One of the several responsibilities of a sales engineer is traveling to meet with customers and/or prospects. I can still remember my first business trip to visit M&T Bank in buffalo. M&T confirmed the meeting two days before. The sales rep immediately called me and just said, ‘book your flight and hotel asap’ and I’ll meet you there. Being that this was my first business trip, I didn’t want to break any policy so I booked the flights and hotel that stayed within policy. While in Buffalo, there was a snowstorm that canceled my flight which forced me to find a hotel and re-book my flight for the next day. Overall, my first business trip didn’t go smoothly but I learned a lot of valuable lessons. Since that trip,

Pluralsight is the first company where I have been working in a remote environment and I don’t mean working out of a WeWork! I have been working from home for the last 2.5 years and although I have come to love working from home, it wasn’t like that in the beginning. When I graduated from college, I was introduced into the workforce with traditional practices (e.g. office building, assign desk and 8:30 am start time). Since then, I have seen companies embrace remote working in various ways through open desk policy that promotes working from home once a week, to starting a new WeWork office as a satellite office to headquarters