WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.501 My name is David Hope. 2 00:00:01.501 --> 00:00:04.624 I work for the Department of Defense, DFAS, 3 00:00:04.624 --> 00:00:08.169 which is Defense Finance and Accounting Services. 4 00:00:08.169 --> 00:00:10.223 We pay the Military and the civilians of the Government, 5 00:00:10.223 --> 00:00:11.291 in the military. 6 00:00:11.291 --> 00:00:13.412 I'm a Financial Specialist. 7 00:00:13.412 --> 00:00:17.941 line:15% I kinda help design the civilian payroll software. 8 00:00:17.941 --> 00:00:20.730 line:15% Basically, a requirement will come in, 9 00:00:20.730 --> 00:00:23.996 line:15% build a report, make this screen look pretty, 10 00:00:23.996 --> 00:00:26.726 line:15% make it do this, not this. 11 00:00:26.726 --> 00:00:28.691 line:15% I'll design that, and give it to a programmer, 12 00:00:28.691 --> 00:00:31.605 line:15% to actually put the code in the system. 13 00:00:31.605 --> 00:00:33.733 line:15% So, that software will go out, and then we, 14 00:00:33.733 --> 00:00:36.554 line:15% we pay 2.2 million civilians out of our office. 15 00:00:36.554 --> 00:00:38.639 We pay the President, out of our office. 16 00:00:38.639 --> 00:00:40.055 A little bit of everything I've done there. 17 00:00:40.055 --> 00:00:42.911 I've done Payroll there, I've done Accounting there, 18 00:00:42.911 --> 00:00:43.911 Finance, HR. 19 00:00:45.655 --> 00:00:48.062 It's a place where you can go in different angles, 20 00:00:48.062 --> 00:00:49.243 different realms. 21 00:00:49.243 --> 00:00:52.022 And your degree can take you anywhere, at DFAS. 22 00:00:52.022 --> 00:00:53.512 Basically, I'm doing a lot of writing. 23 00:00:53.512 --> 00:00:55.262 line:15% It's a lot of writing, what I do. 24 00:00:55.262 --> 00:00:56.899 line:15% Microsoft Word. 25 00:00:56.899 --> 00:01:01.414 line:15% And I'll write five to a hundred pages, of analysis. 26 00:01:01.414 --> 00:01:04.123 line:15% You know, this system has a problem over here. 27 00:01:04.123 --> 00:01:06.703 It needs to be better, I'll do some research. 28 00:01:06.703 --> 00:01:09.737 You know, I could do 20 years of, why is it doing this, 29 00:01:09.737 --> 00:01:12.528 or what's it need to do? 30 00:01:12.528 --> 00:01:14.699 And come up with a plan, on my own. 31 00:01:14.699 --> 00:01:16.993 It needs to do this, this is why it's doing this, 32 00:01:16.993 --> 00:01:18.513 don't do this anymore. 33 00:01:18.513 --> 00:01:20.338 And talk to all the customers. 34 00:01:20.338 --> 00:01:21.924 Do you want it to do this, 35 00:01:21.924 --> 00:01:23.576 line:15% or what do you need it to do? 36 00:01:23.576 --> 00:01:25.567 line:15% And kind see what they want, instead of 37 00:01:25.567 --> 00:01:27.408 line:15% here's the problem, I'm just gonna go with it. 38 00:01:27.408 --> 00:01:29.550 line:15% I want their input, as much as possible. 39 00:01:29.550 --> 00:01:33.065 line:15% So everyday, I'm talking to customers, 40 00:01:33.065 --> 00:01:35.504 finding out what they want, and writing. 41 00:01:35.504 --> 00:01:37.911 You know, just writing a lot of documents. 42 00:01:37.911 --> 00:01:39.653 So we have a new, 43 00:01:39.653 --> 00:01:41.252 new thing called Phased Retirement, 44 00:01:41.252 --> 00:01:44.753 which I helped design, where you work part-time. 45 00:01:44.753 --> 00:01:46.962 You might work two hours a day, four, five, 46 00:01:46.962 --> 00:01:48.178 whatever you need. 47 00:01:48.178 --> 00:01:51.473 And you're basically a mentor, for the younger generation 48 00:01:51.473 --> 00:01:54.677 line:15% coming in, that don't have all that knowledge, that we want. 49 00:01:54.677 --> 00:01:56.886 line:15% So basically, you're only role would be a mentor. 50 00:01:56.886 --> 00:01:59.386 line:15% So I helped design that whole, 51 00:02:00.754 --> 00:02:02.499 the whole concept. 52 00:02:02.499 --> 00:02:04.925 A lot of time, it took over a year development, 53 00:02:04.925 --> 00:02:08.758 to put that into play, and now it's 100%.