These days, though, he calls Philadelphia home because why not trade the steppe for cheesesteaks and row homes?
The first thing you should know about Val? His accent does not mean he’s a terrifying Russian villain from an action movie. Also, he has to clarify this way more often than you’d think.
Val spent years in the telecommunications tower-climbing world, the job where you climb metal skyscrapers in the sky for fun and large sums of money. But the career ladder there didn’t go nearly as high as the towers, so he went looking for something with real upward mobility. When Gridware called, he swapped tower climbing for pole climbing and jumped into a role where his field experience really matters.
Now he’s a Field Operations Supervisor, which is basically the job title for “person who makes sure chaos stays organized.”
If Val isn’t out in the field with boots literally and metaphorically on the ground, he’s starting his day with early calls from Field Specialists, answering questions, updates, solving problems, and answering more questions. Then it’s meetings, logistics, data review, and untangling whatever operational knot showed up that day.
He wraps up with evening field stand-ups and, because he apparently doesn’t sleep, late-night data uploads so the monitoring team has everything they need. If GridScopes had a bedtime story, Val would be the one reading it.
You’d think it’d be the big-picture strategy or the supervisory authority, but nope his happy place is processing surveying data and pushing it to the monitoring team. Some people meditate; Val uploads field data at 11 p.m. Same thing, different vibe.
Val wants to:
Basically, he wants to build systems that matter—with people who matter.
Val’s interests are divided geographically:
Did we mention that his accent does not mean he’s a scary Russian from the movies? Because he’d like everyone to know that. Again.
