SCOTT CHARNEY: Good morning. So how do you become the Chief Security Strategist of the Microsoft Corporation? Well, I was an English and History major, then I went to law school and my first job was an assistant district attorney in Bronx County, New York doing rapes and murders and robberies. And I got a call from this woman named Barbara Brennan. She was a former Bronx assistant. She had left and joined the Organized Crime and Racketeering section of the federal government. She was in San Francisco. She called me up and said, "How would you like to join the Organized Crime Section of the U.S. Department of Justice?" So here I am, a local prosecutor in Bronx County, South Bronx, looking at burned out buildings, and I go, "Sure, that sounds like a step up." She goes, "Okay, well, it's not in San Francisco, it's in our field office." I said, "Okay, where's that?" She goes, "Honolulu, Hawaii." (Laughter.) So I call my wife, I tell her about the offer. When I get home the whole place is packed. (Laughter.)
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