in 1994
What is Sun Microsystems?
This job is how John made money to support himself in graduate school
What is teacher?
This is the stretch of California coastline John rode in his cinnamon-red Corvette during his layoff sabbatical in 2013
What is Big Sur?
"It's better" in this Caribbean island chain, where John did his first shark dive in 1998
What are the Bahamas?
John's was the first-ever certification in this popular SE program, known for helping SEs navigate Salesforce specialties
What are Blackbelts?
This is the profession John originally went to college to study for
What is doctor?
According to a widely-read book on Corvettes, all Corvettes are this color
What is red?
Known for its abundant soft corals, this South Pacific country is the destination of John's first diving trip in retirement
What is Fiji?
Now leading the GPS Mulesoft and Tableau teams, this SE manager hired John into Salesforce in 2015
Who is Lisa DeMille?
This is the grade John got in his first computer science class
What is D- ?
VROOOMM
What are the letters of John's license plate?
Fate "naturally selected" this group of equatorial Pacific islands for John's first whale shark encounter
What are the Galápagos Islands?
After 8 years of trying, we finally landed our first win in this former account of John's in Q3
What is IRS?
A Parallel Implementation of a Simultaneous Iteration Algorithm for the Calculation of Nested Invariant Subspaces of Large Non-Hermitian Matrices
What is the title of John's Master's thesis?
This is the model of Corvette John is buying himself for his retirement present
What is a C8 Stingray?
John's new retirement hobby, this kind of aquarium emphasizes natural hardscape and live plants over lots of fish
What is an aquascape?
Tired of feeling "blue", John left this company right before joining Salesforce
What is IBM?