ASCII Anything

This week we're joined by ASCII Anything's Podcast Mom, Malinda Lowder, to talk about how the podcast came to be, where we've been, and where we plan to go in the future. 

Surprise guests! Celebrities!! Exciting prize giveaways!!!

NONE of these things feature in this week's exciting 100th episode of ASCII Anything!

See our first VIDEO podcast at:
https://youtu.be/wwdz_72s3Ss?si=8uCX_JODI7mFBmXO

This week we're joined by Moser's own John Caviness to talk about security awareness. In the words of Nirvana, "Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you."

John's a consultant in Moser Managed Services. He has a master’s degree in Information and Communications Sciences from Ball State University and has been working in the Managed Services sector since 2018. He holds certifications in Windows Server Administration and ITIL IT Service Management.

This week's episode features two of our own, Megan Saylor and Doug Beers from Moser's Learning Services department. They're talking to us about Learning Management Systems. 

Megan is a Senior Consultant and Engagement Manager at Moser Consulting and has been with the company for 10 years. Her main focus has been in Middleware, as an LMS Systems Owner. She has been an EM for over 3 years and she is also currently an administrator of Moser’s own LMS, called HRLearn, for both internal use and future client engagements! She is certified in BBST Foundations of Software Testing, ICAgile: Foundations of DevOps, Scaled Agile: SAFe Agilist, Learn Server Administration (Blackboard) and Presenting Powerful Presentations.

Doug is a Senior Consultant for the Learning Services division at Moser Consulting and has been with the company for 9+ years. He is looking forward to expanding the Learning Services impact at Moser and to our clients through implementing learning management systems and content management. He is certified in Scaled Agile: Certified SAFe Agilist,  BBST Foundations of Software Testing, and ICAgile: ICP Foundations of DevOps.

This week we're joined by Moser's own Derrick Spires, who will be discussing with us the benefits of Project Management. 

Derrick Spires has over 10 years’ experience in his project management career. He has served clients in the public and private sectors to manage projects in a range of industries, including training and development, knowledge management, construction, and healthcare information technology and infrastructure. The latter of which is where he has spent most of his project management service. Having had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, from small-scale implementations to large-scale enterprise-wide initiatives, he has found that significant project issues are always preceded by subtle symptoms and indicators. 

Chadd Wheat is joining us again, but this time he's not talking Tales of IT Terror. He's here to talk about character in leadership and how a leader's character plays an important role in their leadership style, affecting the performance of their entire team, and often making the difference between success and failure.

Our guest this week is Kelsey Aaron.  She's the Executive of the Indiana Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  

She joined The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in March 2016 as a volunteer. Now as the AFSP Executive Director for Indiana, she supports AFSP’s mission of saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide by working with the AFSP's staff members and amazing volunteers to raise awareness. Kelsey does all of this to honor her dad, who she lost by suicide in November 2001.

Our guest this week is Jamie McCabe, founder of Special Needs Living Magazine, the first Special Needs magazine in Indiana. 

Jamie grew up in Waterford, Michigan, and graduated from Waterford Mott High School. She moved to Indianapolis in 2007 to work with Cutco Cutlery where she ran a district office in Kalamazoo Michigan as a District Manager. She has 3 kids - Jordan 11, Jaylin 6, and Jade 4. Her son started having seizures at 18 months old and was diagnosed with Autism at almost 5. He has always been nonverbal but over the last year he has made some incredible progress. 

Jamie started working as a franchise owner with the N2 Company in 2013. She has run multiple community magazines over the last decade. From her pain to purpose she started the first Special Needs Living Magazine in Indiana in 2020. They expanded to Ohio in 2022 and she is proud to bring one to her home state of Michigan to celebrate, support, connect, and impact the special needs community.

This week, we're joined by Jonah Nichols, one of Moser Consulting's summer interns. Jonah is working within our Data and Analytics division as a data engineering intern. He is a computer engineering student at Purdue University, entering his senior year. He is interested in machine learning and cyber security. His non-technical interests include reading, playing basketball, practicing piano, and learning Spanish. Jonah's internship is focused on designing an interface for Moser's Honeycomb platform. 

This week we're joined by coach and mentor, Amy Snow. What is coaching? What is mentoring? What are the differences between the two? That's what we'll be discussing!

Amy is a former Division I soccer player and lifelong participant in sports who loves what being an athlete has done for her in every aspect of her life. She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s in Statistics and Biometry and a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.). She captained the varsity soccer squad her junior and senior years, was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year her freshman year and earned multiple All-Ivy honors and Athletic Academic All-American status during her tenure there. She was also inducted into the New York State Girls Soccer Hall of Fame in 2018.  

And while she imagined the transition from sports would be hard, she didn’t know how hard…until she got there. That is why she is also passionate about helping college and professional athletes manage their transitions from sports to their new careers. Helping them to create a game plan, challenging them to push themselves in new ways, and ultimately getting them to their goals faster than they could on their own is incredibly rewarding and energizing! 

ASCII's season six is starting off with a bang! We've got a great guest to kick off the new season. Joining us is Jennifer Demar, who runs Guatemala Service Projects, an organization that works with local community leaders in Guatemala, listening to their concerns and needs and then springing into action; developing ways to plan, fund, and deliver projects that meet those needs. They have done magnificent work in Guatemala and are continuing to do so!