Adeptia Employee Profile Series: David Paras

Friday, December 4, 2015

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If you’ve followed our blog at all over the past year, then you know that Adeptia likes getting personal. And that makes sense, considering that our software is nothing if not approachable. It’s our strong belief at Adeptia that tech companies should speak to more than just the technically elite, and we want to you to know how much we really mean that.

We are all people who love working together for something we believe in, and we want to share that part of ourselves with you… and more. So for the next in our series where we get personal with each other about who we are, here are some questions and answers from a conversation with Adeptia employee David Paras:

1. What do you do at Adeptia?

Title: Technical Support EngineerOther Stuff: IT Consultant, License Manager, Forum Manager, Friday Skeleton Crew Member

2. How long have you been working for Adeptia?

LinkedIn says 3 years 10 months

3. Given where Adeptia’s main office is, what’s your favorite restaurant in Chi-town?

Parson’s Chicken and Fish—Logan Square

4. Cubs or White-Sox?

Bulls

5. How does Adeptia compare to other places you’ve worked in the past? Culture? People? Overall Experience?

Adeptia’s culture provides the feeling that everyone can contribute to our success and each voice matters. Working at larger companies in the past, I didn’t always have that feeling.

6. Top Three All-Time Favorite Movies:

  1. 1.Armageddon
  2. 2.Despicable Me
  3. 3.Police Story 4: First Strike

7. What is a feature of an Adeptia product that you’re most excited about/proud of?

The process modeler and simulation feature are pretty cool, yet underutilized. People should give it a try.

8. Favorite place you’ve ever visited:

Paras inn: Tambisaan Beach, Malay, Aklan, Manoc-manoc, 5608 Boracay, Philippines (Book now!)

9. The thing you’re looking forward to the most right now:

Lunch

10. What do you love about working for Adeptia?

Fun size candy bars. Also, see the reply from question 5.

For more in our fun series of articles, check out: Move Over, Lava Song…Here Comes “The Java Song!”Unexpectedly Good Integrations In Words With Friends