Richard J. Bocchinfuso

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." – Oscar Wilde

About Me

"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." - Vincent Van Gogh

Rich Bocchinfuso

Passionate, intense and inquisitive father, husband, son, brother, boss, employee, friend, foe, techie, student, mammal, homo sapien, inhabitor of planet earth, etc...

Good Stuff

"Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion." - Ray Kurzweil

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard." - Margaret Mead

"Hard work never killed a man." - Scottish proverb & my dad

"I am from the planet of elegance." - Ron Carter

"AI is today a 30-year overnight success." - Pat Gelsinger

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” - John Wooden

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller

Skills & Competences

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." – Elbert Hubbard

First principle thinker
100%
Leadership
90%
Articulate communicator
90%
Goal oriented
100%
Persistence and determination
100%
Data driven risk taker
100%
Creativity
90%
Resiliency
100%
Active learner
100%
Polyglot
60%
Infrastructure
90%
Cloud
70%
DevOps
75%
Networking
60%
Big Data
50%

Blog

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

Ph.D. Journey Begins

One of the more difficult aspects of the Ph.D. application process was selecting an area of research. Below is an excerpt from my application essay outlining my proposed area of research. I have given thought to my potential area of research interest, and one area of computing that interests me significantly is sentiment analysis. Big […]

FIT – MGT5154 – Week 8

The submissions for this assignment are posts in the assignment’s discussion. Below are the discussion posts for Richard Bocchinfuso, or you can view the full discussion. from 8.3 Discussion: Case Discussion Board Questions Dec 12, 2018 9:38pm Richard Bocchinfuso What are five problems within the case study? Fractured culture with poor interdepartmental and/or interdisciplinary communication and relationships. […]

FIT – MGT5154 – Week 7

The submissions for this assignment are posts in the assignment’s discussion. Below are the discussion posts for Richard Bocchinfuso, or you can view the full discussion. from 7.3 Discussion: Case Discussion Board Questions Dec 6, 2018 9:57pm Richard Bocchinfuso Perform an analysis for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) on the decision to build DIA Internal Factors […]