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At home, Fuel\u2019s Network Specialist Dwight Elliott is like a lot of network professionals. His home is heavily wired, running on his advanced IT network infrastructure with a firewall that helps him protect his kids from the wilds of the internet. It\u2019s only when you learn about Dwight\u2019s childhood that you understand the contrast\u2014before he arrived in Canada at the age of 13, he grew up in a house in Lucea, Jamaica with no electricity.<\/p>\n

Dwight very clearly recalls arriving in Montreal in January, just after an ice storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou remember the scene from Cool Runnings<\/a> when the door opens? That was pretty much what happened,\u201d he laughs. \u201cGrowing up in Jamaica, we’d see images of kids playing in the snow\u2014they always look so happy. Coming in on the plane, we saw snow, and we were all so excited. There was an older Jamaican lady beside us and she went, \u2018Mm-hmm? You’re not going to like it once you feel it.\u2019 When the door opened at the airport, we just pulled back in. We wore like two sweaters, two pairs of pants\u2014we were well padded up!\u201d<\/p>\n

The difficult part of Dwight\u2019s life in Canada began not long after. He travelled here with his stepmother, but within a year he was placed in the foster care system. The man who is today a loving father of four grew up in a new country and culture without parents to turn to for support and encouragement.<\/p>\n

A lot of people in Dwight\u2019s position have been broken by the things they\u2019ve experienced. As he was finishing high school, he was simultaneously working 40 hours a week. A guidance counsellor from the foster care system told him, \u201cEverybody that has ever been in your position, they fail and they drop out of school. They’ve never finish. You’re going to fail also, you’re going to drop out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remembering that today, Dwight has pride in his voice. \u201cI’m not one to let anybody determine my future. At the end of the year, I brought him my Relev\u00e9 des Notes [report card] and said, \u2018What\u2019s up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Dwight was an athlete who received offers from colleges, but he had nobody to turn to for advice, and didn\u2019t know what to choose. After he turned 18, he left the foster system and began thinking about how to make the most of his career path. That\u2019s how he found himself studying Computing and Network Support.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething that I’ve always loved doing is just fixing electronics, working with electronics\u2014learning new stuff about anything electronic,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Soon after school, Dwight graduated from an entry-level job and moved on to a corporation in a more scientific-environment.<\/p>\n

He joined the company as a Systems Specialist, and by the time he left to join Fuel in 2016 he had worked his way up to Regional I.T. Manager, overseeing multiple labs and 500 users. But he wanted to keep growing as a professional. He found a mentor in his manager Mehdi Gafsi, who encourages Dwight to think in business terms and prioritizes communication.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere I\u2019m coming from,\u201d Dwight says, \u201cthere wasn\u2019t really communication. The work was just in my lap. Here, we sit down and talk about it. Mehdi\u2019s been helping me to learn more about business\u2014to think about other things than just the technical side of things. He\u2019s getting me involved in deeper projects and just growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

They talk often about plans to upgrade infrastructure, and Dwight says he appreciates that Mehdi lets him open up and show what he knows.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust giving my insight and my input\u2014that\u2019s something where before, it wasn\u2019t like that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

While he\u2019s growing himself, Dwight is raising three daughters and a son, who range in ages from two to ten years old. He\u2019s very involved in his kids\u2019 lives, and protective of them as they reach the age of being able to use the internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe schools right now, they do a lot of projects and a lot of research online,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I want to allow my daughter to do her research without fear of her seeing content that she shouldn’t see. I also want to control the videos that they see on YouTube, and just the overall content that’s delivered to their computers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dwight has become a resource for his children\u2019s teachers, explaining to them how to keep their kids secure using the technology and software at hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talk to the teachers to make sure they\u2019re teaching them security first,\u201d he says. \u201cI teach my kids about search engines, but I just want to make sure the teachers are following up.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is all a long way from the days when Dwight would wake up in a house without plumbing or lights, and get water from a bucket to bathe before school, but it comes naturally to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, IT is not just a job,\u201d Dwight says. \u201cThis is something I enjoy, not just something that I do for a living.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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