Introducing Anthony Paul

Anthony is a railroad futurist at GE transportation. So unless you think you’re on the wrong podcast, we are talking to a WordPress person. Anthony has a lot of experience with WordPress. He’s also a hot sauce enthusiast.

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Website | http://adp.rocks/

Twitter | @anthonydpaul

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Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Liam Dempsey.

Tara: I’m Tara Claeys. Today we have with us, Anthony Paul. I’m super excited to have Anthony here. Anthony is a railroad futurist at GE transportation. So unless you think you’re on the wrong podcast, we are talking to a WordPress person. Anthony has a lot of experience with WordPress. He’s also a hot sauce enthusiast. Welcome, Anthony!

Liam: Anthony? Greetings. Thanks for joining us today. I’m going to let Tara takeover in just a second, but I have to know…Siracha or not Siracha?

Anthony: I love Siracha, but it’s not hot enough.

Liam: Awesome!

Tara: What’s your favorite hot sauce?

Anthony: Ooh…I don’t know. I make my own hot sauce. I grow my own peppers, and I’ve had all of the hottest peppers around the world. The most unique sauce I guess is the sauce that I discovered at a burrito joint called Gator Stop. It has a hot sauce that has molasses and honey mustard, and they add things to it. It’s kind of like the A1 steak sauce of hot sauces. You can put it in anything. It’s just tastes right.

Liam: Ummm.

Tara: Do you like to get your eyes watering? Is it that kind of hot or do you have a line that you don’t cross?

Anthony: I do. I have tear gassed the house hot sauce. (all laugh)

Tara: You have to watch out. Just the vapors can cause you to cough and choke (from what my husband has made).

Anthony: Yeah.

Tara: So Anthony? Tell us a little more about what you do.

Anthony: I’m part of an innovation team at GE. We do software for the railroad industry. I’m a behavioral scientist, so I take everything that I learned through my years of agency work in figuring out what are the questions our clients want to ask but aren’t actually asking and all that experience of getting information out of people. I now go out into the field for the railroad industry, and I shadow and talk to railroad engineers. I figure out what are the problems that they are trying to solve day to day. I take that back to my team, and we come up with concepts for software to help them with their business problems.

Tara: So it’s not specifically something like app and website related but not necessarily WordPress related?

Anthony: Yeah. It’s web applications. As of six months ago, I’m not using WordPress professionally anymore other than the occasional freelance gig. But I’ve been using WordPress since Miles Davis 1.0. So 10 years prior to my current position, I was in the typical design agency world where I was u...