My career is a testament to John Tukey's statement: “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard.” I have been fortunate to work in academia, industry, and government; for a small business and a large bureaucracy; on collaborative projects with partners from many disciplines; on topics ranging from reliability to counterproliferation to atomic-scale characterization of materials. I will highlight some of the inflection points in my career and share lessons I have learned about the value of diverse practitioners with diverse perspectives collaborating on solutions.