Marcus Alzona

Home on Sat. after Sophie's First Communion - #selfie w/Sophie & her brother & cousins (via iOS, not #GoogleGlass)

Thanks for joining me for this #2024Rewind - looking forward to a great 2025!

Interesting perspectives at the Adopting Bitcoin 2024 Conference (@AdoptingBTC) in El Salvador: Bitcoin Country: A Case Study for Winning by @StacyHerbert and @MaxKeiser of the National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) of El Salvador (@BitcoinOfficeSV) Bitcoin Mining & Nuclear Power with Small Modular Reactors (SMR's) by Ryan MacLeod (@NuclearBitcoinr) & Heidi MacLeod from the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (@CNL_LNC) Why Bitcoin is a Safe Haven in Hyperinflation by Brandon Keys (@bkeys1010) Bonus - ran into fellow @NoblisInc alumni Will Mitchell (@RandomProgramm2) at the #BTC conference check-in.... #2024Rewind

Drove my Foundation Series @Cybertruck from Maryland to Milwaukee for RNC 2024 - assisting the RNC IT team before, during, and after the Republican National Convention. When the worldwide @Crowdstrike cybersecurity system failure took down major airline operations the day after the convention, we used the #Cybertruck to drive RNC IT staff and equipment back from Milwaukee to DC (briefly stopping by @CarnegieMellon along the way). #RNC2024 #RNCinMKE @cmualumnihouse @Tesla @SCSatCMU @inicmu @CMU_Robotics #2024Rewind

Crypto at RNC 2024 - ran into @DavidSacks between sessions, and attended @Crypto_RNC with Former @CFTC Chairman Chris @GiancarloMKTS speaking on the progression from the Internet of Information -> Internet of Things (#IoT) -> Internet of Value (#Crypto): Distributed Ledger Technology & Cryptography #2024Rewind

The drive back to Washington DC from @MCGillU without our youngest…@SophieAlzona...was...longer... #EmptyNest #McGillParents #JeMeSouviens (but did enjoy meeting many people at #Quebec & Ontario @Tesla Superchargers curious about the @Cybertruck before its release in Canada)

Maryland to Quebec - drove @SophieAlzona up from DC in August for her freshman (U0/1) year at @McGillU in Montreal - only needed to charge the @Cybertruck twice to get to the Canadian border #McGill #McGillUniversity #EmptyNest

Honored to have served in the Maryland Delegation to the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee #RNC2024 #RNCinMKE @MDGOP #2024Rewind

Touradas á Corda - Running with the Bulls on Terceira Island, Azores (Açores) in 2024 #2024Rewind

Terceira Island, Azores (Açores) - volcanos, green seascapes, and natural pools within volcanic black rock - Algar do Carvão, Angra do Heroísmo, Piscinas Naturais Biscoitos - @VisitTerceira 2024 #2024Rewind

São Miguel Island, Azores (Açores) - calderas, seascapes, and volcanic greenery - Sete Cidades, Furnas, & Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo - @VisitSaoMiguel 2024 #2024Rewind

Walt Whitman Class of 2024 graduate @SophieAlzona receives her diploma - Constitution Hall, Washington D.C. #Bethesda #MoCo #MCPSGraduation @WaltWhitmanMCPS @WWHS_Bethesda #2024Rewind

Our Class of 2024 graduate @SophieAlzona in June at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. #Bethesda #MoCo #MCPSGraduation @WaltWhitmanMCPS @WWHS_Bethesda #2024Rewind

100% correct - at my former state government agency, we had three major legacy systems critical to our three public missions, all either tied-to or hosted-on a mainframe run by a completely different state agency, with all legacy system modernization project management and procurement under a third state agency. We managed to migrate one of the systems off the mainframe & to the cloud in early 2024, though it required huge amounts of time, effort, inter-agency (and inter-governmental) coordination, political capital, and career sacrifice. @DOGE

Thankful for the privilege of serving nearly two years as the deputy head of a Maryland state government agency, @MarylandDAT - in my final months of service in 2024, I was proud to have initiated and coordinated my agency's response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster, working with the Maryland Department of Emergency Management Secretary & the @MDMEMA team to provide regulatory relief for affected Maryland businesses & constituents, and assist in Maryland's @FEMA Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) #KeyBridge #KeyBridgeCollapse #2024Rewind

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) & @brian_armstrong on #Crypto policy, #AI deepfakes and censorship at the @Coinbase #UpdateTheSystem Summit in March #2024Rewind

Bourbon Tour 2024 Louisville - @WoodfordReserve @Angels_Envy @BulleitBourbon & @4RosesBourbon #2024Rewind

Came out to see (& livestream) @JamesAlzona in two tournaments with @CarnegieMellon’s @MrYukUltimate team in March #CMUAlumni #Tartans @MdTartans #2024Rewind