When Mercury Interactive created Topaz, which would become the standard for Enterprise Monitoring, I was the 1st person in the world to use it. I was a Sr. Systems Engineer, installed Topaz in many Fortune 500 companies and was technically U.S. support for the first 6 months in production.
Mercury (and Topaz) was bought by HP and today I have 2 decades experience using the Monitoring products from Micro Focus who bought it from HP.
It was Topaz, BPM, VuGen, LoadRunner, Quality Center, QTP/UFT, BAC, Freshwater/SiteScope, OMi, NNMi, APM that made me who I am today with technology. When Topaz was introduced, I was the only person in the company who wanted to learn it and demo for customers – that’s what I mean by ‘things happen at the right time for me.’
Because of Topaz, I:
- learned how to create a network and rack servers, switches & routers.
- became a webmaster because I wanted to learn why some sites worked fine and others failed or ran slowly.
- became an SEO master when I read an article about the value of having a website found on Google & Yahoo.
- became knowledgeable in all facets of corporate technology because I talked with every department in 100s of companies to learn why/how systems worked.
- became a consultant to many of the companies I had demoed, installed and trained to use Enterprise Monitoring.
- became an IT Director who knows how to manage and knows technology too.